Women facing intricacies in Kilinochchi town area road.

Saturday , 05 January 2013
Reports sates the women coming to Kilinochchi town area are facing difficulties due to some. Some are teasing and using bad usage of words against the women who are coming to the Kilinochchi bus stand and town roads.

Recently female students returning home in the evening after accomplishing their studies at a private education institution, were followed by some youths, and had been treated in a bad manner. Their bicycles were obstructed and bad usages of words were spoken. The girls were requested for dating by those trouble makers.

The youths observing some coming in that way, had left the locality and the affected students had reached their home and are in despair was stated.

Young girls are followed by some in the Kilinochchi bus stand area and are tormented and bad language usage is spoken was stated.

Meanwhile illegal liquor consumption has increased in Kilinochchi. During evening, without age, relationship, status, many are addicted to liquor and involved in arguments with those trekking in the roads and using immoral words which is a common sight was stated.

Jaffna University VC gags academics speaking to media

[TamilNet, Saturday, 05 January 2013, 13:59 GMT]
Calling the Teachers’ Associations and talking to them in an intimidating way, the Colombo-appointed Jaffna University Vice Chancellor Prof Vasanthi Arasaratnam warned them sternly against speaking to media on the affairs of the university and on the issue of re-opening it. The VC cited directives from the defence establishment of occupying Sri Lanka in gagging the academics, heads of departments and the teachers’ unions. While the academics are enraged over the role played by the VC, the students of the university observing boycott are individually harassed and intimidated everyday by the occupying Sinhala military that calls them to the camps and visits their residences in coercing them to drop the boycott. 

Secretary to the genocidal defence establishment and presidential sibling Gotabhaya Rajapaksa reiterates often that the student leaders in detention and undergoing ‘rehabilitation’ programme of the SL military would not be released, but students should return to classes without making any demand.

The Education Secretary Mr. Dissanayake, meeting representatives of the university said that the students will be released but he can’t say when. 

Gotabhaya controls every SL government department, informed circles said.

The students union decided not to drop the boycott without the release of the student leaders who were arrested after the university student community silently paid homage to those who laid down their lives for the cause of Tamil liberation, on the Heroes Day on 27 November.

The SL government conducted almost a mini military operation in entering the student hostels on 27th and in attacking the silently protesting demonstrators on 28th November. Following, it targeted student leaders and activists in arresting and detaining them under ‘terrorism’ charges.

In making the Tamil students and the faculty to be totally submissive to whatever the occupying government is doing, Rajapaksa regime wants to prove the effectiveness of genocide and structural genocide as successful means of contemporary statecraft, political observers in Jaffna said.

The university students and Eezham Tamil politicians appealed to the so-called International Community and Tamil Nadu.

The powers that were in complicity with the genocidal means of the State and regime of Sri Lanka have vested interests in keeping silence. Their responses to the university issue will be carefully perused by the Tamil youth generation in shaping its future attitudes towards them, university student activists commented.

Meanwhile, the university may resume next week or by mid January, sources close to the administration campaign. They also cite that the first year exams have to be conducted by mid January. Parents in the South are worried about the education of the 300 odd Sinhala students now studying at the Jaffna University, the sources cite.

There is a shade of opinion among a section of the student activists that the boycott, by confining the students at home, is hampering their mobilization and a continuous struggle that has to be waged.

Students also cite the atmosphere around the university campus that is found almost seized by all kinds of occupying forces of Sri Lanka.

SL police claims that it has closed the number of armed checkpoints it has created around the campus in recent times. But students say hundreds of plain-clothe personnel of the SL military intelligence, military and police hover around the university campus and some of them are present inside the campus as well.

Music luminary M.I.A. festival-bound

M.I.A. will perform at the Summafieldayze music festival today. Pic: Supplied

January 5, 2013

SHE'S a Grammy and Oscar-nominated artist hailed as the future of music who counts Madonna, Jay Z and Julian Assange among her most ardent fans.

But if she had arrived in Australia, instead of Britain, as an 11-year-old refugee 24 years ago, we would have sent her back to Sri Lanka to face near-certain death.

Trailblazing British-born, Sri-Lankan-raised Tamil graphic artist, painter, director, designer, singer and rapper, philanthropist, activist and mother M.I.A., aka 'Maya' Mathangi Arulpragasam, lands on the Gold Coast today to join The Chemical Brothers as one of the headline acts at the Summafieldayze music festival.

"I'd much rather take detention in Australia over detention in Sri Lanka because at least you're not going to be killed," the singer said when asked about Australia's policy of offshore processing of asylum seekers.

