The immediate arrest of former Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa has been sought from Singapore by a rights organisation which has said that a criminal complaint filed by it will now give the country’s attorney general “a unique opportunity” to do so.
The International Truth and Justice Project (ITJP), in a 63-page-long complaint, accused Mr Rajapaksa of committing war crimes during the country’s decades-long civil war and of breaching the Geneva Conventions in 2009 when he was the defence minister.
