Some of those escaping LTTE came without clothes on: Maj. Gen. Shavendra Silva White Flag Trial-at-Bar

Sri Lanka s Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Maj. Gen. Shavendra Silva on Monday (Nov. 15) said that some of those who surrendered to the advancing troops on the Vanni east front had come running even without clothes on.The former General Officer Commanding (GOC) of the Task Force I/58 Division said that people had approached troops waiving their hands. Among them had been LTTE cadres, both men and women and the Army had accommodated all of them regardless of whether they carried white or black flags.Maj. Gen. Silva was responding to a query by prosecutor Deputy Solicitor General Wasantha Nawaratna Bandara before the Colombo High Court Trial-at-Bar hearing the White Flag case, in which former Army Commander Lt. Gen. Sarath Fonseka has been indicted by the Attorney General on a charge of falsely accusing Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa of war crimes. Source by: lanka newspapers.com