Lifting of Emergency: Exposing the Sham Exercise

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16 Sep, 2011

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Author is a Human Rights & Constitutional Lawyer, Eisenhower Fellow, Senior Ashoka Fellow

Much has been said about the recent decision of the Government to end the Emergency in Sri Lanka. Some welcomed the move and others are yet to make any pronouncements.  This short essay is an attempt to examine the implications of the decision of the Government of Sri Lanka (GOSL) together with the nature and effect of withdrawal of the emergency.

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Sri Lanka's government under pressure-Turning the screw

 Sep 15th 2011,
THE United States is not in the business of threatening its friends, said Robert O. Blake, US assistant secretary of state, in Colombo on September 14th. But, he added, smiling placidly, there will be pressure. If a domestic commission appointed by Mahinda Rajapaksa, Sri Lanka’s president, does not provide credible answers to allegations of war crimes committed by the military, demands for “some sort of alternative mechanism” will mount.    More