Ranil rejects Batalanda Commission report

Colombo, March 16 (Daily Mirror) - Former President Ranil Wickremesinghe today said he will reject the report of the commission which probed the unlawful detention and Killing of youth in Batalanda.

"The commission has only questioned my action to heed the request by then State Minister of Defence Ranjan Wijeratne to provide accommodation to the security forces which provided security to important state owned institutions in Biyagama during the height of the JVP insurrection of 1987/89," Wickremesinghe said in a special statement.