Rajapaksa's used April Attacks to secure votes; alleged ex-MP

Colombo (News 1st); Former JVP Parliamentarian Bimal Ratnayake said the Rajapaksa's used the 2019 April 21st Attacks as a tool to secure votes at the election. He said President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has not done anything new with regard to the Presidential Commission of Inquiry appointed by Former President Maithripala Sirisena, adding only 20,000 pages of the 60,000-page report were released. "The report does not detail the main perpetrators. It only says Zaharan is the main suicide bomber, and that is something everyone knows," he said. Several years ago, Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa accepted the fact that intelligence services paid extremist Organizations, said the Former MP adding the Presidential Commission of Inquiry had not questioned these facts from the present Prime Minister or the then Defence Secretary, who is the incumbent President.