Responding to remarks made by Callum Macrae on the detention of Balenderan Jayakumari, Army Spokesman Brigadier Ruwan Wanigasooriya said that the arrest was made under the terms of the Prevention of Terrorism Act.
He pointed out that therefore this matter should have to be dealt with the judiciary and extended inquiries are underway involving the Attorney General’s Department.
“Couple of months ago Balenderan Jayakumari was arrested for violating the terms of Terrorism Prevention Act. Investigations are still underway,” Wanigasooriya said.
Callum Macrae added a new wave of allegation over the arrest of Jayakumari through an article published in Huffington Post, as quoted as “Just over 200 days ago the Sri Lankan authorities arrested a Tamil mother, Balenderan Jeyakumari, and her teenage daughter. Mrs Jeyakumari had been campaigning to find out what had happened to her 15-year-old son, Mahindan, who disappeared after apparently being taken prisoner by the Sri Lankan authorities at the end of the war in 2009, accused of membership of the Tamil Tigers,”
It says that Jeyakumari and her daughter had been among the crowds which mobbed British Prime Minister David Cameron when he visited the former war zone in Jaffna in November last year.
