Former President Ranil Wickremesinghe has dismissed the Batalanda Commission report, calling it politically motivated.
In a special statement, he claimed the commission was created to discredit him but failed to achieve its goal.
Wickremesinghe clarified that the report only mentioned his role in facilitating housing for police officers during the 1988-1990 insurgency and did not implicate him in any other allegations.
He stated that he was only summoned as a witness and that the responsibility for providing housing should have been handled by the Inspector General of Police.
The former president emphasized that the report was presented in Parliament in 2000, yet no political party, including the JVP, called for a debate on it.
He recounted that during the JVP insurgency, abandoned buildings were allocated for security forces to protect key economic sites in Biyagama.
Wickremesinghe argued that the commission’s findings mainly documented JVP’s terrorist activities but did not establish any wrongdoing on his part.
He pointed out that no government in power has attempted to use the report against him, further proving its lack of credibility.
According to him, revisiting a parliamentary session record 25 years later is unprecedented and unnecessary.
Wickremesinghe firmly rejected the report and reiterated that it had no legal or political impact on him.
