TNA seeks meeting with Jayalalithaa

Friday, 30 May 2014 

The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) has sought a meeting with Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa.

The TNA has congratulated Jayalalithaa for her “resounding victory” at the recently concluded elections to the Lok Sabha and sought a meeting with her to discuss the Tamil issue in Sri Lanka.

In a congratulatory message to the Chief Minister, TNA leader R. Sampanthan on behalf of Sri Lanka’s Tamil people has said her victory is an “astounding achievement” and is “indicative of the influence which you have the capacity to wield.”

He has appreciated the Chief Minister’s continuing concern towards the resolution of the Tamil question in Sri Lanka and said the party looks forward to working closely with the CM and her government to further strengthen the ties.

Recalling that following the anti-Tamil pogrom of 1983, Sri Lanka accepted the good offices of India to bring about a final and acceptable resolution of the national conflict, the TNA leader has said India has and continues to play a role in the process.

“The Tamil People in Sri Lanka do not desire a recurrence of violence. Their desire is that they and all other Sri Lankans are able to carry on their lives in the territories they live in, based on equality and justice,” Sampanthan has written to Jayalalithaa.

He said violence ended with the end of the armed conflict in May 2009 and opportunity presented for a permanent solution but Sri Lanka unfortunately has not honoured the commitments it made to India and to the International Community to bring about an acceptable political solution.

Jayalalithaa to meet Modi Tuesday, submit list of issues

IANS- 30-May-2014

Chennai, May 30 (IANS) Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday and submit a list of issues concerning Tamil Nadu, it was announced on Friday.

The memorandum will include long-pending issues crucial to Tamil Nadu and on which the central government needs to act, an official statement said.

This will be Jayalalithaa's first meeting with Modi after he became the prime minister May 26.

The Tamil Nadu chief minister didn't attend his May 26 inauguration after Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa was invited to the event.

Jayalalithaa is a bitter critic of Rajapaksa, whose regime is accused by critics of killing thousands of innocent Tamils during the final stages of the war that crushed the Tamil Tigers in 2009.

According to the statement, the memorandum would highlight some issues which require the urgent attention of the central government to safeguard the interests of the state and propel it on a faster growth path.

The statement said Jayalalithaa would call on Modi at his office in South Block June 3.

The announcement comes following Modi's various guidelines to his ministers that includes quick response to representations sent by the states and not to keep them pending for long.

The major issues taken up by the state government with the erstwhile Congress led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government include increasing the allocation of kerosene to the state; setting up of the Cauvery Management Board; attempting to encroach upon the powers of the state governments and retrieval of Katchatheevu from Sri Lanka.

Jayalalithaa led AIADMK in its general election manifesto had listed out several issues under the heading "Betrayal of Tamil Nadu by the Congress Coalition Government at the centre and the DMK".

According to AIADMK, the erstwhile UPA government had betrayed Tamil Nadu's interest by filing a counter against the state government's case in the Supreme Court on annulling the transfer of Katchatheevu to Sri Lanka in 1970s.

The state government and the AIADMK has been demanding the constitution of Cauvery Management Board to oversee the sharing of Cauvery river water between Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.

The final award of Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal was published in the official gazette in February 2013.

The Tamil Nadu chief minister is a strong critic of the current oil pricing formula and has demanded to change it.

The AIADMK had also promised the people to take up with the centre to secure the licence to operate cable television services in Chennai by the Tamil Nadu Arasu Cable TV Corporation.

Another issue that is likely to figure in the memorandum is the safety of Indian fishermen from being attacked by the Sri Lankan navy while fishing on the high seas.

Predictions Of Nostradamus On India – Some Excerpts

By S. Sivathasan -May 30, 2014

S. Sivathasan

When the name of Nostradamus is mentioned, what comes to mind are several accounts in Latin and French, different translations and varying interpretations to the English translations. Besides there appear to be even interpolations. The numerous versions have cast some strain on credibility. Yet the prophesies have some aura about them when what we access were in print well ahead of happenings.

The excerpts given below are some such. The remarkable quality about them may make us question the authenticity of the source. It may be good to examine them dispassionately as we have seen what have happened and can witness what remain to be seen in the near future. Plausibility about what are predicted adds to interest. Perhaps the skeptic is more  likely to look forward to happenings than the credulous. The latter may be more prone to believing doubters who weave their yarn.

An Account Appearing on Monday, April 6, 2009

Michel de Nostre-Dame, better known as Nostradamus (1503-1566), was a famous French astrologer whose predictions, which included the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, have proved infallibly accurate.

