DOUGLAS SAYS HE WILL TAKE LLRC TO COURT!

 

• NAME DAMAGED, HE SAYS
• ‘LLRC report otherwise ok’

By Ranga Jayasuriya

EPDP leader and minister  Douglas Devananda says he will go to court against the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) that has raised charges in the report that the EPDP is engaged in abductions in the north.
"I am going to court. It is affecting my name. There is an ulterior motive and that is why before the report was submitted to Parliament it was leaked to certain media organizations," he said in an interview with LAKBIMAnEWS.

"While I endorse the other recommendations I will go to court over allegations levelled against the EPDP."
He said that the Commission had misquoted his submissions made at the Commission hearings, and that there is a translation error too.
For its part, the Commission observes that it was ‘Constrained to observe the attitude manifested by the leadership of the TMVP and EPDP in their explanations to provide little or no consolation to the aggrieved parties, and tends to mitigate any meaningful reconciliation process.’
The EPDP leader shot back saying, "Though this Commission was appointed by our government, I feel there are ulterior  motives."

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There was no reason to expect much from the report of the LLRC as this commission had no mandate to investigate and to file a report on the basis of investigations. It was a mere commission of gathering some views but even in that the people who were most affected, that is those who are from the north and the east, did not have genuine freedom to give a narrative of what they knew about what had happened to them and those known to them.       Full Story>>>