Sri Lanka has suspended the Minister Counsellor (Defence) of the High Commission in London with immediate effect after a video surfaced on social media, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said today.
The video shows Defence Attaché Brigadier Priyanka Fernando miming a throat slitting gesture towards a group of protesters who had gathered outside Sri Lanka’s diplomatic mission in London.
In a statement, the Foreign Affairs Ministry said that the authorities in Sri Lanka have taken serious note of the video circulating on social media and that the relevant authorities in Sri Lanka including the Sri Lanka Army will initiate inquiries on the incident immediately.
British Parliamentarians Joan Ryan and Siobhain McDonagh had already lodged a formal complaint with UK's Secretary of State Boris Johnson calling to “withdraw Brigadier Priyanka Fernando’s diplomatic papers and expel him” from the United Kingdom after a video surfaced that portrays the Defence Attaché miming throat-slitting gestures to Tamils protesting outside the Sri Lankan High Commission in London.
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