In a statement, the Tamil Nadu legislator, quoting the leaked report of the UN Expert Panel, has said that the report was very clear and lists out the war crimes of the Sri Lankan government.
"The Indian Government, on its part, should initiate immediate steps to make Rajapaksa and his cronies stand trial in the International Court of Justice for his war crimes," the PTI news agency quoted Jayalalitha.
She has said that the Sri Lankan security forces 'had shelled no fire zones and hospitals, deprived humanitarian aid in the form of food supply and medicine', a claim pro-LTTE groups have constantly stated despite the government claims to the contrary.
The AIADMK chief has flayed her opponent in the State legislature DMK president M. Karunanidhi for his ineffective fast in 2009 demanding the Sri Lankan government to stop the offensive and declare a ceasefire.
However, she has failed to point out the accusations noted in the report against the terrorist group LTTE.
The Panel's report has said that LTTE refused civilians permission to leave and used them as hostages to form a human buffer between themselves and the advancing Sri Lanka Army.
"Many civilians were sacrificed on the altar of the LTTE cause and its efforts to preserve its senior leadership," the Panel's report said.
"It implemented a policy of forced recruitment throughout the war, but in the final stages greatly intensified its recruitment of people of all ages, including children as young as fourteen," it said.
The Sri Lankan government rejected the UN report saying it is fundamentally flawed in many respects.
The government Thursday asked the UN not to make the report public as it would irreparably damage the country's reconciliation process.
The UN however, said yesterday that it would publish the report 'in full without any amendment' along with a statement from the UN Secretary-General that would discuss the next steps.
The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon appointed the three-member panel to advise him on Sri Lanka's accountability during the last phase of the war that effectively crushed the Tamil Tiger terrorist outfit Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in May 2009.
The Panel last week handed over its report to the UNSG which he shared with the Sri Lankan government before being made it public. However parts of the report had been leaked to the Sri Lankan daily The Island.
Sri Lankans have united in rejecting the Panel's report saying that it has only voiced the accounts of pro-LTTE diaspora and human rights groups that are conspiring to tarnish the country's image and halt the post-war development and reconciliation among the communities.
The government has called the Sri Lankan to show their solidarity against the UN report at the May Day rallies this year.
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