by Nilantha Ilangamuwa
The situation in Sri Lanka is ranked third in-terms of concern by the international community after Syria and Egypt. Some quarters claim that Sri Lanka is the country where wide a range of massacres have occurred in recent times. In this situation, what answer does the ruling party have? The former attorney General Mohan Peiris, who is a legal adviser to the President, says that the government is moving forward towards fresh investigations into two massacres that happened in 2006. One relates to three unarmed students who were gunned down by an armed gang when they were chatting at the Gandhi statue in Trincomalee. What is of very real interest is that it was reported in the media that the Minister of Economic Development, who is a brother of the President, disclosed to the US envoy in Colombo that it was done by the security forces with special weapons that they use to conduct this kind of killings. The second case was killing of the 17 aid workers at Muttur, Trincomalee.
".....you dislike doctrines, you have a horror of systems, as for principles, you deny that there are any in political economy; therefore we shall call it your practice -- your practice without theory and without principle."
Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850)
[Open letter to the French Parliament, originally published in 1845]
( March 08, 2012, New Delhi, Sri Lanka Guardian) The operation in Geneva has been accomplished, the hyperbole declared by the government during the weekend, after the inelegant drama on the streets of Colombo and in the suburbs where President Rajapaksa's critical political situation has been changed. Now who will talk for Antony Fernando who was a father of two; an innocent fisherman killed by a man attached to the Special Task Force after he received an order from Ravi Wijegunawardhana, Deputy Inspector General of Police, -- a senior official within one of worst State institutions which is almost dependent on unlawful tactics to kill innocent civilians. Hence, we ask the question: What was the harvest shared with the country, by the more than 52 delegates, all from the ruling party, who participated in the Geneva operation last week; Geneva being one of most expensive cities in the World? The truth is far beyond our sight, though the so called "our patriots" have their own way of dealing with people in the Country. This is simply identified as them not being serious about people at all. They are presenting us with a system of horror which is murdering the freedom of mankind in every aspect of society.
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The entire system is under cynical manipulation of power which is constitutionally above the law. The enemy is not on the outside, but within our system and our rejection to accept rule of law system. Our culture and the Rule of law have never gone together. In other words, our culture and rule of law did not overlap each other but always tried to apagoge one another. This is a strategy that was used by regimes to undermine people, for a long time. |
