Getting After The “Second Echelon”
By Emil van der Poorten –September 18, 2016
Emil van der Poorten
I have, in the past, made reference to the need NOT to neglect the hangers-on and “hit-men” employed by the forces of darkness that imposed their hegemony on this country for far too long.
A recent attempt by Hirunika Premachandra to have the doctor who, she alleges, significantly delayed the delivery of justice in her father’s murder by issuing a false medical certificate investigated and brought to justice brings this factor to the surface again in quite dramatic fashion. In passing, I’d like to remind readers of who was not only the Minister that Duminda was “monitoring” at the time but the most powerful member of the MR 1 (Mahinda Rajapaksa) brigade who was the first functionary to visit Mr. Silva at the Sri Lankan hospital from which he was whisked off to Singapore for an extended medically-monitored holiday in that city state at our expense.
The allegation is that a medical certificate, falsely describing Duminda Silva’s injuries as being life-threatening and which were going to leave him a walking vegetable, was used to whisk him away from the country and kept beyond the reach of Sri Lankan law, is serious indeed. However, the attempt to create a serious miscarriage of justice is not without precedent during that period and there are senior members of what were, it now turns out, euphemistically referred to as the forces of law and order that participated in DELIBERATE efforts to ensure miscarriages of justice and those accused of capital crimes walking free.
Already, in the Thajudeen case, it is becoming increasingly evident that justice delayed is going to be justice denied and the perpetrators of one of the most heinous high-profile murders in our history with the most sordid of overtones are going to walk away, scot-free, from their crime.
NAIL THEM AND NAIL THEM NOW BEFORE THEY HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO KILL MORE WITNESSES AND DESTROY MORE EVIDENCE.
There is no choice for this government but to ensure that this is not just the continuation of a whole series of travesties of criminal law emanating from the largest barbeque in the world where scads of high profile individuals are summoned before some entity whose acronym is longer than the names of most organizations, “grilled” (and re-“grilled”) and then set free to ensure that they do not make the same mistake that led them to a period of minor discomfiture before some glorified “investigatory committee” or other that might or might not ”grill” them again.
Simply put, what has been going on is a monumental disgrace and has to be brought to a stop.
Simply put, what has been going on is a monumental disgrace and has to be brought to a stop.
Some of us, when this Ohey Palayang government came into power insisted that, given the extent of corruption and the number of monumentally corrupt, there was need of a plethora of tribunals staffed by legally competent people to begin clearing the Augean Stables. It is damned cold comfort that we were proved dead right and this charade, parading as the practice of some kind of formal justice system continues without cease, the excuse being trotted out that the system inherited was riddled with corruption and peopled with the corrupt. Even though it might be repetitious let me say that many of us warned PRECISELY of this happening if there was foot-dragging in the process of investigation and punishment?
