US Report: Government response after Committee findings
Chaminda Perera
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Minister
Mahinda Samarasinghe |
President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday appointed a high profile
committee headed by President Counsel D.S. Wijesinghe to look into the
US State Department report on Incidents During the Recent Conflict in
Sri Lanka, Disaster Management and Human Rights Minister Mahinda
Samarasinghe said.
Minister Samarasinghe said the Government will respond to the US
State Department report based on the report of this impartial committee.
The committee report is expected to be presented to the President before
December 31. The Minister was addressing a special press briefing at the
Presidential Secretariat yesterday.
The Minister stressed that the Government has nothing to hide and
this impartial committee has been empowered to look into the allegations
levelled in the Congress report.
This committee comprises President’s Counsels Nihal Jayamanna, C.R.
De Silva, Attorney at Law Mano Ramanathan and Jezima Ismail.
The committee has been empowered to obtain any information from
government institutions or officials pertaining to the incidents in the
Congress report.
The Minister said the Committee will study the incidents outlined in
the US State Department report closely and the Government will respond
to the US report based on the outcome of the Committee.
He said the Committee has been given full freedom to impartially
investigate these incidents and make their observations before December
31. “The image of the country is more important. We as a Government are
committed to protect the image of the country,” he said. |
