The government, responding to the lawsuit which has been filed by US-based Tamil activists to sue President Mahinda Rajapaksa, said it dismissed the allegations and it is an attempt by mercenaries funded by the LTTE terrorists for publicity stunt.
"We have no time for mercenaries funded by the LTTE who want media attention," Presidential Spokesman Bandula Jayasekera said.
Bruce Fein, a Washington lawyer has filed the suit on behalf of activists from the Tamil diaspora under a 1991 act that allows for action in the United States against foreign officials over torture and extrajudicial killings when the Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse was in United States last week on a private visit.
Sri Lanka has denied any civilian deaths during the last stages of the war and has rejected calls for an international probe. The lawsuit seeks $30 million on behalf of three plaintiffs who said their relatives were killed in three incidents, including the Sri Lankan army's offensive in 2009 against the LTTE