"Letting people into Australia isn't going to kill anybody."

More than 700 Sri Lankan asylum seekers have been involuntarily sent home by the Australian Government since offshore processing came into effect in August last year.

"Those people are not going back to a nice life. They're going to get tortured and they're going to basically live like prisoners and it's ridiculous," M.I.A. said.

"You know, it's really difficult to work out the future of a minority group that is considered disposable. Can you just let them in? It's a big enough country. 

"Australians themselves are immigrants.

"I just feel like one day those are the things that eventually tend to be the strong link between other places. If the next 100 years is about China and India and places like that, then it's OK that you've got immigrants coming in at the beginning of this millennium and in 100 or 50 years or 20 years those kids will also bridge the gap and be Australian people who can also relate to those nations.

"I don't think it's about isolating those people. It's about embracing them because that's the future.''

The Born Free and Paper Planes (Oscar-nominated for the film Slumdog Millionaire) singer says her record company has stalled the release of her highly anticipated fourth album, Matangi, the follow-up to her 2010 international hit Maya, because it is "too positive".

The album title is a reference to her birth name, Mathangi, and a Hindu goddess of wisdom.

"It's due in April, which is the Tamil new year -- April 15th -- and I'm still working on it," she says.

"I thought I'd finished it. I finished it and then I handed the record in, like a couple of months ago ... 

"At the moment, I've been told it's too positive. So we're having a bit of an issue at the label.

"They're like 'You need to like darken it up a bit'. I don't know what it is but as soon as I work that out.''
And M.I.A., the artist who flipped the bird live on TV during her performance at last year's Super Bowl, is agreeing to that?

"No, I'm taking my time to decide what they mean. It's an interesting one for me,'' she says.

"It's like 'We just built you up as the public enemy No. 1 and now you're coming out with all this positive stuff."

So why indulge them?

"Well, that's the point of being positive," she says, laughing.

Perhaps she'll have to Wikileak the album online, in the spirit of her 2010 ViCKi LEEKX mixtape, inspired by Australian activist, Julian Assange.

"Yeah, I know. That's the thing. I might have to go in there and help the Australian brother (Assange) out," M.I.A. said, laughing.

M.I.A. composed the theme music to Assange's TV show The World Tomorrow and was invited to hear the Australian activist's speech from the Ecuadorian embassy in London in August last year, posting images of Assange taken from inside the building on her Twitter feed.

"I am a big fan,'' she says of the Wikileaks founder, the inspiration for the ViCKi LEEKX mixtape.

Like Assange, M.I.A. is used to being derided for her political views. She received a barrage of criticism for raising her middle finger during her Super Bowl performance with Madonna.

Matangi will be M.I.A.'s first album for her new label, Interscope, also home to Madonna.

"My manager who I fired is now the head of Interscope so that's also an interesting thing for me -- revisiting people in different hats,'' she says.

"Having to choose between people and what I've learnt or felt or what I think is you know, of value to the people and then what is of value to the industry are two different things.''

Fans at her club show at Sydney's Enmore Theatre on Friday night were due to hear the album in full after M.I.A. decided on Thursday she would use the show to get their verdict on the new material.

"The only thing I can use my Sydney show for is to run it (the new album) by my fans and just be like ... there's no way I can run this ship by my fans unless I leak it,'' she says.

"I feel like what I can do is play it to them face to face and they're just going to have to say yes-no-yes-no and then on that note, I can go back to England and finish it off.''

Brian says Aussie FM was with Rajapaksa during his Singapore deportation

[TamilNet, Friday, 04 January 2013, 19:35 GMT]
Sharing with TamilNet more details of his deportation from Singapore on 14 December, 81-year-old Australian human rights activist of Sinhala origin, Dr Brian Seneviratne said that the Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr was in Colombo, meeting Mahinda Rajapaksa, at the time of his deportation. Reminding the Australian Prime Minister that what had happened in Sri Lanka was genocide, and the regime is a set of pathological liars, Brian said: “Mr Carr has enhanced the ability of this murderous regime to commit gross violations of human rights by doing what he has just done in Colombo – saying that Australia will help the Sri Lankan Navy to stop people fleeing from the murderous regime in Sri Lanka.” 

The letter Brian sent to the Australian Prime Minister after his deportation from Singapore was a version edited by him considering the size. He has now sent to TamilNet the omitted parts of the original draft as well for publication.

