Breaking Decades of Silence, Sri Lanka Revisits the Batalanda Legacy

Breaking Decades of Silence, Sri Lanka Revisits the Batalanda Legacy

An interview with a former President that led to public calls for a probe into the Batalanda Commission Report has finally prompted the government to reopen a dark chapter.

Ranil Wickremesinghe in the hot seat over Batalanda torture site • Sri Lanka Brief

Image courtesy of Hiaml South Asia. Frances Harrison. “Why I confronted the former president with the Batalanda Commission report during his Al Jazeera interview – and why Sri Lanka must face up to the torture, disappearances, and human rights abuses of the 1980s JVP insurrection.” WHEN WE STARTED getting messages that the International Truth and Justice Project (ITJP) website was not working, in the wake of an Al Jazeera interview with the form…