Posted on February 25th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana
The Attorney General has received Volume 01 of the report of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) that investigated the Easter Sunday terror attacks.
The AG’s coordinating officer said that Volume 01 of the report was received today from the Secretary to the President.
However, the Attorney General has requested the President’s Secretary to submit all proceedings, documents and materials (Volumes 2-5) of the commission to the Attorney General’s Department, she said.
The President’s Media Division also confirmed that the report was officially handed over by the Director General, Legal Affairs of the Presidential Secretariat Hariguptha Rohanadheera at the Attorney General’s Department today (25).
Cancelling infra projects with India is a serious mistake: Former Sri Lankan PM Ranil Wickremesinghe
Even China canât fill that gap up and the Indians are going to share the port capacity and at some stage we will work together, he said.
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Updated: Feb 25, 2021, 12:43 PM IST
The Sri Lankan government is going back on agreements signed with India, Japan and the US and that s a serious mistake, former Prime Minister of Sri Lanka Ranil Wickremesinghe has said.
In an exclusive interview with WION s Executive Editor Palki Sharma, Wickremesinghe spoke about Colombo s recent decisions on aid and infra projects with India, Japan and the US vis a vis the deals with China.
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As the UN Human Rights Council begins its first meeting of 2021 in Geneva, high on its crowded agenda will be to decide whether to adopt a new resolution that maintains international oversight over Sri Lanka. The present one, adopted in 2015 but now expiring, won support from the Sri Lankan government of the time, which agreed to address the legacy of the country’s brutal civil war and its conclusion in a wave of atrocities in 2009. But Sri Lanka’s current government, led by the same nationalist politicians and generals who were in office at the war’s end, has rejected the truth and accountability agenda it inherited and is working hard to end the Council’s engagement. With options for truth and justice for wartime atrocities closed for now within Sri Lanka, the Council should adopt a new resolution that underscores the international interest in accountability. At the same time, the accountability agenda, which has dominated international discussions about post-war Sri Lanka