Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse received the long-awaited Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Committee report today, but it is still unclear when it will be made available to the public.
Bandula Jayasekara, the president’s director general of media, said,
“The final report was handed over to the president by its chairman. The president will now study the report”.
According to the Sunday Times, while the 400-page report acknowledges that while “there appears to be a prima facie case based on the information the commissioners have received”, they have neither named any specific incidents or identified any personnel involved.
They also claimed that the report labelled the graphic video evidence acquired by Channel 4 “a total fabrication”.
The LLRC has been under intense criticisms from human rights groups, who labelled it “deeply flawed” and noted that it did not have the mandate to adequately investigate war crimes.
See our earlier posts:
'Leaked' LLRC extracts (Nov 2011)
LLRC witness summoned by Sri Lankan CID (Nov 2011)
US has ‘high expectations’ for LLRC (Nov 2011)
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