Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to appear in court in the case of the disappearance of two human rights activists during a local war in 2011. Gotabaya Rajapaksa was the Defense Minister in 2011 when his brother Mahinda Rajapaksa was the President. At the end of the civil war, many human rights activists disappeared. Rebels, prominent journalists, volunteers were chased away and beaten. Many of those who went missing then could not be found. Gotabaya Rajapaksa was accused of involvement in those incidents. However, he denied these allegations. During the war, human rights activists Lalitha Weeraraj and Gugan Murugananthan from the northern district of Jaffna disappeared. While the case is being investigated in the Supreme Court, former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Dec. He has been ordered to appear in court on the 15th and give an explanation. Earlier, in 2018, when the case came up for hearing in the court, he was summoned to appear before the court and give an explanation. He appealed to the court against it. In it, he had said that his life would be in danger if he came to Jaffna to appear in court.
