Wednesday, 19 March 2014 00:46
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Stepping up the rhetoric, the hard-line Bodu Bala Sena group has demanded an apology from Justice Minister Rauff Hakeem, threatening to skin him alive for handing over a report of alleged attacks on Muslim places of worship to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay. Addressing a press conference, the BBS General Secretary Galagodaththe Gnanasara Thera said The Justice Minister needed to “apologise to the Sinhala community”. He said the BBS had no idea what President Mahinda Rajapaksa was doing giving Minister Hakeem the Justice portfolio. Minister Hakeem has come under fire recently from the Government’s nationalist allies for being associated with the submission of a report to Pillay. The ongoing attacks on religious minorities has featured in the third US sponsored draft resolution on Sri Lanka currently under debate at the UNHRC in Geneva.
