Sri Lanka dismisses the law suit in US against President as a ploy for media attention

Sri Lanka today dismissed a media report that said Tamil activists in the United States had filed a law suit against the President Mahinda Rajapaksa as an attempt to grab media attention.

Pro-LTTE Tamil activists have filed a lawsuit in the United States against the President seeking $ 30 million in damages over alleged extra judicial killings.

Bruce Fein, a former deputy attorney general of the US during Reagan administration has filed the suit on behalf of three plaintiffs under a 1991 act that allows for action in the United States against foreign officials over torture and extrajudicial killings, AFP reported.

Director of President's Media and Spokesman Bandula Jayasekara has told the local TV Ada Derana, that the government has no time to respond to these forces who are trying for media attention.

"We have no time for mercenaries funded by LTTE terrorists who just want media attention," Ada Derana quoted Jayasekara.

Sri Lankan President was in the United States for a week on a private visit. Right groups and pro-LTTE Tamil diaspora urged the U.S. government to bring charges against the President on alleged war crimes.