Dr Brian Senewiratne

“Prime Minister Gillard, your Foreign Minister, Bob Carr, was dining and wining with His Excellency President Mahinda Rajapaksa in Colombo, at the time when one of his Australian citizens was being deported for no valid reason, almost certainly at the request of the Sri Lankan government,” Brian wrote in his original draft.

Brian said that he had worked out the game of India, China, USA, UK and Rajapaksa, but “what is your game and the game of the Labor Party that I have supported for the past 36 years that I have been in Australia,” Brian asked Prime Minister Julia Gillard in the original draft.

“When geopolitics and trade are pitted against human rights, the latter always loses,” Brian said. 

• Full text of the omitted parts of Brian's letter to Australian PM

“Am I angry? No, just amused. I realised, yet again, that the totalitarian regime that runs Sri Lanka, and the Singapore regime are brothers in arms. From what happened to me in 2009 in Malaysia, that country can be included. To be added might be the unseen faces in Australia,” Brian wrote.

“Everyone knows what happened, and is happening, to the Tamil civilians in the North and East of Sri Lanka.” But the attitude is that “It never happened. Nothing ever happened. Even when it is happening, it wasn’t happening. It didn’t matter. It was of no interest,” Brian cited.

“Neither you nor your Foreign Minister really know, do you? You don’t because neither has been to the North and East of Sri Lanka and spoken to ordinary people to make an assessment of the terrifying life they lead under a brutal, murderous Armed Forces and Police, who are Sinhalese, 99.9% and 95% respectively, who treat Tamil civilians as the ‘spoils of war’ – to be used and abused with impunity,” Brian observed in his original draft of the letter.

“The incidence of rape of Tamil women and girls has escalated. That is one reason why AI, HRW and ICG are banned from visiting Sri Lanka, the Tamil North and East in particular. It was to prevent me from presenting this and other highly damaging information in Malaysia, that I was deported. Of that, there can be no doubt,” Brian said.

“I am just about to publish a paper on this, “An epidemic of Rape of Tamil women and girls in Sri Lanka by the Sri Lankan Armed Forces”. This is not irrelevant when dealing with the problem of asylum seekers, since it is to escape being raped that so many Tamil parents are sending their daughters away as refugees, or getting them married at an early age,” he wrote. 

Cautioning on the dangers people like the Bishop of Mannaar might face under a regime like Colombo, Brian said, “The Pope will have to act. After all, it is one of his flock, who is under (real) threat. Will he? I doubt it. I have a photograph of the Pope clasping the blood-stained hands of Mahinda Rajapaksa - clasping it not with one hand but with both!”

“I have been told who in Singapore was responsible for my deportation. No prizes for guessing. He has done a ‘good job’ for once in his life. He will surely be rewarded which has been his game for years,” Brian wrote on his deportation. Along with deportation, his baggage was also pilfered of toys he was carrying for children in Indonesia, Brian records.

Sceptical of any positive response coming from the Australian government for his letter, Brian tells the Australian public that it was written for them. “It was written for you. It was written in the hope that you will protest,” Brian said adding that an economic boycott of Sri Lanka should be coupled with charging the war criminals.

“Sri Lanka has a choice: Peace with Justice or An unjust Peace with permanent hostility of the Tamil people in the North and East. If the latter is chosen, protest we must and we will. Silencing us will not work, nor will deportation,” Brian concluded adding that Australia could not remain a signatory to UN conventions and at the same time violate them.

KELANIYA PS MEMBER KILLED BY UNKNOWN GUNMAN

January 5, 2013

Kelaniya Pradeshiya Sabha member Hasitha Madawala has died due to gunshot injuries. He was shot by an unknown man.

UPFA Kelaniya PS member shot dead

SATURDAY, 05 JANUARY 2013

UPFA member of the Kelaniya Pradeshiya Sabha member Hasitha Madawala has been shot dead by an unidentified gunman near his home at Waragoda, Kelaniya around 7.30 pm today (5), Police said.

The victim, who is said to be a supporter of the Kelaniya PS Chairman, succumbed to his injuries on admission to the National Hospital.

Sri Lanka appoints military to teach Sinhala in Vanni schools

[TamilNet, Friday, 04 January 2013, 21:21 GMT]
In a hitherto unheard experiment in conducting genocide, the Sri Lanka government has appointed its occupying military to teach Sinhala as second language to Tamil school children in Vanni. The Sinhala military personnel went in uniform to schools to report as Sinhala teachers and they claimed that they had permission from the SL education authorities to do so, news sources in Vanni said. The genocidal military teaching Sinhala goes parallel to the teaching of Theravada Buddhism to Tamils. The Sinhala military also aims to be in direct touch with the Tamil school children, the news sources further said. Already there were strict instructions to schools in Vanni that no functions could take place without inviting the occupying military and garlanding them publicly. 

