Former Sri lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa on Wednesday alleged that a proposed bill to set up an office of missing persons targeted Government troops who defeated the lTTE ending the three-decade ethnic civil war.
In a statement, Rajapaksa said that this is one of several institutions to be established to deal with the past in terms of the UNHRC resolution that the present Government cosponsored with Western powers in September last year.
“It is clear that this office is meant to be an integral part of the judicial mechanism to deal with allegations of war crimes that the government has undertaken to establish,” Rajapaksa said.
If this draft legislation becomes law, every
member of parliament who votes for it will be held responsible by the people for betraying the country and the armed forces, he said.