Iinternational Crisis Group : Asia Report N°23920 Nov 2012 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS SL Army – 15 out of 18 divisions deployed in North The Sri Lankan government’s refusal to negotiate seriously with Tamil leaders or otherwise address legitimate Tamil and Muslim grievances is increasing ethnic tensions and damaging prospects for lasting peace. The administration, […]
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Sri Lanka Opposition Calls Prison Deaths Massacre; photos show the way they killed
see more photos below NEWS: Sri Lanka’s main opposition party described the deaths of 27 inmates after a prison riot as a “cold-blooded massacre” and demanded a parliamentary investigation. Authorities have said the prisoners died in a shootout. Mangala Samaraweera, a lawmaker for United National party, said that he had information that most of the […]
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Borella turned into Pudumathalan and the re-appearance of Niemöller
121110072022-sri-lanka-prison-riot-story-top Photo courtesy CNN Sunanda Deshapriya The photos of prisoners, like thugs, holding a few machine guns on the roof of Welikada Prison, challenging a government which is capable of terrorizing an entire country, what do they tell us? The news of the mass murder which was a response to that challenge, what does that […]
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Chandra J. files petition in Appeal Court against move to impeach CJ
Good governance activist and former private sector leader Chandra Jayaratne has filed a petition in the Court of Appeal yesterday seeking a ruling by the court that the process to impeach Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake was unconstitutional and has no validity in law. Via the petition Jayaratne is challenging the constitutionality of the process and […]
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UN Review On Its Conduct In Sri Lanka: Dire Implications
Prof. S. Ratnajeevan H. Hoole Charles Petrie, a former UN Official, was mandated by the Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to review the conduct of the UN during the last days of the LTTE in May 2009. That report by his panel in its near final form has been reported on by the BBC. It is […]
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In the law enforcement area, the vacuum that will be created by the removal of the independent character of the judges will be filled by the Ministry of Defence
The paramilitary and the intelligence services will play the role of accusers, judges and executioners. Basil FernandoThe impeachment is not about the individual that is Shriyani Bandaranayake, the Chief Justice. The real issue is about ending the position of the judiciary as a separate branch of the state. What is now being faced is a […]
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Frivolity and Lack of Due Diligence in Framing Impeachment Motion Against the Chief Justice is Astounding
Dharisha Bastians“The Chief Justice of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is making a stand: which side you take will define who we are as Sri Lankans,” announced Shaveen Bandaranayake, son of Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake, on his Facebook page, the same day that an impeachment motion against her was handed over to the […]
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CJ’s Lawyers refute allegations published in newspapers
CJ Shirani Banadaranayake The lawyers of the Chief justice, Dr. Shirani Bandaranayake, the firm of Messrs Neelakandan & Neelakandan, has written to the Editor of Island, Ceylon Today and News Director of MTV/MBC, referring to publicity given to allegations against the Chief Justice. ‘Our Client instructs us to state that she will, as always, continue […]
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Hell Hath No Fury….Like The Rajapaksas Thwarted
Tisaranee Gunasekara“Tyrant, why swell’st thou thus, of mischief vaunting?…..Lewd lies thy tongue contrives…. Falsehood thy wit approves…”Psalm 52 (Translated by Mary Sidney)Hell hath no fury like the Rajapaksas thwarted. All those who opposed the interests, whims and fancies of the Ruling Siblings in the past know the hellfire of their fury. Students, workers, Tamil civilians, […]
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SRI LANKA: The final nail in the coffin of the judiciary
Kishali Pinto Jayawardene For those of us who prefer to take refuge in comfortable illusions that this Presidency only hides a velvet hand in an iron glove (to mischievously twist that proverbial saying around), the motion of impeachment of the Chief Justice of Sri Lanka presented by 117 government MPs to the Speaker this week […]
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The disgraceful confessions of a former Chief Justice
Sri Lankan tsunami survivors pay tribute to a grave ( AP photo) The triumphal confession of a former chief justice Sarath Silva reported in the Daily Mirror of 16 October 2012 while making a speech at an opposition meeting in support of Sarath Fonseka of the opposition to President Mahinda Rajapaksa of Sri Lanka is […]
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The ugliest attack in Sri Lanka’s history on the Supreme Court and the Chief Justice
A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission The Mahinda Rajapaksa regime has resorted to the ugliest attack in Sri Lankan judicial history on the Supreme Court and the Chief Justice this week by using the state media as a slander machine and through employing the state media to introduce deliberately manufactured slanderous letters to […]
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Disrespect for the courts and the law is out in the open;targeted attack on judicial staff and officers quite inevitable if the slightest dissent is shown
18th amendment: the end of checks and balances for democratic governance ( photo credit : Asia Society) Kishali Pinto JayawardenaeThe attack on the Secretary of the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) last Sunday, which some have read justifiably as an attempted abduction, is certainly quite unprecedented in the history of this country.We may have had tensions […]
