Peace for the World

Peace for the World
First democratic leader of Justice the Godfather of the Sri Lankan Tamil Struggle: Honourable Samuel James Veluppillai Chelvanayakam

Sunday, February 12, 2017

CBK, War Crimes And The Rule Of Law

by S. Ratnajeevan H. Hoole-Sunday, February 12, 2017
  • Judges are notoriously scared and take political decisions, or are corrupt and at times communal
  • Killers need to be punished and not celebrated as heroes
  • Douglas Devananda and EPDP MP Chandrakumar, admitted to the massacres of and use of cluster bombs on civilians during the last phase of the war in Mullivaikal
  • In communalist eyes, the murdering soldiers are heroes. The murdered civilians are nobodies
It is reported that President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga (CBK) has stated that there is no need for a war crimes probe and that the need is for a new constitution. It is a major flip-flop for someone who publicly cried at the Justice K. Palakidnar Memorial Oration on 24.07.2011 over her son’s and daughter’s comments after seeing the Channel Four documentary. Her son sobbed on the phone saying “how ashamed he was to call himself a Sinhalese and a Lankan.” Her daughter expressed “shock and horror that our countrymen could indulge in such horrific acts.”
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