Sri Lankan President Decides to Probe Death of Former MinisterSri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga has decided to appoint a commission to investigate the death of former ports minister and leader of the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) M.H.M. Ashraff who died in a helicopter crash last September, the official Daily News said on Saturday.The decision came after a discussion the president had with Rauff Hakeem, minister of the Internal and International Trade and Commerce, Shipping Development and Muslim Religious Affairs who shared the leadership of the SLMC with Ashiraff's widow shortly after his sudden death. The commission for the investigation is expected to be headed by Supreme Court judge L.H.E. Weerasekera, the paper said. Earlier, the SLMC had appealed to President Kumaratunga to appoint a commission to probe the incident, suspecting a conspiracy was behind it. Ashraff together with 14 others died on September 16 last year in a helicopter crash near Aranayake in the Kegalle district, some 80 kilometers east of the capital Colombo. |
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