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16 May 1972

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The Criminal Justice Commission of five judges of the Supreme Court is appointed to try those involved in the insurrection of April 1971.

Source
Ceylon Daily News, 14 June 1972; H. A. I. Goonetetileke (1978): The Sri Lankan Insurrection of 1971: A Select Bibliographical Commentary, published in Religion and the Legitimation of Power in South Asia, Bardwell L. Smith (1978).

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