Govt. using various factions to incite racism once again: JVP

• Certain factions backing the Government are obstructing investigations pertaining to the Easter Sunday attacks

By Ajith Siriwardana

 The Government is using various factions to incite racism and extremism once again instead of meting out justice to the victims of the Easter Sunday attacks, the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) charged yesterday. 

JVP MP Vijitha Herath told a news conference that certain factions backing the Government were obstructing investigations pertaining to the Easter Sunday attacks.

“Some factions of the Government have started an attack targeting the Cardinal. It is a threat to national reconciliation. It is an obstruction to derail investigations going in the right direction. People now question the Cardinal who personally intervened in the issue. He is helpless and is left without answers before the people today. Therefore, he intervened in the issue once again. As such, he is being attacked by various factions now. Those who considered the intervention of the Cardinal as a plus point those days, are attacking him today for his intervention,” he said.

He said this was not an issue of the Catholics alone but an issue concerned with all Sri Lankans.
“This is an issue of national security and therefore it is important to prevent such an attack in the future,” he said, adding that despite all these developments, the Government was attempting to deviate the issue in another direction.