Sri Lanka: Former President Sirisena calls for fresh elections
The former president added that he could not stay at home when the people were in a state of distress with thousands of problems in the country.
The former president added that he could not stay at home when the people were in a state of distress with thousands of problems in the country.
The Commission will be chaired retired Supreme Court Judge Upali Abeyratne.
While the Tamil majority Northern and Eastern Provinces are still reeling under Army occupation, the Tamil National Alliance found the elevation of Silva an affront to their sentiments.
During his four-day visit to the kingdom, Sirisena will also visit the temples in the Angkor Archeological Park in northwestern Siem Reap province.
NTJ leader Zahran Hashim had made a video with his fellow suicide bombers pledging allegiance to IS leader Abu Bakr Al-Bagdadi. The video was released by the IS two days later.
The Easter Sunday bombings which also injured over 500 people was the bloodiest attack in the island nation after the civil war ended in 2009.
Islamophobia is deployed in the politics of Sri Lanka to put the Muslims in place. Addressing a public meeting in Mullaitivu on 9 June, the last bastion of the LTTE where it was vanquished by the Sri Lankan Army with the support of India, Sirisena urged the people not to leave any room for a ‘Muslim Prabhakaran‘ to be born.
Over 100 people including 10 women are in custody in connection with April's Easter Sunday suicide attacks on three churches and three luxury hotels in Colombo.
The statement comes a day after PM Modi held talks with Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena and mutually agreed that terrorism is a 'joint threat that needs collective and focussed action'.
Sirisena backed by the then main Opposition United National Party (UNP) became the common Opposition candidate against his former boss Rajapaksa.
