“t travel to the United States because of alleged war crimes charges against him. Rajapaksa however visited the United States in 2016 and two Tamil groups urged the United States government to arrest and prosecute him. The Sirisena-Wickremesinghe government, which had come to power after defeating Mahinda Rajapaksa in 2015, rejected the calls for his arrest. According to a U.S. diplomatic cable later made public by WikiLeaks, Major General Prasad Samarasinghe, then the Army”
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