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Organised crime Bill could repeat PTA abuses of Tamil youths, warns Nuwan Bopage
Organised crime Bill could repeat PTA abuses of Tamil youths, warns Nuwan Bopage by Thara Tue, 27/10/2026 - 17:31 Body Nuwan Bopage of the People’s Struggle Alliance. File photograph Sri Lanka’s proposed organised crime law could open the way to the same abuses committed under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA), when Tamil youths who could not read Sinhala were forced to sign confessions written in the language and convicted on them, Nuwan Bopage of the People’s Struggle Alliance has warned. Bopage, a member of the alliance’s national executive committee, told a press conference at the all…