Sri Lanka: Human Rights Comm. wants to probe the entire Law Enforcement system

COLOMBO (News 1st); The Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka has recommended that the President appoints a committee to identify perpetrators within Law Enforcement who are responsible for the breach of the law, that led to the violence on the 9th of May 2022. 

HRCSL in a statement on its findings relating to the investigation of the violence that broke out on the 9th of May 2022 opposite Temple Trees, and Galle Face said that it was revealed that the police could not accurately ascertain the speeches of the parliamentarians and the other State and non-State officials made inside the Temple Trees, on that day.

The failure of not obtain this crucial information is attributed to the intelligence unit under the Secretary of Defense which is The State Intelligence Unit, said the HRCSL.

The HRCSL said that the leadership of the police (lGP and the Senior officers) must have a system that constantly analyses all incoming information and that Sri Lanka Police should have a system of
obtaining all information relevant to prepare the officers for every possible attack.

The Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka advised examining the telephone conversations between the IGP to his subordinates and from the subordinates to the IGP and the telephone conversation between the IGP and the Secretary of defense from 11.50 to 1.00 PM on 9th May 2022, and the complete phone messages must be obtained from the TRCSL.

The HRCSL also recommended that the state adequately compensate the victims who had suffered injuries due to this breach of duty of the Law Enforcement officials.

It also recommended that the President may direct the committee that is to be appointed to investigate the entire system of Law enforcement and identify the responsibility and take necessary measures to deal with such officers punitively.