2024 Election Update: Gammanpila’s fanfare falls flat

Issue: On October 14, Leader of the Pivithuru Hela Urumaya (PHU) Udaya Gammanpila announced that he was in possession of two unpublicised reports concerning the Easter Sunday attacks and gave the NPP government a seven-day deadline to publicly release these reports.[1][2][3] On October 21, Gammanpila released the first report by the Committee of Inquiry (CoI) headed by retired High Court Judge A. N. J. de Alwis.[4][5] Gammanpila noted that the report recommended initiating legal action against former police officials Ravi Seneviratne and…