Last month, unpublished manuscripts of Nostradamus have been discovered (and authenticated) in an old trunk in the French city of Lyon.

India and BJP

Curiously, there are two full pages, which deal at length with India, particularly with the Bharatiya Janata Party and the forthcoming elections.

“The BJP will represent the aspirations of the Hindus, the overwhelming majority of India.

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IMF denies recommending cut down on education budget

May 30, 2014

The International Monitory Fund (IMF) today said that it has not recommended to the Sri Lankan Government to cut down budget on education, as claimed by the country’s main opposition party. 

The IMF insists that spending on education is vital of the country. 

Opposition Leader Ranil Wickramasinghe, during a recent press briefing, alleged that the government has reached an agreement with the world body to abolish free education.

He said that an IMF delegation is currently in Sri Lanka to monitor the implementation of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that it had entered into to gradually reduce the state’s financial allocation for education.  

However, the head of the IMF staff mission visiting Sri Lanka, Mr. Todd Schneider denied the accusations saying education budgets was not the delegation’s area of expertise and that they believe increasing funds allocated for education is important. 

Mr. Schneider was responding to a question put forward by a reporter during a press conference held in Colombo today, at the end of their visit from May 20-30 to conduct discussions for the 2014 Article IV consultation – the IMF’s regular exchange of economic views with member nations. 

SRI LANKA: An open letter to the President of the Bar Association on professional negligence of some magistrates

SRI LANKA: An open letter to the President of the Bar Association on professional negligence of some magistrates

 Cartoon by Awantha Artigala 

Upul Jayasuriya

President
Sri Lanka Bar Association (BASL)
No. 153
Mihindu Mawatha
Colombo 12
Sri Lanka
Fax (+94) 11 244 80 90

Dear Mr. Upul Jayasuriya,

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has closely monitored the situation of the rule of law in Sri Lanka, with particular emphasis on the way the criminal justice system functions. The AHRC wishes to draw your attention to some glaring acts of negligence on the part of certain magistrates that have resulted in serious consequences, including death, for persons who appeared before them.

We are writing to you, the President of the Bar Association, because such serious neglect on the part of the magistrates also reflects that members of the Bar have failed to fulfil their duties as required by their profession, i.e. to ensure objections are raised against such acts of neglect in order to prevent miscarriage of justice and to legitimize their role as lawyers representing clients.

The Bar Association also has a duty to ensure that it will intervene when reports of such negligence come to light. In any case, protecting the interests of lawyers, and ensuring proper professional conduct on their behalf, is an obligation of the Bar Association as a professional organisation.

We wish to bring to your notice the following recent acts of negligence:

a. Death in custody of 17-year-old P.H. Sadun Malinga:

The details of this case have been publicized and it is likely that you are already aware of it. In summary, this boy, together with a few other family members, was arrested without reason by a group of policemen from Kandaketiya police station. They were severely beaten. Later, they were produced before the Passara magistrate’s court. Two lawyers appearing for the boy and the boy himself complained of severe assault by the police. The magistrate was told that the boy was suffering from severe chest pains. The magistrate did not take any notice of these submissions and ordered that the boy and the other suspects should be remanded. The boy later died in remand prison. The judicial medical officer who conducted the post-mortem concluded that the reason for the boy’s death was internal bleeding caused by the assault. While the liability of the police and the prison authorities is obvious, the role of the magistrate in this death raises serious concerns about judicial neglect. Had the magistrate taken normal precautions, when such information regarding torture is brought to their notice and ordered immediate medical attention, this death could have been prevented. From a criminal law point of view, would this conduct of the magistrate amount to criminal negligence? If it does amount to criminal negligence, should the magistrate not be subjected to investigation for homicide? Besides the issues relating to professional failures, which should lead to appropriate inquiries, this issue of criminal neglect must be raised.

b. Deportation of British nurse Naomi Coleman:

The details of this case are also well known. The issue that we wish to raise is the order made by the magistrate for the deportation of this lady who had a tattoo of Lord Buddha on her arm. As has already been pointed out by some senior lawyers in letters published in newspapers, the magistrate had no authority to issue a deportation order on an immigration matter. In any case, what the magistrate had before him was only a B report and the magistrate was not authorized to make any judgment on the basis of such a report. What is demonstrated in this instance is also negligence: the magistrate did not examine the papers that were before him before making orders as demanded by the police. The magistrate also failed to follow the proper procedure of allowing the suspect to make a proper presentation of her position before the court.

c. Magistrate negligence in not inquiring into the circumstances of certain deaths where the police claimed the deaths were caused by actions taken in self-defence:

Recently, there have been six cases of deaths in police custody where the police claim that the suspects were shot in self-defence when they tried to attack the police as they were taken for the recovery of arms . Besides these six deaths, a large number of such deaths have been reported in recent years. Such deaths have become the subject of public ridicule. However, the magistrates, in recent years, have accepted such police reports and come to the finding of justifiable homicide. The failures of magistrates to conduct proper inquiries and to ensure that all the evidence that could lead to a proper judgment is brought to their notice has become a serious problem for the security of persons in police custody. This practice of magistrates has gone unchallenged.

