The Sri Lankan army has once more been ordered by a court to submit a list of LTTE cadres who surrendered during the final stages of the armed conflict in 2009.
The Mullaitivu court made its demand this week, ordering the military to submit its list before January 30.
The existance of such a list was revealed by the military following Habeas Corpus petitions filed by Tamils, for their relatives who surrendered to the military in the final stages of the armed conflict in 2009.
During questioning, Major General Chanayaka Gunaratna, head of the Army’s 58th Division, admitted during proceedings earlier this year that the army had kept a list of all those that surrendered. Yet the military had twice failed to submit that list. Last year a list that was given to the court was rejected, after it emerged the military only submitted the names of those who had gone through a government rehabilitation process.