Paranagama told Express here on Sunday, that while examinations by his board couldn't go to any exact figure of passings, it was "absolutely not 40,000" as expressed in the UN board report. Indeed, even that report was not complete, just saying that 40,000 may have been murdered.
"The Department of Statistics which had done a house to house overview in the contention zone, and the reports conveyed by the different remote government offices recommend a loss of life of 7,700 or something like that.
Our bonus couldn't touch base at any exact figure, however we think 40,000 was absolutely an overestimation," Paranagama said.
UNHRC Kept In Dark
In the mean time, some previous ambassadors, pastors and human rights activists have kept in touch with President Maithripala Sirisena asking him to figure out for what valid reason the last Paranagama report, submitted to him on August 15, was not tabled at the on-going session of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC).
The Paranagama board had been prompted on universal compassionate law by a global group involving Sir Desmond de Silva, Prof.David Crane, Sir Geoffrey Nice, and Maj.Gen.John Holms. In July 2015, the Sirisena government had even delegated a Special Investigating Team to assist examinations concerning a few cases answered to the said board.
The candidates pointed out that the latest investigative report of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights had said that the Paranagama report was not been given to it. In the event that the report had been submitted, it would have had an effect on the reasoning of the UNHRC. Since the Lankan Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera has guaranteed to discharge the Paranagama report, the applicants requested that President Sirisena have it set before the UNHRC, immediately.
