The Sri Lanka Freedom Party appointed a special committee to study the OHCHR Investigation on Sri Lanka (OISL) report which was released on September 16, the party General Secretary Duminda Dissanayake told media.

He said that this decision was taken yesterday evening at a Central Committee meeting of the SLFP.

The report of the committee is expected within the next few weeks.

Dissanayake also made it clear that the party came to a decision to protect all those who fought to defeat terrorism.