Seeking justice for the victims of the Easter Sunday attacks has turned into a political slogan, Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) MP Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka said in Parliament, yesterday.
He was speaking at the Adjournment Debate on the report submitted by the Presidential Commission of Inquiry that investigated the attacks.
Fonseka said, “Many groups have expressed their disappointment over the report. This report has turned into a postmortem. Those who are now in power turned the Easter Sunday attacks into an election promise. They promised to seek justice for those who were victimised in the attacks within two months, yet no such thing happened. These have become mere political promises.”
The Field Marshal added that even if some were trying to cover up the truth by saying that Zaharan was the real mastermind behind the Easter Sunday attacks, it was not the truth. “Zaharan was only a local who contributed to it. We never used a person called Zaharan as an intelligence agent for our missions against the LTTE. There was a lethargic attitude towards the country’s national security during the previous government. The former President did not even care to return immediately from abroad when the attack took place.”
“I questioned him at the Parliament Committee as to why he did not use a SriLankan Airlines flight to reach the country during such a crisis situation. He told us that there were no more seats available. That was not true; we checked the flight schedule,” he added.