By Kishali Pinto Jayawardene
There is a fundamental fallacy in believing that the fortunes of Sri Lanka will rise or fall solely on the outcome of the US draft resolution due to be taken up before the 19th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva this coming week.
The contrary is precisely the case even though the Government is expending extraordinary expenditure and exhibiting frantic energies in support of its cause. Let us make no mistake about this. If the resolution fails, the relentless outside pressure will undoubtedly continue unless and until this Government is seen to make concrete steps towards addressing its serious Rule of Law problem. Empty rhetoric, favourable media spin and bombastic pronouncements on the part of the administration cannot prevent this. Are we prepared to allow this Government to continually divert all these financial resources on desperate exercises of deception before the international community purely to avoid its adherence to the Rule of Law? We will return to this question later on.Full Story>>>
There is a fundamental fallacy in believing that the fortunes of Sri Lanka will rise or fall solely on the outcome of the US draft resolution due to be taken up before the 19th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva this coming week.Desperate exercises in self deception
The contrary is precisely the case even though the Government is expending extraordinary expenditure and exhibiting frantic energies in support of its cause. Let us make no mistake about this. If the resolution fails, the relentless outside pressure will undoubtedly continue unless and until this Government is seen to make concrete steps towards addressing its serious Rule of Law problem. Empty rhetoric, favourable media spin and bombastic pronouncements on the part of the administration cannot prevent this. Are we prepared to allow this Government to continually divert all these financial resources on desperate exercises of deception before the international community purely to avoid its adherence to the Rule of Law? We will return to this question later on.Full Story>>>