ITAK urges President not to appoint members from security backgrounds to Office of Repatriation

THE Ilankai Tamil Arasu Kadchi (ITAK) has urged President Anura Kumara Dissanayake not to appoint members with security backgrounds to the Office of Reparations (OoR), which has four vacancies.

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In a letter to the President on 6 November, the ITKA has stated that it reliably understands that four names have been recommended for the four vacant positions in the OoR and that two of those names - Wasantha Perera and Joseph Terence Gnananandan Sundaram - have security sector backgrounds.

It stated that the OoR was generally promoted as a mechanism for advancing reconciliation in Sri Lanka following the Civil War in the North and East.