External Affairs Ministry to make inquiry of US Embassy over tweet
January 10, 2014 10:38 am
The External
Affairs Ministry stated that it will make an inquiry from the US Embassy in Sri
Lanka today (January 10) regarding the internet reports that caused controversy
last evening.
The US Embassy in Colombo claimed in a tweet yesterday(January 9) that two top US Ambassadors had visited the site of the “killing of hundreds of families by army shelling” in January 2009.
US
Ambassador to Sri Lanka Michele Sison and US Ambassador for Global Criminal
Justice Stephen Rapp are engaged in a visit to the North of Sri Lanka where
they also visited St. Anthany’s Ground.
The
official twitter account of the US Embassy to Sri Lanka claimed in a tweet that
this was the site of the “Jan 2009 killing of hundreds of families by army
shelling” which was accompanied by a photograph of the two Ambassadors.
Tweet –
“St Anthany’s Ground - site of Jan 2009 killing of hundreds of families by army
shelling”
Speaking
to Ada Derana, Juliana Spaven, the Information Officer for the US Embassy in
Sri Lanka, confirmed that the tweet was sent on an official capacity while
adding however that there is no new additional evidence to back the claim.
The two
Ambassadors are engaged in a five-day visit to the North where they are
scheduled to meet several politicians and religious leaders.
The
media have not been allowed to cover most of these meetings.
