Mangala Samaraweera Declares that No More Secret Prisons in Sri Lanka

The Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera Asserts that hereafter there is no more Secret Prisons in Sri Lanka. The Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera said on yesterday that the government would take “stern action” if it comes to know that any such secret detention centre still existed in Sri Lanka.

Addressing a press conference, the Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera described his government as one “dedicated to human rights of its entire people” Mangala Samaraweera was responding to questions on the observation of the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances during its visit last month about a former secret detention facility in the naval base in Trincomalee in the Eastern Province and the reported remarks of former Member of Parliament of the Tamil National Alliance, Suresh Premachandran, regarding the existence of secret detention centres in Jaffna Asserting that the country did not have any more secret detention centres, the Minister said: “If someone has information to the contrary, please tell us. We will certainly give you free hand, try and facilitate [you] to visit such places as quickly as possible.”