President-Rajapaksaresident Rajapaksa in Parliament on Thursday August 25reads out proposal to end Emergency Regulations

Disingenuous at best. President Rajapaksa on August 26, 2011 in parliament announces lifting of emergency. The Centre for Policy Alternatives in a media release stated inter alia that: “The fact that the PTA regulations took effect at midnight on August 29 – twenty four hours before the state of emergency lapsed – is a worrying but telling indicator of the fact that the government never intended to relax emergency laws when it announced the termination of the state of emergency.”