CID question former TNA MP over Maaveerar Naal and police killings

by Abi
Dec 30, 2018
<p>A former Tamil National Alliance (TNA) MP for Batticaloa was subjected to over three hours of questioning by Sri Lanka’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID) over Maaveerar Naal and the killings of two police officers in the district.</p> <p>Former MP and ITAK organiser P. Ariyanenthiran was questioned on December 22 about his involvement in Maaveerar Naal commemorations in Batticaloa, particularly those that took place at the destroyed LTTE cemetery in Mavadi Munmari.</p> <p>As a result of case filed against Ariyanenthiran by Kokkadicholai police prior to Maaveerar Naal this year, the Batticaloa magistrates court decreed that commemorations could not include the LTTE flag, symbols or songs. While commemorations went ahead at Mavadi Munmari, no court orders were violated.</p> <p>Locals have accused Batticaloa police and CID officials from Colombo of using the killing of two police officers in the district as an excuse to harass and detain former LTTE cadres and political activists.</p>

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