America’s strategic goals notwithstanding, like India, the US stood by Rajapaksa and helped him to eliminate the Tamil Tiger scourge. Both Delhi and Washington were guided by the dangers posed by terrorism irrespective of its hues to peace and stability. It is this backing of theirs to Vanni War that gives them the moral right to question the actions of Rajapaksa regime on the war front with massive evidence surfacing about human rights abuses by the Sri Lanka army.
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