Sri Lanka on Wednesday blamed the former Indian administration for the war which dragged for 30 years on the island.

The Sri Lankan government information department quoted Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa as telling the local media that India could never absolve itself of the responsibility for creating terrorism in Sri Lanka.

The former Indian Permanent Representative to the United Nations Hardeep Singh Puri had called for an investigation into what he called specific allegations of war crimes during the last 100 days of military operations in Sri Lanka.

Rajapaksa however said those demanding accountability on Sri Lanka's part for alleged atrocities committed during the last 100 days of the conflict were silent on the origin of terrorism in Sri Lanka.

He said that Puri should realize that the Indian intervention in Sri Lanka had caused a major regional crisis, when Indian trained Sri Lankan terrorists raided the Maldives in early November 1988.

Rajapaksa said the international community should consider a comprehensive investigation into the issue beginning with the Indian intervention.

The government information department quoted the defense secretary as saying that some interested parties were reluctant to acknowledge the fact that Sri Lanka was a much better place today without the Tamil Tiger rebels.

The Sri Lankan military defeated the rebels in May 2009 after 30 years of war. India had made several attempts to bring the rebels to the negotiating table during the conflict. However, at the same time there were reports that the rebels were being trained in southern India, a Tamil-dominant part of the country.