Group seeks ex-Sri Lankan president’s arrest in Singapore

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI
Associated Press

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A human rights group says it has filed a criminal complaint with Singapore’s attorney general to seek the arrest of Sri Lanka’s former president for alleged war crimes during his country’s civil war. Gotabaya Rajapaksa was ousted from office over his country’s economic collapse and fled to Singapore. He was defense secretary during Sri Lanka’s civil war, which ended in 2009. The International Truth and Justice Project said Sunday its lawyers filed the complaint requesting Rajapaksa’s immediate arrest. The complaint says grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions during the war were subject to domestic prosecution in Singapore under universal jurisdiction.