Why this Hesitant Presidential Commission asks TNA MP SureshPremachandran

Last Thursday President Mahinda Rajapaksa has given instructions to Presidential Secretary Lalith Weeratunge the head of the steering committee of the implementation of the LLRC report.to appoint a Presidential Commission to investigate into the disappearances in the north and the east during the conflict period and the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) has declined to accept the proposed Commission.

President’s media spokesman Mohan Samaranayake confirmed that Secretary Weeratunge is yet to appoint members to the commission and further says that “Once the members are selected and the date is fixed I will release the details to the media”. However TNA MP Suresh Premachandran told that “neither the TNA nor the Tamil community would accept any commission or any reports on disappearances unless an impartial group of members are appointed to the commission and he is dubious about the members of the committee and says that “it would definitely comprise of henchmen who can be controlled by President Mahinda Rajapaksa”. He stress that the appointment of such an urgent committee is to satisfy the UN envoy Navanethem Pillay and to show the world that the government is engaged in reconciliation activities just before November, so that the Commonwealth conference would be a success. He further stress on the government’s failure in taking firm actions at several occasions in the past. Meanwhile, UNP General Secretary, parliamentarian Tissa Attanayake also added that “the government does not have a genuine desire to investigate into the disappearances but merely to deceive the Commonwealth leaders”.