PCoI report on April Attacks handed over to President
PCoI report on April Attacks handed over to President
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Colombo (News 1st); The final report of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry appointed to probe the 2019 April 21st Attacks was handed over to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Monday (01).
The Presidential Commission of Inquiry concluded the recording of evidence in late January 2021.
The Presidential Commission of Inquiry submitted its first interim report on the 20th of December 2019 and the second interim report on the 02nd of March 2020.
The five-member Presidential Commission of Inquiry was appointed via an Extraordinary Gazette by then-President Maithripala Sirisena on the 22nd of September 2019.
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Posted on December 29th, 2020
By Rohana R. Wasala
According
to a news item carried in The Island/December 28, 2020, Russian Ambassador in
Colombo Yuri Materiy forewarned Sri Lanka’s Minister of Public Security Retired
Rear Admiral Sarath Weerasekera that extremist Islamic terrorist organizations
may channel funds to their Lankan counterparts on the pretext of extending
COVID-19 aid. ‘In response the Minister said that after the war a new strategy
had been formulated by the then Sri Lankan government to increase the
intelligence battalions from 3-7 and deported nearly 160 madrasa scholar
leaders who under the guise of religious studies were spreading hate and