Mon, Apr 15, 2013, 09:59 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.
Apr 15, Colombo: Sri Lanka Marxist party Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) says that the party is currently engaged in gathering information about the Matale mass grave and that it would be shared with an independent judicial process. The party states that it would not allow the matter of the Matale mass grave to be swept under the carpet.
JVP parliamentary group leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake has said that the party would not go before the commission of inquiry proposed by the President.
He has observed that there was no need for an inquiry since the preliminary investigations have been carried out and the time period of the grave and the fact that the persons buried had been subjected to torture have been confirmed by experts.
"What is now needed is a proper judicial process to punish the persons responsible for the mass killing," Dissanayake has said.
He has added that several presidential commissions of inquiry had been appointed earlier to probe the murders during the 1988-1989 period, but the reports were discarded without action being taken.
According to the JVP MP, if not an independent judicial process, priority should be given to the mass grave in the current judicial process.