In the schools of the island, English is the second language after mother tongue. Now the occupying military is teaching Sinhala as the second language to Tamil children.

Commenting to TamilNet, TNA parliamentarian Suresh Premachandran said: “Occupying soldiers getting appointed as school teachers is never heard of before except in this island.”

Meanwhile, Buddhist schools now come up in Jaffna with the patronage of the occupying military. Sinhala is taught in these schools. In a leading institution of Eezham Tamils, Jaffna Hindu College, a Buddhist monk has come to do the job.

News sources in the Up-Country said that similar activities of teaching Buddhism and Sinhala to Tamils of Indian Origin take place in full swing there. Large-scale Sinhala military cantonments are also planned in places like Talawakele where the Tamils of Indian origin live in large numbers.

Genocidal Sri Lanka that cites the three-language recommendation of the LLRC as smokescreen, never attempts island-wide teaching of Tamil to Sinhala children. The genocidal State could never convince the Sinhalese to learn Tamil. 

The language policy in practice, just like ‘reconciliation’ upheld by Colombo’s abetters, is a policy of naked genocide, Tamil education circles commented.

A year ago, in January 2012, India’s former President Abdul Kalam visited Colombo to ‘inaugurate’ the language policy of genocidal Sri Lanka and to eulogise it.

SL seeks new IMF loan-PB

FRIDAY, 04 JANUARY 2013

Sri Lanka intends to ask for another loan from the IMF of $1 billion after foreign investments in infrastructure failed to materialise in the formerly war-torn island, a top official said Friday.

The government will discuss borrowing another billion dollars from the International Monetary Fund this year after drawing down a previous $2.6 billion IMF bailout loan six months ago, Treasury chief Punchi Banda Jayasundera said.

"We are asking the IMF to extend budget support," Jayasundera told reporters in Colombo, explaining that the money would be used for government spending.

An IMF team is expected in Colombo later this month for talks.

Jayasundera said delays in construction work had slowed the in-flow of foreign direct investment (FDI) which stood at about a billion dollars in 2012, 50 percent down from the government's original target for the year.

Sri Lanka is still facing international censure over allegations that up to 40,000 civilians were killed in 2009 in the final months of its ethnic war pitting the largely Sinhalese army against Tamil separatists.

The government denies the claims.

A 2009 IMF bailout was secured when the island's foreign reserves crashed to a dangerously low level of $1 billion, but Central Bank of Sri Lanka figures showed reserves of $8.6 billion by September last year.

The government has revised down its growth forecast for 2012 from 7.2 percent to 6.5 percent after a drastic slow-down in imports following sharp increases in import tariffs in the face of a $10-billion trade deficit.

Sri Lanka's economy grew 8.3 percent in 2011, up from 8.0 percent in 2010, the first full year after government forces crushed the Tamil Tiger rebels.

Economic activity has been hit by high interest rates designed to discourage imports using borrowed money. However, the Central Bank cut its key interest rates by 25 basis points in early December in a sign of easing.(AFP)

January – A murderous month!

~ Dear LASANTHA, May Your Sweet Soul Rest In Peace
Sunalie Ratnayake Salem-News.com-Jan-05-2013

One of Sri Lanka's murdered journalists who will never be forgotten.

(LOS ANGELES) - This article is written on behalf of the 4th Death Anniversary of Lasantha Wickrematuge, (which falls on January 8th, 2013), who was my late Editor In Chief of The original Sunday Leader newspaper in Sri Lanka.

The late Lasantha Wickrematunge with Sunalie Ratnayake on New Year's Day - 2007

His untimely loss affected so many people and while it stands out for several reasons, his death is one of so many journalists and media employees in Sri Lanka who paid the ultimate price for publishing news that showed the government of Sri Lanka for what it is.

By : Sunalie Ratnayake

“LASANTHA MANILAL WICKREMATUNGE”

(April 5, 1958 – January 8, 2009)

“Founder Editor – The Sunday Leader”

Killed ; January 8, 2009

FOUR YEARS PASSED BY, as of January 8, 2013, and the CULPRITS are still Merry-Making, in the Land Like No Other.

** The ‘murder’ of someone close to us shall eternally leave us shocked with grief.

** Irrespective of the length of time that may have passed-by, since the colossal loss, it seems to be hard to come to terms with the fact, as if to, how one minute, this person was here, and the next, he is gone.

