Sri Lanka Marxist parliamentarian calls on government to relax emergency regulations

Sri Lanka's Marxist party Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) politburo member and DNA parliamentarian Anura Kumara Dissanayake today charged that the government has used emergency regulations suppress the people's rights and to silence dissent.

Dissanayake speaking during the debate on the extension of emergency regulations in parliament has called on the government to relax the emergency regulations.

He also spoke of the incidents of attacks on media personnel and institutions that have taken place after the war and said that perpetrators had not been apprehended in any of these cases.

Dissanayake also noted that several members of the gang who had attacked Sirasa TV last year are contesting the local government election in the Kelaniya area.

He said the authorities, after failing to take any action against the attackers even after video clips of them attacking the institution were made public, have been given nominations to contest the local government elections on March 17.