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| Call for Tsunami Presidential Commission of Inquiry UPFA Member of Parliament, President's Counsel Wijeyadasa Rajapakse has appealed to President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga to appoint a Commission of Inquiry consisting of competent members to probe if there were any lapses or omissions on the part of the relevant authorities for failing to communicate to the people of coastal Sri Lanka an advance warning of the tsunami disaster. This is in view of relevant websites carrying warning messages to all nations from the tsunami warning centre in Honolulu and also in view of the claims that efforts to contact relevant authorities in Sri Lanka by them, had failed since there was no response at this end. In a letter addressed to the President, Rajapakse calls for the Commission to probe inter alia whether the Geological Survey and Mines Bureau had failed in its duties in not informing people in advance about the impending tsunami waves which claimed thousands of lives. The Commission should also investigate whether the local Met. Department had failed in its duties by not issuing an early warning of the tsunami. He also wants the Commission to ascertain whether the Tsunami Warning Centre in Honolulu, Pacific Command Naval Base and other relevant authorities have failed and/or omitted to inform the Indian Ocean nations about the tsunami in advance while they were having all material at their disposal. The MP requests that the Commission be appointed as a matter of priority so that the country could be geared to prevent or minimise damage in future diasters. |
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