The Maxwell Paranagama Report:Transiting from Rajapaksa palanaya to yahapalanaya
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October 24, 2015, 7:44 pm
The Presidential Commission to Inquire into Complaints of Missing Persons was set up by President Mahinda Rajapaksa on 15 August 2013 under the chairmanship of retired High Court Judge Maxwell Paranagama. In the one and a half years that it functioned under the Rajapaksas, this was just another commission of inquiry like the many that had preceded it. Indeed one could even say that this was even more low profile and less controversial than most of the commissions that preceded it. But after the change of regime in January 2015, this placid and relatively obscure existence was rudely shattered. Controversy first erupted not with regard to the Commission itself but in relation to the group of eminent foreign advisors, advising it on the law of armed conflict. Pro-yahapalana activists demanded the sacking of Sir Desmond de Silva the head of that advisory panel.
