JVP To Break Silence On OISL Report Today

September 22, 2015

The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna will reveal its stance on the OHCHR Investigation on Sri Lanka (OISL) report released recently by the UNHRC Chief Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussain today.

JVP National Organizer Bimal Ratnayake told Asian Mirror yesterday that the party will reveal its position at a press conference today.

He added that the JVP believes in justice for the victims of the war, and recalled that the party had suggested the then President Mahinda Rajapaksa to establish a Truth Commission back in 2009.

However, the intervention of the US has to be viewed with caution, Rathnayake also said. During the past few decades, US intervention has damaged the rights of the citizens of the countries it has intervened in, rather than realizing justice for the victims, he argued.

Until now, the JVP has been silent over the OISL report. When asked about it at a recent press conference, party leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake said that the JVP will respond at a separate press conference.