The Hon. G.G. Ponnambalam
Hon. G.G. Ponnambalam challenged the Government’s position presented in Geneva that an Office of the Independent Public Prosecutor would address accountability concerns. He argued that alleged wartime crimes require an international investigation, asserting that a domestic mechanism is inadequate because the State was a party to the conflict and cannot credibly investigate itself.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 There is no equation, Hon. Minister. But your Government’s position in Geneva was that the Office of the Independent Public Prosecutor that you hope to establish is the sine qua non for all the faults with regard to accountability. Our position is that, as far as all the crimes that were committed during the war are concerned, only an international investigation would get to the bottom of it. Anything short of that will not give justice. That is a fact because the State was a party to the war and you cannot have that same State investigating itself.
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- Hansard, Monday, 17 November 2025 ·No. 22912 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
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Cite as: The Hon. G.G. Ponnambalam. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 17 November 2025. No. 22912. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/2660