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Prison massacre eyewitness gets threats

14 Jul 2021

  • Dematagoda Police probing
BY Pamodi Waravita The Committee for Protecting the Rights of Prisoners (CPRP) has raised concerns over the renewed threats to the life of its Secretary W. Sudesh Nandimal Silva who is a key eyewitness to the 2012 Welikada Prison massacre. In a statement to the media over the weekend, CPRP Chairman Attorney-at-Law Senaka Perera claimed that Silva, a key eyewitness to the Welikada Prison massacre case HC (TAB)/493/19 being heard before the Colombo Permanent High Court Trial-at-Bar, is receiving death threats again, where on 7 July, two unidentified persons have inquired after his whereabouts from his neighbours in Maligawatta, hinting at a future threat to his life. Furthermore, Perera claimed that a group of persons had also inquired about Silva from some of his relatives residing in Mount Lavinia where he too had lived 15 years ago. Accordingly, a police complaint has been filed with the Dematagoda Police, following which two statements have been recorded by the Police and the CCTV recordings of the incident have also been taken into police custody. Silva has received threats on multiple previous occasions for being an eyewitness to the 2012 Welikada Prison massacre, during which 27 inmates at the said prison complex were killed on 9 and 10 November 2012, allegedly at the behest of the state.


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