Udaya Gammanpila, the leader of Pivithuru Hela Urumaya, says that the two reports that the President is hesitant to make public about the Easter attack will be made public tomorrow. He stated this while addressing a media conference held at Pivithuru Hela Urumaya Party headquarters today (20).
The Pivithuru Hela Urumaya leader who further commented said:
“The time I gave the President to publish the two reports that the President hesitates to publish about the Easter attack ends at 10am tomorrow. The President has until ten o’clock tomorrow morning to make these reports public and fulfill the responsibility given to him by the Constitution and avoid the risk of impeachment against him. However, if the President violates Article 38 of the Constitution and fails to publish these reports by tomorrow morning, I will definitely publish the report.
The government’s media spokesman threatened that I should hand over all this to the government within three days. Mr. Upul Kumarapperuma, the legal advisor to the government, has warned that I may be punished under the State Secrets Act.
We are supported by renowned presidential lawyers who have recognized the country more than the NPP . Discussed this with them. We studied in depth the risk of my being arrested under the Prevention of Terrorism Act or the State Secrets Act. When we study the State Secrets Act No. 32 of 1955, we accept that there is a risk of imprisonment up to fourteen years as they threaten. But we are ready to take that risk for the people’s right to know the truth.
When Anura Kumara Dissanayake was a Member of Parliament, he declared that the Easter Report should be made public. Father Cyril Gamini fully agreed with that statement. Is it because the society is afraid of knowing the truth about the publication of the report? There is a fair suspicion that they have deceived the Catholic people along with the NPP leaders.
But Father Cyril Gamini, you do not have a monopoly on knowing the truth in these reports. Two of the eight bombs that went off on April 21, 2019, were set off in Catholic churches. Six more bombs went off. There are non-Catholics from both. Therefore, we respectfully remind you that this is an entire national issue and you have no right to decide which report should be made public and which should be suppressed.
So even if these reports get me arrested, I feel the risk is over now because I’ve already made it public. Even though I was arrested, Imran Khan has prepared to publish these reports from the prison using modern technology in the same way that Imran Khan conducted the elections from the prison in Pakistan. Therefore, no one can stop the report from being published tomorrow. If necessary, the President has the opportunity to decide who will be repopulated.
Questions and answers
the question
At this time Father Cyril Gamini is saying about this Easter attack with your statement that it is subject to investigations and results will be a little bit here and there.
Answers
How can the publication of the reports made in an investigation by retired judges facilitate the investigations and not hinder them? Also, we have a reasonable suspicion that this report, which the President did not make public, is in my hands as well as in Father Cyril Gamini’s hands, or that he is saying that the coming out of the report without seeing the report will hinder the investigations.