Bali Nine, Capital Punishment and Sri Lanka’s Policy Ambiguities
by Laksiri Fernando
( February 10, 2015, Sydney, Sri Lanka Guardian) As Australia is stunned and saddened by Indonesia’s adamant decision to go ahead with the execution of two young Australian convicts of drug trafficking, Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, without listening to many appeals, it is shocking to hear from the new Minister of Justice in Sri Lanka, Wijedasa Rajapaksa, whom I considered in high esteem as a rational person before, that Sri Lanka would reinstate capital punishment (if necessary) to curb crime in the country.
