Foreign Office shredding history 'smacks of a lack of transparency'
Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
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THE Foreign Office is claiming that files it destroyed about Britain’s role in Sri Lanka’s civil war may have been “ephemeral.”
Minister for Asia Mark Field made the excuse after Labour’s Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi questioned him in Parliament over recent revelations in the Morning Star.
Last month, we exposed how diplomats had shredded hundreds of files from the start of a Tamil uprising in Sri Lanka, dating back to the 1970s and ’80s.
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