The Moscow Trial Was Fair wrote the British lawyer and MP Dennis Pritt, who was subsequently awarded the International Stalin Peace prize, having been expelled from the Labour party in the interim for backing the Soviet invasion of Finland. The government of Sri Lanka must be hoping for a similarly credulous reaction to its decision last week to parade the five doctors who witnessed the bloody climax of the country's civil war in May and now claim that they deliberately overestimated the number of civilian casualties. Since the government blocked access to the conflict zone by all independent observers, the doctors were one of the few sources of first-hand information at its height.
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