Top UN diplomat to be expelled? (and he is a Canadian!)

This is how far the west goes to tarnish the name for Sri Lanka. It's not just the BBC, Al Jazeera, HRW and other LTTER friendly NGOs anymore that adds to the Tamilnet rumour mill, but also Un diplomats. Worse in this case is that he is a Canadian... Shows how far some Canadians have been duped by the rich LTTE operatives. - Sinhaya

The authorities are said to be in a dilemma as to whether they should expel UN Resident Representative here Neil Buhne, after it came to light that his office had deliberately leaked unauthenticated casualty figures of IDPs to a selected group of Western embassies in Colombo as verified figures, which were later picked by wire services and splashed across the world to the detriment of Sri Lanka.

These figures claiming that Army fire had killed nearly 6,500 IDPs since January and injured more than double that figure were even raised by visiting French and British Foreign Ministers early this week.

On Thursday, Buhne, a Canadian was summoned to the Foreign Ministry and questioned by Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama in the presence of French and British Ambassadors how he had authenticated such figures, whereupon which he is said to have blurted out that those figures were provided by two senior government doctors serving in the LTTE controlled areas.
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