It is wishful thinking of expect a police, or military inquiry not to be biased, when one of their own ranks is the accused. We have only the version of the Army spokesman to present their view. Murder in custody, torture, and rape area few items of news that filter through the screen of regulations governing the press. Rape in Ceylon is fair game. Arrests are made, but the culprits are often released on the orders of Sinhalse political overloards.
Punishment never fits the crime.
The Sri Lankan Ministry of Justice is strangely slow to propose deterent punishment for rape, murder, and other government troops violences against Tamils. It also reported that after Operation Riveresa senior commanding officers in Jaffna gave orders for the killing and sending of bodies to the Chemmani checkpoint for burial. The weekly said that the security forces also sent live prisoners to Chemmani to be killed and buried. The paper mentioned that Jaffna was under the command of Brigadier Sri Lal Weerasuriya under whom Brigadiers Karunatilake and Janaka Perera were handling security in assigned areas. It added that Brigadier Janaka Perera was in command of Chemmani at the time of the mass murderes and burials.