Another batch of the Mali-bound Combat Convoy Company (CCC) of the Sri Lanka Army left the island yesterday, Army said.The 18 member group left the country last evening to take up their roles in the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission (MINUSMA).
The initial group of 150 Army personnel, left for the UN Mission on 24th December, last year (2017). The Sri Lankan contingent of 200 Army personnel is drawn from 10 Regiments and will serve a period of one year under the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA). The remaining members of the CCC are scheduled to leave the country shortly.
Public Security Minister Ananda Wijepala told Parliament today that the suspect in the rape of a lady doctor at the Anuradhapura teaching hospital has been identified as an army deserter and he will be apprehended shortly.
Police have arrested the suspect connected to the sexual assault on a female doctor at the Anuradhapura Teaching Hospital today morning in Galnewa.
The Dutch Public Prosecutor suspects two companies of paying bribes in the construction of hospitals in Sri Lanka, according to an investigation by FD, the Dutch financial newspaper.
The Government today tabled in the House the Report of the Commission to Inquiry into the Establishment and Maintenance of Unlawful Places of Detention and Torture Chambers in the Batalanda Housing Scheme.
Former President Ranil Wickremesinghe said today he wholly rejects the Batalanda Commission report and that it was appointed wholly with the intention slinging political mud at him.
Leader of the National People’s Party (NPP) and one time Propaganda Secretary of the JVP Wimal Weerawansa accused the Government of bringing back the “Batalanda Commission” for a media spectacle instead of a genuine concern for those who suffered during the 1988-1990 period.
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