Sri Lanka, March 15 -- "I don't see any action being taken over Batalanda commission report" - Shanakiyan claims even some JVPers opposed tabling report pic.twitter.com/dSxsnFlfUp

TNA parliamentarian Shanakiyan Rasamanickam says that Sri Lanka's problem is that regardless of who is in power, "the state always protects the state".

Referring to former President Ranil Wickremesinghe's recent 'Al Jazeera' interview, the Batticaloa District MP said he does not understand why the ex-president is defending the previous government.

He charged that former President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who sat in the opposition at the time, "who seemed to be a champion of human rights, has gone on Al Jazeera and defended the government he himself was opposed t...