Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe told Parliament yesterday that there was no such thing as the Desmond Silva report on reconciliation or on human rights issues of Sri Lanka.

“I have been accused in media by some persons of not tabling a report by Desmond Silva when I tabled the reports of the Paranagama Commission and the Udalagama Commission the other day. I contacted Desmond Silva and asked whether he had compiled any such report.

I was told that he worked on an advisory panel to the Udalagama Commission and he submitted his remarks and comments to the Commission. He also told me some pages of his document had gone missing. It seems that somebody who had stolen those pages from Desmond Silva is now trying to produce them as Desmond Silva report.”

The Premier called on Speaker Jayasuriya not to permit anyone to produce such document in the name of non-existing report in Parliament. “I would like to remind those who try to mislead public that we could question them and we would not let them produce pages stolen from Desmond Silva to be produced as a report,” Prime Minister Wickremesinghe said.

Courtesy:The Island