** When we lose someone or something that was precious to us, we may realize that there is a certain solitude that can never be occupied with anyone or anything, of the like, ever. 

** The ultimate actuality is that, those we love and lionize are never truly gone.

** The physical body may have run its course, but the soul lives forever.

** And the “memories left behind”, the “love & kindness splattered”, as well as the “lessons stalwartly taught”, shall incessantly live, and guide us through this riddle called life.

** Human beings have been cognizant of eternal life, since the commencement of time.

** Every culture may have its own traditions, and dogmas about ‘death’, ‘life after death’ and ‘reincarnation’.

** Even a blade of grass, or a blossom, fights for the privilege of life.

** NO ONE, (not even a Lethal Tyrant and his Kin, who are ludicrously drunk with power, and has stooped down to the gutter, in aspects of morals and manners) HAS THE AUTHORITY TO TAKE THE LIFE OF ANOTHER, UNDER ANY GIVEN CIRCUMSTANCE.

~ Dear LASANTHA, May Your Sweet Soul Rest In Peace !

Publisher’s Note :

SUNALIE RATNAYAKE is a SRI LANKAN Journalist based in USA.

Though her yearning and adoration for “poetry” from her tender years have kept her occupied in writing her own “poetry” almost all her life, as means of pure pleasure, thus far, she has seldom shared her “sonnets” with the public.

She could be reached at :

sunalie.secretandbeyond@yahoo.com / sue@srilankaguardian.org

Friday, January 1, 2010

January – A murderous month!

Let the Presidential election pay the real homage to Lasantha 

WikiLeaks: US On Rajapaksa’s Theory Of ‘International Conspiracy Against Sri Lanka’ And ‘War Heroes’

By Colombo Telegraph -January 5, 2013 

“There have been a few tentative steps on accountability for crimes allegedly committed by Sri Lankan troops and civilian officials during the war with the LTTE. President Rajapaksa named a committee to make recommendations to him on the U.S. incidents report by April, and candidate Fonseka has discussed privately the formation of some form of ‘truth and reconciliation’ commission. Otherwise, accountability has not been a high-profile issue — including for Tamils in Sri Lanka. While Tamils have told us they would like to see some form of accountability, they have been pragmatic in what they can expect and have focused instead on securing greater rights and freedoms, resolving the IDP question, and improving economic prospects in the war-ravaged and former LTTE-occupied areas. Indeed, while they wanted to keep the issue alive for possible future action, Tamil politicians with whom we spoke in Colombo, Jaffna, and elsewhere said now was not time and that pushing hard on the issue would make them ‘vulnerable.’” the US Embassy Colomboinformed Washington.

Patricia Butenis

A Leaked ‘Secret’ US diplomatic cable, dated January 15, 2010, updated the Secretary of State regarding the accountability for alleged crimes committed by GSL troops and officials during the war and the Tamil perspective of the accountability issue.The Colombo Telegraph found the related leaked cable from the WikiLeaks database. The cable is classified and signed by the US Ambassador to ColomboPatricia Butenis.

The US ambassador wrote; “These tentative steps notwithstanding, accountability has not been a high-profile issue in the presidential election — other than President Rajapaksa’s promises personally to stand up to any international power or body that would try to prosecute Sri Lankan war heroes. While regrettable, the lack of attention to accountability is not surprising. There are no examples we know of a regime undertaking wholesale investigations of its own troops or senior officials for war crimes while that regime or government remained in power. In Sri Lanka this is further complicated by the fact that responsibility for many of the alleged crimes rests with the country’s senior civilian and military leadership, including President Rajapaksa and his brothersand opposition candidate General Fonseka.”

Placing a comment Butenis wrote; “Accountability is clearly an issue of importance for the ultimate political and moral health of Sri Lankan society. There is an obvious split, however, between the Tamil diaspora and Tamils in Sri Lanka on how and when to address the issue. While we understand the former would like to see the issue as an immediate top-priority issue, most Tamils in Sri Lanka appear to think it is both unrealistic and counter-productive to push the issue too aggressively now. While Tamil leaders are very vocal and committed to national reconciliation and creating a political system more equitable to all ethnic communities, they believe themselves vulnerable to political or even physical attack if they raise the issue of accountability publicly, and common Tamils appear focused on more immediate economic and social concerns. A few have suggested to us that while they cannot address the issue, they would like to see the international community push it. Such an approach, however, would seem to play into the super-heated campaign rhetoric of Rajapaksa and his allies that there is an international conspiracy against Sri Lanka and its ‘war heroes.’”

