Rajiva Wijesinha

“ In Sri Lanka the Attorney General’s position has never been politicized – except perhaps in the bad old days of the 80s but we won’t go into President Jayawardene now – except to say that that Attorney General, who faithfully represented a racist government, now represents the LTTE. And on the whole no one has ever questioned the integrity or the capacity of Attorney Generals. And the Attorney General’s Department was quite furious because they said this is inappropriate. But they also said, look, we don’t have to be here. If the Commission does not want us, we will go away. ”

“ Of course, Europeans have every right to pay only for their own people, we have no right to ask them to pay for others, our poverty is not their fault, but at the same time we should recognize that he who pays the piper calls the tune, and because of their wealth, it is the perspectives of some of the countries which had eminent persons serving which dominated. ”

“ There were people who wanted an international commission of inquiry. But the government point was this was inappropriate. We had perfectly good people in Sri Lanka, and they appointed a panel of 8 commissioners and no one has ever impugned their integrity or questioned them, except I think today, we saw in the papers, someone from the government has said one of these commissioners should not be there for a particular reason. I should add that the man’s integrity is beyond question. ”