Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa rejects demand for probe into war crimes

Defiant in the face of pressure over alleged rights violations during the war against the LTTE, President Mahinda Rajapaksa today rejected British Prime Minister David Cameron's demand for an international inquiry and said Sri Lanka must be trusted to conduct its own probe. "It is his view. This is a democracy. He can say whatever he wants. People living in glass houses must not throw stone at others," Rajapaksa told a news conference on the sidelines of the CHOGM summit hours after Cameron gave Sri Lanka an ultimatum to address the allegations of war crimes by March. (Read more)