Sunday, July 14, 2013
At first blush, recent actions of the Mahinda Rajapaksa administration on Sri Lanka’s abysmal governance front may cause some who are apt, (or at least pretend thereto), to wear rose coloured lenses to proclaim that there appears to be glimmerings of hope on the horizon.
A misplaced optimism
One specific development cited in that regard is the indictment of twelve Special Task Force (STF) personnel for the crime of extra-judicial executions of five students in Trincomalee in 2006. Another oft quoted reason is the holding of provincial council elections in the North and the apparent discarding (for the moment) of government plans to dilute the 13th Amendment to the Constitution.
