INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The verdict in the case against a Brigadier and three soldiers of the Sri Lanka Army, over the shooting to death of three persons and
injuring 45 others during a protest by villagers demanding clean drinking water at Rathupaswala, Gampaha is scheduled to be delivered today
the case until today (May 17).On August 01, 2013, army personnel opened fire at unarmed villagers at Weliweriya, killing three and injuring
several others, as they protested against a factory which they said polluted their groundwater and demanded clean drinking water.In 2019,
then Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya appointed a Trial-at-Bar consisting of High Court Judges Menaka Wijesundara (President), Nimal