President’s speech will have Multiple ramifications: -J. C. Weliamuna
2016-10-31
President Maithripala Sirisena’s comment during a speech at ‘Sathviru Heritage’ function at the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute (SLFI) organized to transfer ownership of houses and properties to the security divisions on October 12 and the subsequent events which included the resignation of Bribery Commission’s Director General Dilruskhi Dias Wickremasinghe created a quiet a stir in the political and civil circles. The most shocked sections were the members of the civil rights groups who worked tirelessly even with a risk to their lives to bring President Sirisena to power. Dailymirror spoke to widely respected human rights lawyer J. C. Weliamuna, one of the leading activists who worked to defeat the Rajapaksa regime on January 8, 2015 about the after effects of the President’s speech and reaction of the civil society groups. Excerpts; 
Q When you look back do you feel happy about the change that took place on January 8, 2015?