The Batalanda Report Was Tabled. A Year Later, Justice Was Not
COLOMBO — One year after Sri Lanka’s Attorney General received the Batalanda Commission report — detailing torture chambers, extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances during the government’s suppression of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) insurrection — no one has been charged, no prosecutorial update has been issued, and the parliamentary debate that was promised has yet to be scheduled. The silence that has followed, political analysts say, reflects not only legal complexity but a
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