The Sri Lankan Model: Eliminating Terrorism, Cherishing Civilians (Part 2)

Meanwhile what are the allegations which we have to endure, allegations based not on evidence but on shrill pronouncements, accompanied at predictable moments by the release of strange pictures with no discernible parentage? Essentially we are accused of having conducted a war without witnesses, in the course of which thousands of civilians were killed. Whenever any of these allegations is disproved, far from there being an apology or even an acknowledgment of a mistake, immediately the goalposts are shifted, the bottom line being that the alligators, if I might thus name those predatory creatures, will not be satisfied unless we allow an external inquiry, which they claim will be independent and impartial, qualities beyond the capabilities of mere natives.