Sri Lanka’s Criminal Investigation Department has questioned the Tamil National Alliance MP for Vanni, Sivasakthi Anandan, over Saturday’s memorial event in Vavuniya.
Anandan said he was questioned as to why he organised the commemoration event when he reported to the CID office in Colombo, accompanied by fellow MPs MA Sumanthiran and Suresh Premachandran, BBC Sinhala reported.
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