The head of the National Freedom Front, Wimal Weerawansa warned the government's Bill on on the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearances would "endanger the lives of security forces".
“If the convention was passed in Parliament, the government is bound to hand over even General (Rtd) Jagath Jayasuriya, who had a case filed against him, in a foreign country,” he was quoted by the Daily Mirror as saying.
"The then foreign minister Mangala Samaraweera who signed the convention secretly is now planning to authorise it in parliament,’ he said, adding that the UK and US had not signed the bill.