We are bringing these few matters, which are part of a larger problem involving how magistrates carry out their duties, for the purpose of seeking your intervention as the premier association of lawyers in Sri Lanka, in order to challenge such neglect, for the purpose of ensuring the rule of law and the respect for law in the country.

We would like to request that you proceed with a study into these matters by your association and take appropriate measures to bring these priority matters to the attention of the judiciary. We reiterate that the proper practice of the legal profession requires the correction of such neglect and failures in the magistrates’ execution of duties.

Thank you.

Yours Sincerely,

(Signed)

Bijo Francis
Executive Director

In conversation with Kalana Senaratne: Religiosity, politics and identity in Sri Lanka

by Groundviews 

- on 05/30/2014

Kalana Senaratne is a distinguished columnist and researcher. Readers ofGroundviews would be most familiar with his writing on the rise of militant Buddhism in Sri Lanka, though he has written consistently of issues of governance, rights, politics and religiosity since 2009.

We caught up on TV recently to talk about at greater depth and length some issues he flags in his writing, and begin by exploring how and why he started to write in mainstream and web media, especially given the nature of the topics he addresses. Kalana notes how he moved from the erstwhile ‘Peace Secretariat‘ and then on to the Foreign Ministry. When asked whether he still harbours a desire to work with the Ministry, his answer is categorical, “once you go there, you don’t think of going back”, noting that the environment was not conducive to critical thinking.

Flagging his essay on the late Lakshman Kadirgamar, Kalana is asked whether, in light of his take on the Foreign Ministry and Sri Lanka’s foreign policy today, we can expect a similar individual to emerge. Kalana’s response is unequivocal – he posits that there is really no hope for the emergence of such an individual and moreover sees the present context as one where such an individual wouldn’t be able to work in, much less emerge from.

Given his own analysis of what is a systemic failure of governance with “no hope” of any course correction, Kalana is then pushed to answer why he writes on what he does, and in the manner he does.

We then talk about how nationalism is used in Sri Lanka’s political discourse, especially in the South, anchoring it to Kalana’s critique of Gomin Dayasiri’s submission around a ‘progressive’ Sinhala nationalism some years ago.

Kalana goes on to talk about the incredible rise of extremist Buddhist monks, focussing on his own writing in this regard that charts the progress of what was fringe lunacy becoming firmly entrenched in mainstream politics.

Reminded of a seminal essay he wrote two years ago around how these destructive militant Buddhist monks could be held in check,

At the end of the day, it needs to be reiterated – not once, twice but a hundred times if necessary – that it is the community of Buddhist monks which can most effectively and significantly end this madness that is being carried out by some in the name of Buddhism.

Kalana is asked why this hasn’t happened, and shows no signs of happening either. Kalana goes further and admitting his naivety when he wrote that essay two years ago, suggests that the destructive, violent project of the BBS and its ilk is in fact the project of the Sangha community writ large. When asked to respond to former Ambassador Dayan Jayatilleka’s submission that what we are seeing is a meteoric rise in theocratic fascism, Kalana clearly notes that it will lead to even more violence.

We then go on to look at Kalana’s submission, around the time of the last Presidential election, that continuity was better than change.

Much of this would not have been the case if the UNP had been able to find for itself a credible and popular leader apart from Ranil, who could promise the kind of change that is truly needed today. This has not happened. Until that happens, until there is greater vision and clarity as to what the Opposition wants to do with this nation and her people, continuity, I am sad to say, is a safer option than change.

Kalana is asked whether he still believes that continuing with the system we have today is better than change, especially since the Opposition in the form of the UNP is even more irrelevant today than it was in 2010.

We then go into the issue of defining and the need to define a Sri Lankan identity, and why most of the discourse around both glosses over the Tamil national question and the recognition of Tamils as an “equal people”. Speaking about two tsunamis – the Boxing Day tsunami of 2004 and the Northern Provincial Council election results in 2013, Kalana looks at how and why we’ve lost an opportunity to move forward, post-war, in addressing systemic challenges that resulted in violence.

