The former army commander and suspected war criminal Lt Gen Jagath Jayasuriya is thought to have been denied a visa to enter the United States for a private trip, the Daily Mirror reports.
The visa application is said to have been submitted in May for the trip at the end of June, but while Mr Jayasuriya’s wife’s passport was returned by the embassy, the former Chief of Defence Staff’s passport had still not been returned.
When contacted by the Daily Mirror, a spokesperson for the US embassy in Colombo said that as a matter of policy, they cannot comment on individual cases. “That’s all we have to say at this moment,” he said.
Mr Jayasuriya, who is thought to have overseen gross violations of international humanitarian law, was recently appointed as the ambassador to Brazil by the Sri Lankan government.
Source: Tamil Guardian
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