Retired Deputy Minister of State Security Major General Aruna Jayasekara should resign from his ministerial post immediately, says Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith media spokesperson, Reverend Father Cyril Gamini Fernando. In a conversation with an online channel .
It was recently revealed in Parliament that Major General Aruna Jayasekara had served as the Eastern Command Commander during the Easter attacks and that he had been appointed to that position when a group including Mahinda Rajapaksa tried to seize power in the country.
Expressing his views on this matter, Samagi Jana Balawegaya Party MP Nizam Kariyapper alleged that Major General Aruna Jayasekara, who was the Eastern Commander at the time, cannot escape responsibility in a context where it has now been revealed that a group of army officers were behind the failure to prevent the Easter attacks and the destruction of evidence related to it.
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