10 April 2021 12:00 am Views - 232
All Ceylon Makkal Congress (ACMC) leader MP Rishad Bathiudeen said the killing of Fouzul Ameer Mohamed Salley before his children in the aftermath of the Easter Attacks, was Genocide under Article 2 of the Genocide Convention, and all persons who were inciting racism could be charged for incitement to genocide.
Making his remarks in Parliament during the debate on the report of the Commission of Inquiry on the Easter Attacks, MP Bathiudeen, addressed Parliament in English. He said the Muslims never called for separatism.
“The Muslims have been on the side of the nation for over 1,000 years in Sri Lanka as documented in the book of Dr. Lorna Devaraja titled, ‘The Muslims of Sri Lanka - One Thousand Years of Ethnic Harmony’ . Even when the Muslims were threatened with eviction or death from the North, the Muslims risked their lives and the lives of their loved ones to be on the side of the State. Zahran Hashim and his group were not Muslims. They hijacked the name of Islam to commit these crimes. The report in Page 94 confirms that Zahran wanted to build tensions between the Sinhalese and Muslim Communities of Sri Lanka. ”