President Maithripala Sirisena said that appointing the liberation Tamil Tigers of Tamil Eelam defector Karuna Aman as a minister and as Sri Lanka Freedom Party Vice President was the right decision.
Speaking during the committee debate on the budget, criticised extremist elements of criticising his government when the Rajapaksa government had acted in the same way.
Drawing on the Tamil Political Prisoner situation he asked how groups could point their figures at the new government for releasing a small amount of political prisoners when the previous government had released 12,000 detainees.
Karuna and his defector faction were implicated with several crimes in the mist recent Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights's report into Sri Lanka's atrocities.
Speaking during the committee debate on the budget, criticised extremist elements of criticising his government when the Rajapaksa government had acted in the same way.
Drawing on the Tamil Political Prisoner situation he asked how groups could point their figures at the new government for releasing a small amount of political prisoners when the previous government had released 12,000 detainees.
Karuna and his defector faction were implicated with several crimes in the mist recent Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights's report into Sri Lanka's atrocities.