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First democratic leader of Justice the Godfather of the Sri Lankan Tamil Struggle: Honourable Samuel James Veluppillai Chelvanayakam

Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Mangala to testify before Pillay's panel?


mangla speakUNP leadership council member Mangala Samaraweera said that he could come forward to testify before the international panel appointed by Navi Pillay. MP Samaraweera was speaking today (August 13) at a media briefing at the UNP headquarters - Sirikotha.

Noting that he possesses a wealth of information of the LTTE's funds, information which he obtained while functioning as the Minister of Foreign Affairs, MP Samaraweera said that after discussing at length with party leaders, he could come forward to testify before the panel.
Speaking on the much debated gold of the LTTE, MP Samaraweera said, "Recently I met former Army commander Sarath Fonseka who said that he handed over 220kgs of gold to the police with his own hands, during the war. No one even talks of it now. Those are resources of the country ... of the people ... Every cent of these money should be taken back for the development of the country ...
"Talking at length of alleged human rights violations, the MP said that a mere soldier can not say 'no' to orders he receives from above and that if such violations actually took place during the war, bigwigs who passed the orders to the army should be the ones responsible and not the military.
The MP also said that the UNP will never allow the military to be betrayed.'I think we could have ascertained whether the UN probe was actually an impartial one or not if we testified over the massive destruction of the LTTE and provided them our information, 'he further said.