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| Saturday, 6 December 2003 |
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Commission hands over Report to President The Report of the Presidential Commission investigating into the Police raid on an Army Safe House in the Millennium City, Athurugiriya on January 2, 2003 was handed over to President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga yesterday by the Commission's Chairman D. Jayawickrema. A team of Police Officers led by ASP Kulasirti Udugampola conducted the raid. Simultaneously with the raid unsubstantiated charges were levelled at the Army Officers residing at the premises that they were conspiring to assassinate the Prime Minister. The raid not only embarrassed the Army and compromised national security, it also exposed several informants collaborating with a Special Army's Intelligence Unit and disclosed the names of several Army personnel involved in the intelligence operations, thus exposing them to grave risks. Unidentified gunmen believed to be members of an LTTE covert operations group subsequently killed several dozen informants. Several aggrieved Army Officers have filled fundamental rights petitions in the Supreme Court claiming that they were arrested and detained unlawfully. |
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