Kumar Gunaratnam, General Secretary of the Frontline Socialist Party, says that the National People’s Power Government is capable of presenting the Batalanda Report to Parliament and making it an official report, and that the government has the majority to do so.

He stated this at a media conference held by the party in Colombo yesterday (March10).

He also said that the facts presented in the interview conducted between Al Jazeera and former President Ranil Wickremesinghe show that he is fulfilling the responsibility of a state that is repressive of the people.

The Chief Secretary further commented,

Even when the BBC reporter showed the Batalanda report and asked, former President Ranil said that this is not an official report. It has not been passed in Parliament.

He said, if the victims want justice, if the parents of the missing want justice, then justice must be done in all cases. According to the Batalanda report, Douglas Peiris is the first person to be promoted to the rank of Assistant Superintendent of Police, after passing the one hundred and fifty. He is a person who failed the Assistant Superintendent of Police examination. He worked to remove some activists of the JVP. This removal is being discussed in the commission. Removal means murder. Wijeydasa Liyanarachchi is a famous speaker of the JVP. A lawyer. He was abducted and disappeared in 1988. We only know the details of his murder. “This report clearly states that he was brought to Colombo on the orders of Ranil Wickremesinghe.”

Kumar Gunaratnam stated that no matter how much a government is provoked, it cannot act illegally, nor can it act in violation of the Constitution.