Panduka badly beats up Wijayani who writes ‘mud reports’!

 Friday, 30 May 2014

Panduka Samarasekara, a freelancer attached to the government’s ‘Dinamina’ newspaper, has badly beaten up Wijayani Edirisinghe, an editorial member who writes ‘mud reports’ for the newspaper.

Panduka is a person who often gets drunk and becomes involved in fights with other workers at Lake House. However, chairman Bandula Padmakumara takes no action against him, as the freelancer serves as a number one spy and tale-carrier for him.

Wijayani has insisted to the chairman that she will not write any more ‘mud reports’ supporting the government if Panduka is not sacked. As the situation is not good, the chairman suspended, though unwillingly, his servant Panduka with effect from yesterday (29).

Tele drama performance board dissolved to appease Reginald!

 Friday, 30 May 2014 

Director general of Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation Chandrapala Liyanage has replaced several members of its tele drama approval board after it had refused to approve for telecast ‘Sakisanda’, a tele drama directed by minister Reginald Cooray, who also plays the main role in the tele drama.

Approval board members Chandrasiri Dodangoda, Bandara Eheliyagoda, Buddhadasa Galappatti, Upul Udulegamgoda and Nishani Dissanayake, editor of ‘Samudura’ newspaper, were adamant that permission should not be given for the minister’s tele drama. All of these members have been now been removed and Neil Gunasekara, Ruwan Nayanajith and several officers of the Information and Media Ministry appointed in their place.

DG Liyanage has told Rupavahini director board members that the president has repeatedly told him to telecast ‘Sakisanda’ in order to appease minister Cooray, who has been criticizing the government and preparing to undertake a new political journey together with ex-president Chandrika Kumaratunga, but that he had no other option but to remove the tele drama approval board members after they refused twice to grant permission for his tele drama.

Minister Cooray’s tele drama is of such quality that even the ITN has refused to telecast it, saying that its prime time belt will be devastated if tele dramas of such quality are telecast.

However, it is an open secret that things happen at Sri Lanka Rupavahini to the wants of officials of the President’s Office, Ministry of Information and Media and the darlings of minister Keheliya Rambukwella, who fulfill his carnal needs.

CID probes powerful minister* Colombo 07 

house grab 

By Hemantha Randunu-May 29, 2014

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has launched a probe into a racket where a senior government minister (name withheld on legal advice) has fraudulently acquired a house in Colombo 7 by forging a deed. The property belongs to the son of a wealthy Tamil businessman called Nadaraja, who died a few years ago. The current owner of the house is a university lecturer residing in Jamaica.

The minister had grabbed the property on the pretext of taking it over for the use of a government institution, sources said. The CID received a complaint against him a few days ago. The minister and his aides had already stripped the house of invaluable goods including antiques, highly placed sources told The Island. 

Student molested by soldier at Rantambe cadet camp

May 30, 2014 

An investigation has been launched into accusations that an army soldier had molested a 14-year-old student at the National Cadet Corps training camp in Rantambe.

Director of NCC, Maj General HMHA Herath stated that legal action has been taken against the aforementioned soldier, who was arrested following a complaint by the National Child Protection Authority (NCPA).

He stated that the exact date of the alleged incident has not been revealed yet and that however the 36-year-old soldier faces 21 years in prison due to the seriousness of the crime.  

Maya Angelou Reads 'Still I Rise'

May 28, 2014
Author and poet Maya Angelou died Wednesday at the age of 86. In a recording, Angelou reads her poem "Still I Rise."

MELISSA BLOCK, HOST:

And we're going to take a moment now to listen to one of Maya Angelou's best-known poems. Here she is, reading "Still I Rise."

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED BROADCAST)

MAYA ANGELOU: You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lies. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? Just 'cause I walk like I've got oil wells pumping in my living room. Just like moons and like suns with the certainty of tides, just like hopes springing high, still I rise.

Did you want to see me broken? Bowed head and lowered eyes? Shoulders falling down like teardrops, weakened by my soulful cries? Does my haughtiness offend you? (Laughing) Don't take it awful hard just 'cause I laugh (laughing) as if I've got gold mines digging in my own backyard.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like life, I'll rise. Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise that I dance as if I have diamonds at the meeting of my thighs? Out of the huts of history's shame, I rise. Up from a past rooted in pain, I rise. I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide. Welding and swelling, I bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear, I rise. Into a daybreak, miraculously clear, I rise. Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the hope and the dream of the slave, and so I rise. I rise. I rise

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST:

Maya Angelou reading her poem "Still I Rise." The author's gift with words was apparent, even in less than 140 characters.

