Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Mr. Macrae, I want to thank you for your reporting, and particularly the courage that underpins it.
I read recently your article in The Guardian of November 16 on how you became, as you discuss today, Sri Lanka's most hated man, but I will quote from the end of the article:
But look behind these threats and hysteria beyond the front page banner headlines that read “End of the road for Callum Macrae” and you detect a different current underneath.
You made reference to that during our Qs and As. I'm concerned because, as you just mentioned, the fact that nobody really knows what happened is in itself such a serious indictment. What did you find in terms of the people themselves and their appreciation both of what happened and also of the importance of the kind of reporting you're doing?