TNA welcomes Moon Panel report

 

April 18, 2011, 9:39 pm

The Tamil National Alliance has welcomed the findings and recommendations by the advisory panel on Sri Lanka appointed by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. It says it observes that the ‘Report of the Advisory Panel to the UNSG confirms the truth of what happened to the unarmed Tamil civilians in the course of the conduct of the recently concluded war and is an irrefutable confirmation of the accounts of the events as reported by us to Parliament as and when they occurred’.

Full text of the TNA statement signed by R. Sampanthan Parliamentary Group Leader Tamil National Alliance:

We have read the disclosure made by the media, said to be the Executive Summary of the Report submitted by the Advisory Panel to the United Nations Secretary General (UNSG).

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Ethnic Cleansing in Sri Lankan Armed Forces: Srimavo Bandaranaike’s Legacy

Ilankai Tamil Sangam- Association of Tamils of Sri Lanka in the USA

by Sachi Sri Kantha, April 18, 2011

’Have a look at the 54 Sinhalese ‘State Officers appointed by the President who were recruited in April and July 1971. Three names are recognizable. Rank number 262 N. Mallawarachchi (born 1951), who served as the SL army chief of staff in 2005. Rank number 269 N.G.[Nandasena Gotabhaya] Rajapaksa (born 1949), who is the presidential sibling. Rank number 290 P[Parami] H.B. Kulatunga (born 1951), who was assassinated in 2006, while holding the No.3 rank in the army. Their academic qualifications, when they were recruited were GCE (Ordinary Level), i.e., 10 years of schooling. The fact that Gotabhaya Rajapaksa commenced his army service on April 26, 1971 (at the 

 ageof 21 years and 10 months, and merely three weeks after the commencement of JVP insurgency!) may indicate that his status as the younger sibling of rookie SLFP MP from the troubled South and ‘patronage politics’ aided him tremendously in

The cover of this 

document

appears 

as follows:

J.R.Jayewardene had answered it by tabling a 32-page document 

(1) Judges of Supreme Court (19 individuals)

(2) Judges of Constitutional Court (5 individuals)

(3) High Court Judges (17 individuals)

(4) Judicial Services disciplinary board (4 individuals)

(5) Sri Lanka Army officers (426 individuals)

(6) Sri Lanka Navy officers (125 individuals)

(7) Sri Lanka Air Force officers (150 individuals)

his hiring.

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