When asked about a notion among some people that the military would be sacrificed through these measures, the Prime Minister said yesterday said the government would not sacrifice anybody.

When asked whether the then president Mahinda Rajapaksa or the then defence secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa would be sacrificed, the Prime Minister in a lighter vein said Mangala Samaraweera and Wijeyadasa Rajapaksha, both of whom were from the South were involved in the UNHRC process and that people from the South would not sacrifice others from South. “Those from the South will look after the Southerners,” he said with a smile.