{"id":113776,"date":"2013-11-07T10:33:59","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T05:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=113776"},"modified":"2013-11-07T13:03:01","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T07:33:01","slug":"llrc-chairman-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/llrc-chairman-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"LLRC Chairman Passes Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chitta Ranjan De Silva, fondly known as &#8216;Bulla&#8217; in the legal fraternity, who chaired the Government&#8217;s Reconciliation Commission passed away following an illness this morning.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_113777\" style=\"width: 185px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/llrc-chairman-passes-away\/c-r-de-silva-mahinda-samrasinghe\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-113777\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-113777\" class=\" wp-image-113777 \" title=\"C.R. de Silva, Mahinda Samrasinghe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/C.R.-De-Silva.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/C.R.-De-Silva.jpg 292w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/C.R.-De-Silva-207x300.jpg 207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-113777\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">C.R. De Silva<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=C.R.+De+Silva&amp;x=12&amp;y=9\">C.R. De Silva<\/a><\/span> served as Solicitor General and then Attorney General of Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>He was appointed to chair the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=LLRC&amp;x=8&amp;y=6\">Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission<\/a><\/span> by President Mahinda Rajapaksa in 2010, and delivered a strong report and progressive recommendations, despite fears the Commission would toe the Government line on alleged rights abuses during the war.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year when the Government moved to impeach Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake, the President urged De Silva to accept the position as CJ 44. 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