People Have Lost Faith In The Judiciary Sans Its Credibility
By Savika Manawadu -April 23, 2014
Ministers G L Peiris and Mahinda Samarasinghe state that the government of Sri Lanka has no faith in the inquiry into human rights abuses undertaken by the UNHRC. They claim that Sri Lanka has an independent, robust justice system to inquire into any such allegations and any international inquiry into human rights abuses in Sri Lanka lacks credibility.
Given the total control of the Judiciary under the grip of the Executive President, it is quite natural that the same question arises in the minds of the right thinking people of Sri Lanka, particularly those who respect their social obligations.
People know that the Chief Justice, DrShirani Bandaranayakelost the ‘pleasure of the Executive President’ for refusing to approve certain bills presented by the government (theDivineguma bill, giving the control of Public Finance to MinisterBasil Rajapaksa and the amendment to the Criminal Procedure Code, that permitted unfettered power to the police to keep a suspect taken into custody for 48 hours).Read More
