by Tisaranee Gunasekara-Thursday, September 26, 2013
“Suppose, per impossible, there had been international human rights conventions in force…. How could Torquemada have fared? Or Calvin….? Or the Vatican and its Inquisition?..... How would the United States have fared in connection with slavery?”- AC Grayling (Towards the light of Liberty)
( September 26, 2013, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) It is becoming a habit – this discovery of uncounted ballot-papers, discarded in some obscure corner, post-election. The first time was after the Presidential election, when 67 ballot-papers were discovered, marked for Gen. Fonseka and abandoned in a ditch. Initially the government claimed that these were photocopies, and hinted at an ‘Opposition/International conspiracy’.
