“The government in power had to take measures to ensure the security of the country,” he said. “After 1994 Chandrika Kumaratunga appointed the Batalanda Commission wholly with the intention of ...

The Parliament debate will be held on April 10. The Batalanda Commission was established by former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga in 1995 through a Presidential warrant. The ...

Yet, once the commission report was out, President Kumaratunga, instead of following up with its recommendations, used it as part of a smear campaign against Ranil Wickremesinghe. What is ...

But the SLFP-led People’s Alliance government and President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga did not go all out to do so. Instead, Kumaratunga appointed the Batalanda Commission, whose report is ...

Leader of the House and Transport Minister Bimal Ratnayake yesterday called on Speaker Dr. Jagath Wickremaratne to take action against an MP who used what Ratnayake alleged was a sexually derogatory ...

As per a news item appeared in the Daily Mirror dated 14th march 2014, UNP National Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe vowed to topple this government in the same way he toppled the government of former ...

The ‘Batalanda commission report’, released in 1998 by a panel appointed by former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, investigated serious allegations of torture by state actors ...

The Batalanda Commission was established by former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga in 1995 through a Presidential warrant. Chaired by Justice D. Jayawickrama with N.E. Dissanayake as a ...

The report has urged the then President Chandrika Kumaratunga “to consider inviting Representatives of the People (such as Members of Parliament) to discuss these matters in detail, and propose a set ...

The Commission was appointed by then President Chandrika Kumaratunga in 1995 and the report was presented in 1998.It was published in 2000 as a sessional paper. The Report was tabled by the Leader of ...