Posted on March 17th, 2021 By shenali Waduge The Mshinda Rajapakse government sought the legal opinion of Prof D M Crane and Sir Desmond de Silva on the legal issues pertaining to the use of human shields and hostage taking by the LTTE. Their legal opinion sheds to pieces the findings of the PoE and the OISL as well as the OHCHR Heads reports and their insistence on war crimes tribunals against Sri Lanka. It is a good wake up call for all parties to realize that the nonsense of dramatic propaganda must stop and that the UN & UNHRC are duty-bound to look at the legal aspects of a non-international armed conflict before concluding that war crimes have been committed by a sovereign state as is already seen by the biased statements coming out of the mouth of the OHCHR head and his reports.