Sri Lanka, March 27 -- The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said today that it was 'troubled' by the reports of the release of former staff sergeant R.M. Sunil Ratnayake on a special presidential pardon.
"We are troubled by the reports that the convicted 'perpetrator of the Mirusuvil massacre, in Sri Lanka, has received a Presidential Pardon and was released from jail this week," Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Rupert Colville said(statement).
He said former Army sergeant Sunil Ratnayake was sentenced in 2015 for the murder in 2000 of eight civilians, including a five-year-old child, after more than a decade long trial.
"Five defendants were brought to trial but only Sgt Ratnayake was convic...