SRI LANKA: GRUESOME WELIKADA MASSACRE STINKS OF COVER-UPS !

By Niranjala Ariyawansha.-03/04/2016

In a shocking revelation, the Committee of Inquiry into the Prison Incident (CIPI), appointed to investigate the gruesome Welikada Prison incident, finds that what occurred on 9 November 2012 was in gross violation of widely accepted basic Human Rights of the prisoners.

Thus, it recommends, based on the material that surfaced during its sittings, the necessity to conduct a fresh independent criminal investigation, forthwith, in respect of the allegations of murders, with a view to ascertaining the truth and the institution of criminal proceedings of offenders where sufficient evidence can be established.
The committee was headed by Gamini Nambuwasam, retired High Court Judge, Asoka Wijetilleke, former Senior Deputy Inspector General of Police and S.K.Liyanage, retired Ministry Additional Secretary of the Sri Lanka Administrative Service. The prosecutor was Janaka Bandara, Senior State Counsel of Attorney General’s Department.

However, the recommendations made in the completed report by the Committee which was headed by retired High Court Judge, Gamini Nambuwasam are yet to be implemented even though the report was handed over to Minister of Justice Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe in June 2015.

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