Rajapaksa is distorting history and uttering lies, he told Sri Lanka Mirror.

Kumarapperuma was responding to remarks by the ex-president with regard to disturbances in Jaffna courts when suspects in the rape and murder of a schoolgirl were produced before a magistrate.

Rajapaksa claimed while speaking to the media in Mahiyangana that stone attacks are taking place against courts and police stations in the north, and said it was such attacks that had marked the beginning of the LTTE.

The law should be equally enforced for the south as well as the north, he said, urging police to act speedily.

Kumarapperuma said the Jaffna incident was the venting of outrage of the people against a crime, noting that similar incidents took place outside the north and the east in the past two decades.

He cited such examples as the attack on Wellawatte police, protest against Mahawa police over an assault on journalists, a demonstration against police for releasing the white van gang that tried to abduct the chairman of the Kotte municipal council as well as Bodu Bala Sena’s having stormed government ministries and the police on several occasions.

The lawyer noted that it was wrong to attack courts, but said that this was not the first time courts and police in the north were attacked after the military defeat of the LTTE.

He said that during the Rajapaksa regime, his minister Risath Badurdeen had provoked his supporters into attacking the Mannar courts in 2012, and state-sponsored thugs terrorized Kayts.

What Rajapaksa and his supporters want today is to sow the seeds of communalism and gain power through Sinhala communalists, he added.