Poems - Stories - and An Interview on Culture of Sri Lanka
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An interview with Mr. Basil Fernando of the Asian Human Rights Commission by Nilantha Ilangamuwa of the Sri Lanka Guardian - CAST ORIGINS OF SRI LANKA'S AUTHORITARIANISM
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SINHALA POEM
RECOVERING THE AUTHORITY OF PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS
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” It is disconcerting to note that the officers of the Ministry of External Affairs and the officers of the Embassy in Riyadh kept the confirmation of Rizana’s death sentence a secret and made no public disclosure on the matter. Had it not been for the accidental visit by a concerned person who discovered the [...]
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” Almost everybody has seen this tragic selfishness. However, almost everybody also has kept and are remaining to keep silent about the matter. They pretend not to see the most obvious things. The nation is still exploited, now by different persons, for the same ends and today such exploitation is called development.” Nothing can be [...]
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A person with such a past claiming to be the advocate of violence against students protesting for their basic rights may be ironic. If Mr. Dissanayake’s activities as a student leader of his day were not characterised as terrorism then neither can the activities of the students of the present day. The attacks on the [...]
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The same situation is valid in the civil service. Suppose a Sri Lankan belonging to the civil service wants to proceed through the ranks? Can he do that in a system or merit or does it depend entirely on a politicised process? So where is the sense of belonging in a civil service that does [...]
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Robberies- Police and 18th Amendment ‘ People see police as those who are used by the powerful persons for bad purposes, such as rigging elections and abuse political opponents. In turn, people also see that police officers from top to bottom of being corrupt. ‘ 1. October 11/2010- Anuradhapura - Rs. [...]
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A place where there is no room for justice is not a nation but a madhouse. That is what Sri Lanka has become today. Ask anyone who has sought justice for any problem they have faced. Among the hundreds of thousands of such stories here is one. Mr. Thirimadura UpaIi Mendis . The family lived [...]
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The Constitution Places the Executive President above the Courts This picture shows the executive president sitting above the Supreme Court Complex. The Supreme Court is the highest court but the post of the executive president is above it. Article 35 of the Constitution specifically places him outside the jurisdiction of the courts. The 18th Amendment [...]
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The Degeneration of police into “licensed thugs” This is a photo of Mr Ganegoda Sinhage Haritha Lakmal (30) of No. 590/2A, Middle Gate Upper Road, Addunkelle Watte, Ahangama, who became an unfortunate victim of an assault by Sub Inspector (SI) Nelumdeniya and several other officers of the Ahangama Police Station, for no reason. The police [...]
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H.A. Parackrama Karunaratne (28) of No. 34, Badiwewa, Ma Oya,Jayanthipura, Polonnaruwa went to make a complaint of gambling near his house. He was arrested, tortured and hand cuffed to a tree while his other wrist was cuffed to his leg by a sergeant of the Ma Oya Police Post on 26 April 2010. The picture [...]
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“Now, there are street protests to demand fair trials and justice. These acts of protest demonstrate the frustrations of the people against the entire political system based on 1978 Constitution. The insanity of the constitutional thinking has now begun to destroy the citizen’s belief in the right to a fair trial.” Perhaps for the first [...]
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ONLINE BOOK-A Baseline Study on Torture in Sri Lanka
ONLINE BOOK-In Defence of the Legal Profession
A LONG SEARCH FOR JUSTICE
The UN Human Rights Committee report of a TORTURE VICTIM
An article from Transparency International Sri Lanka
Transfer of the Director General of the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption
