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| Prime Minister D. M Jayaratna |
Sri Lanka Prime Minister D. M Jayaratna says that the government has launched a probe on recently emerged photographs that
are said to show a massacre of Tamils during the country's civil war.
Some of the pictures apparently show the bloodstained bodies of bound and blindfolded young people.
"We have already appointed a team to look into the matter," sadi Mr. Jayaratna.
The prime minster told the BBC Sinhala service that the government has received reliable information that members of the Tamil
Diaspora who benefited from the Tamil Tigers are spreading disinformation to discredit the government.
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Global Tamil Forum (GTF), a group which includes former supporters of the separatist insurgents, released the images as the
Sri Lankan foreign minister visited London.
Minister GL Peiris on Tuesday rejected the photograps saying that they were a bid by rebel sympathisers to tarnish Sri Lanka's
image.
Many of the photos, whose veracity cannot be verified, were too graphic to be published.
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