The government's claim that the resolution passed at the UN Human Rights Council on Thursday called for a domestic justice mechanism was a "big lie", the National Freedom Front's leader Wimal Weerawansa said.
The MP pointed out that the resolution contained a proposal for setting up a hybrid court.
“Even though the word ‘hybrid’ has been removed in the adopted resolution, the mechanism proposed remains the same. Participation of foreign experts including investigators and judges has clearly been mentioned in the resolution. It is better to describe it as a foreign judiciary than to say a domestic mechanism,” Mr. Weerawansa said.
He stated that foreign experts were expected to arrive in the country to question the heads of the security forces and to punish those who were responsible for giving orders during the armed conflict.
Mr Weerawansa, who was elected in Colombo with the second highest number of votes after Premier Ranil Wickremesinghe, said the government prevented the media from reporting "the truth" and was influencing the media to project it as a domestic mechanism.
“We ask Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe not to mislead the people by hiding the truth. He should apologize to the people for telling lies. If they are not afraid of this, why are they trying to hide it,” he said.