Sri Lanka Army is ready for any kind of investigation to defend its soldiers against allegations of grave human rights abuses at the end of the island nation's decades-long civil war against the LTTE.
Sri Lanka Army along with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) was accused of war crimes during the final phase of the military conflict that ended in 2009 with the killing of LTTE supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran.
International rights groups accuse the military of killing 40,000 Tamil civilians in the final months of the war. The government of the time said not one civilian was killed.
"We have no fear to face any investigation because we have not done any crimes," Army chief Lieutenant General Mahesh Senanayake told reporters on Sunday in the southern town of Weligama.
Senanayake said in any war there will be civilian casualties.
"That is the hard truth. No war can be done without it. This does not mean we have done that during the war."
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