Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa gestures as he speaks during a news conference at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Colombo November 17, 2013. REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's president denounced Washington's plan to move a U.N. human rights resolution against the island nation on Friday, comparing the U.S. move over alleged war crimes to a professional boxer taking on a schoolboy.
"There should not have been a resolution at all," Mahinda Rajapaksa said in his first news conference with the foreign media in Colombo for more than three years. "If they have evidence they should have given (it) to us."
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