Premitha Bandara Tennakoon, Sri Lanka’s State Minister of Defence said that a committee will be appointed to probe the contents of the Channel4 program.
“On the 20th of April 2019, these suicide bombers, while at Span Towers, Mount Lavinia, issued another pledge to establish a Caliphate, and issued a video. What is amusing and astounding is that the video highlighting the intentions of the bombers has been disregarded, and the blame is being passed on from one faction to another,” he told Parliament on Wednesday (6).
He said that the president and the government reached a decision to appoint a committee to investigate the contents of the Channel4 video.
“The president and the government hope to appoint a committee that will allow witnesses to provide evidence via Zoom from overseas, if they cannot return to the country,” he noted.
“What is amusing here is that a Muslim pregnant woman and nine men carried out suicide attacks to bring a Sinhala Buddhist leader to power. These things can only happen in Sri Lanka and in Indian cinema,” said the State Minister.
He also noted that the former Attorney General made a statement in this regard while serving as AG, and the government hopes to summon the former Attorney General before a Parliamentary Select Committee.