opinion". Eyewitness accounts from members of the Sri Lankan Army In 2012, Ravindra Watudura Bandanage a former member of the Sri Lankan Army admitted that the Sri Lankan Government tortured Tamil civilians during the war. Bandanage also admitted to being ordered to place a bomb at the home of M. K. Shivajilingam a member of the Sri Lankan Parliament. During this Shivajilingam time was an outspoken critic of the government and was aligned with the opposition the Tamil National Alliance. Bandanage refused to go through with any of these orders and admitted to seeing members of the Sri Lankan army torturing, beating and raping Tamil civilians. These new allegations against the Sri Lankan army are "raising new questions about military abuses committed during the island nation's long civil war." Eyewitness accounts from members of the LTTE Two top LTTE leaders - Daya Master, the former media coordinator, and George Master, official interpreter of a LTTE strategist, who surrendered to the Sri Lankan Army admitted that Tamil Tigers were holding civilians hostage and also killed civilians who were trying to escape. George Master said "LTTE stopped people from leaving, but the strong managed to escape. The LTTE killed many fleeing civilians". Daya Master recounted the crimes committed by LTTE as follows: Commentary by notable personalities/entities Arundhati Roy In an opinion piece, once again in The Guardian (1 April 2009), Arundhati Roy made a plea for international attention to what she called a possible government-sponsored genocide of Tamils in Sri Lanka. She cited reports of camps into which Tamils were being herded as part of what she described as "a brazen, openly racist war". She also mentioned that the "Government of Sri Lanka is on the verge of committing what could end up being genocide" and described the Sri Lankan IDP camps where Tamil civilians are being held as concentration camps. A Sinhalese writer Ru Freeman called Roy's remarks "ill-informed and hypocritical" and criticized her for "whitewashing the atrocities of the LTTE". Roy has said of such accusations: "I cannot admire those whose vision can only accommodate justice for their own and not for everybody. However I do believe that the LTTE and its fetish for violence was cultured in the crucible of monstrous, racist, injustice that the Sri Lankan government and to a great extent Sinhala society visited on the Tamil people for decades." Claude Heller Claude Heller, Mexico's Ambassador to