it is reported Gen Ponseka is on the run , following calls by international community to try ponseka for war crimes. ponseka is to testify today before the US home security.
it is not clear if mahin air had rescued him. some report suggested some monks have went to see him , but it is still not clear if he borrowed the scarfs of monks and worn that and escape the detection.
one analyst suggested that he may have been given few passports with Different names such as kokila gunawardana.( a passport given to karuna and sent to UK to commit crimes).
one thing is so clear ponseka days are numbered , since ponseka was asked to testify on gotabaiya, ponseka may be finshed by gotabaya.
SL army chief skips US quiz
Last Updated : 2009-11-04 7:01 AM
AFP
Sri Lanka`s military commander, General
Sarath Fonseka, left the
United States ahead of possible questioning over alleged war crimes committed during the defeat of the island`s Tamil rebels, a legislator said Wednesday.
AFP
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka`s military commander left the United States ahead of possible questioning over alleged war crimes committed during the defeat of the island`s Tamil rebels, a legislator said Wednesday.
General Sarath Fonseka headed back to Sri Lanka without facing questioning by the Department of Homeland Security later in the day, Samantha Vidyaratne told parliament.
`In the same way this brave soldier rid the country of terrorism, he is now on his way home without betraying the nation,` Vidyaratne said.
Fonseka holds US permanent residency and travelled to the US last week to visit his daughters in Oklahoma.
Sri Lanka said on Monday that it feared US authorities were trying to force Fonseka to provide evidence against Defence Secretary
Gotabhaya Rajapakse over the allegations of human rights violations.
The defence secretary, who holds US citizenship, is the younger brother of President
Mahinda Rajapakse.
Sri Lankan troops in May killed the leaders of the Tamil Tigers, ending one of Asia`s longest-running and bloodiest insurgencies that aimed to create a separate homeland for the island`s Tamil minority.
A US State Department report presented to Congress last month charged that both the government and Tamil Tigers committed serious human rights violations in the final months of the conflict.
The UN reported that more than 7,000 civilians may have perished in the fighting during this year. The Sri Lankan government contends that no civilians were killed by its troops.