"Army leadership was given neither by me nor my elder brother ... but by the army commander at that time" -- Gotabhaya (video)

"Army leadership was given neither by me nor my elder brother ... but by the army commander at that time" -- Gotabhaya (video)

On the occasion when presidential candidate Mr. Gotabhaya of Sri Lanka Podu Jana Peramuna arrived at Colombo Shangri-La hotel for a media discussion, corespondent of India's Hindu newspaper Meera Shriniwasan posed the question, "During the period when the war to which you gave leadership was in operation ... what happened to the LTTE who surrendered or were taken into custody by the army?"  On that occasion he responded with a smile saying that it is not he who gave
leadership to the army. 

Yet again the correspondent twisted the same question and said, "In that case if it is your brother Mahinda Rajapaksa who gave leadership to the army ... what then is the situation?" At that point what Mr. Gotabhaya Rajapaksa said was that it is not he nor his brother who gave leadership to the war ... but such leadership was given by the commander of the army at that time; that is Sarath Fonseka.