SJB Colombo District MP Mujibur Rahuman launched a fierce critique of the political hypocrisy surrounding the Batalanda ...

At other times, they are used as a political tool to malign political opponents. The Batalanda Commission falls into this category- not due to the absence of guilt, but due to the sheer and ...

This comment is being written ahead of the normal Friday deadline for printing the Sunday Island due to the forthcoming New ...

Now comes the Batalanda Commission report, dusted from the presidential archives or wherever it was and produced in Parliament, the outcome of the interview. It has become the flavour of the week. For ...

The parliamentary debate on the report of the Commission of Inquiry into the alleged establishment and operation of illegal ...

‘Dangerous precedents’ and the Deep State The emergence of the long hibernating ‘Batalanda ghost’ has conveniently lessened public heat on the Government’s failure to keep hugely important campaign ...

Main Opposition Samagi Jana Balawegaya MP Mujibur Rahuman yesterday delivered a scathing critique of the political hypocrisy ...

The Report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Establishment and Maintenance of Places of Unlawful Detention and Torture Chambers at the Batalanda Housing Scheme (herein referred to as the ...

Leader of the House, Minister Bimal Rathnayake says that legal action will be initiated against former President Ranil Wickremesinghe and others held responsible in the ‘Batalanda’ Commission report, ...

This quote quite aptly describes recent developments regarding the Batalanda torture camp and former President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s involvement in the brutal counterinsurgency campaign against ...

Two issues overshadowed domestic events this week, as the Government grappled with the best ways to deal with them: missing and suspended Inspector General of Police (IGP) Deshabandu Tennakoon and ...

The ‘Batalanda commission report’, released in 1998 by a panel appointed by former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, investigated serious allegations of torture by state actors ...