Read the cable below for further details;

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More skeletal remains unearthed from Matale mass grave

SATURDAY, 05 JANUARY 2013 

59 skulls have been unearthed from the mass grave site at Matale District Hospital premises. 69 skeletal remains too have been found at the site.

The excavations are being carried out on an order by Matale Magistrate Chathurika de Silva and under the supervision of Consultant Judicial Medical Officer Dr. Ajith Jayasena.

Excavations commenced on 27th November and still skulls and remains are unearthed from the site.

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India victim's male friend recounts Delhi rape attack

The victim's friend, who witnessed the attack, speaks to Zee News-5 January 2013

The friend of a woman who died after being raped on a bus in Delhi has given his first interview since the incident.

The man, who has not been named, told Zee News how he and the victim had boarded the bus and paid a fare, before he was beaten unconscious by men on board, who then attacked her.

He also criticised police for their slow response to the attack.

The woman, 23, died of her injuries last weekend, and five men are due to stand trial for her murder and rape.

The five could face the death penalty if they are convicted. A sixth suspect is expected to be tried in a juvenile court.

A special fast-track court set up to deal with the case of the five suspects is expected to sit on Saturday.

Meanwhile. police have opened an investigation into whether Zee News broke broadcasting laws relating to disclosure of the victim's identity.

Police 'argued'

The 28-year-old friend said he and the rape victim had boarded the bus after a trip to the cinema and after failing to flag down an auto-rickshaw.

He said the bus had tinted windows, and that he believed the group of men had laid a trap for them

"We tried to resist them. Even my friend fought with them, she tried to save me," he said.

"She tried to dial the police control room number 100, but the accused snatched her mobile away.

"I tried to fight against the men but later I begged them again and again to leave her."

He confirmed earlier reports that the assailants had thrown them off the bus and tried to run them over.

The friend said he had tried to get help from passers-by and motorists.

"They slowed down, looked at our naked bodies and left," he said.

And he also criticised the authorities, accusing them of being slow to arrive, then arguing over jurisdiction, and eventually taking them to the wrong hospital.

"My friend was bleeding profusely. But instead of taking us to a nearby hospital, they [police] took us to a hospital that was far away," he said.

Delhi Police on Saturday denied its officers were late in arriving. A statement said the first vehicle had arrived within four minutes of the distress call, left the scene with the victims within another three minutes and reached Safdarjung Hospital within another 24.

Meanwhile, police say they are investigating Zee News because Indian law bans the disclosure of the identity of rape victims. The victim's friend was not named but his face was shown.

Police spokesman Rajan Bhagat told AFP news agency that a case had been filed against the broadcaster.

A new fast-track court inaugurated this week to handle the case is expected to hold a hearing on Saturday.

Five suspects have been charged with murder, rape and kidnapping.

The case has caused a national outcry, and there have been frequent protests calling for greater protection for women.

Earlier, India's top security officials held a meeting to discuss possible reforms.

They have promised to recruit more women to the police force, and supply women staff to every police station in Delhi.

The speaker, Deputy Speaker And All MPs Bound By The Oath They Have Taken – LfD

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Do you think the politicians of Sri Lanka know anything about the constitution? Even if they can read the constitution they will not be able to understand. Ranil is a good example. He did not allow the UNP -PSC members to attend the courts, by doing so he has proved beyond doubt that he cannot understand the constitution (I know he can read it).

park - January 4, 2013
6:58 pm
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By Colombo Telegraph -January 4, 2013 

“‘Lawyers for Democracy’ is committed to invoke the jurisdiction of court to seek that those who have subscribed to the oath under the Constitution and has acted in violation of the Constitution are declared disentitled to hold such positions.” says LfD.

Lal Wijenayaka -Convener LfD

Issuing a statement LfD Convener Lal Wijenayake says; “The Speaker, Deputy Speaker and all members of Parliament has taken an oath of office under the Constitution to uphold and protect the Constitution.  The speaker, Deputy Speaker all member of Parliament are bound by this oath and any violation of the solemn oath under the Constitution will disentitle them to hold the office and any citizen has a right to move court for a writ seeking declaration that the member is not entitled to sit in Parliament and / or hold office as they have violated the oath of office.  It is strange that these responsible persons who are tasked with the duty of governing this country are either ignorant or arrogant to make these statements without realizing the grave consequences that follows from such statements.”

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