BLOCK: Five days ago, Angelou tweeted one last time. She wrote, listen to yourself, and in that quietude, you might hear the voice of God.

SIEGEL: Maya Angelou died today at the age of 86.

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Indian minister criticises lax policing in gang-rape case

Government pledges to set up 'rape crisis cell' after outcry over attack on two teenage cousins who later hanged themselves

A protest over the Katra rape case outside the Uttar Pradesh state house in New Delhi. Photograph: Manish Swarup/AP

Jason Burke in Delh- Friday 30 May 2014

The Indian government has pledged to set up a "rape crisis cell" after a spate of brutal sexual attacks on women.

This week, two cousins aged 14 and 15 were raped by a group of men in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, and then apparently hanged themselves from a mango tree.

Angry relatives in the village of Katra accused the police of ignoring their requests to search for the girls after the pair disappeared on Tuesday evening, and protested by refusing to allow the bodies to be cut down from the tree once they were discovered. Footage of the scene, widely broadcast by Indian media, prompted outrage.

Villagers eventually allowed officials to take down the corpses after the first arrests were made on Wednesday. Police subsequently arrested two police officers and two men from the village, and were searching for three more suspects.

"Police laxity is equally responsible for the incident due to which two girls lost their lives. Police are still not acting in the right direction. All policemen involved in the incident should [have their employment] terminated," said Maneka Gandhi, the minister for women and child welfare.

Gandhi offered to order an inquiry by one of India's elite national investigative bodies should the family want it. The office of Narendra Modi, who was inaugurated as prime minister on Monday, has demanded a report on the incident.

Vrinda Grover, a lawyer and activist, dismissed the idea of a rape crisis cell as a "rehash for media consumption". She said: "This is an old idea that they are just bringing out again to satisfy the national and international media. There is no systemic effort to address the problem. No government makes this issue a priority."

Authorities in Uttar Pradesh are already under pressure for their failure to protect women amid a general deterioration in upholding law and order. On Thursday three men were arrested on suspicion of a brutal assault on the mother of a teenage rape victim in the town of Etawah after she refused to withdraw her criminal complaint.

Campaigners say such incidents are common, with attempts to intimidate witnesses frequent in all types of crime. Police often side with the most powerful local figures or accept bribes to drop prosecutions.

The two girls Katra were attacked as they went to fields to relieve themselves, as there was no toilet in their home. Under Indian law, rape victims cannot be named even after their death. However, the pair are known to have been from the dalit community, the lowest in the social hierarchy known as caste. Dalits are subject to widespread discrimination and harassment.

India's previous government, led by the centre-left Congress party, badly mishandled the aftermath of the gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old woman on a bus in Delhi in December 2012. The incident prompted deep anger and grief across the country and calls for reforms of policing and judicial process in India.

Senior Congress politicians appeared distant and slow to react to the public mood. A series of subsequent changes to the law, including tougher sentences and an attempt to improve the training of police officers, does not appear to have had a significant impact.

Recent statistics appear to show rising violence towards women, though the true extent of the problem is difficult to calculate. The social stigma attached to being a victim of rape, as well as distrust of the authorities, stops many women reporting assaults. Around a third of rape victims in India are below the age of 18, campaigners say.

"The number of reported cases does not reflect the true number of cases of rape and sexual assault, which are widespread throughout rural and urban India," said Sehjo Singh, India programme and policy director for ActionAid.

Last month, Mulayam Singh, a veteran politician, MP and the father of the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, told an election rally that he opposed the death penalty for rapists. "Boys will be boys … They make mistakes,"he said.

Shireen Vakil Miller, of Save the Children India, called the attack on the two cousins "horrific" and "part of an alarming trend of brutal violence against those from marginalised communities".

US economy goes into reverse as fears grow over recovery

US economy shrinks in first quarter for the first time in three years, raising doubts over Federal Reserve's next move

Revision to US GDP has spooked markets on Wall Street sending the dollar lower Photo: AP

By Katherine Rushton, US Business Editor

 

29 May 2014

The American economy went into reverse in the first three months of the year, new figures reveal, stoking fears that the US recovery is still much more fragile than hoped.

Economy expands 4.7 percent in FY14, looks to Modi for rebound

A worker loads bricks onto a vehicle near a construction site of a residential complex in New Delhi May 30, 2014.

BY RAJESH KUMAR SINGH-Fri May 30, 2014

(Reuters) - India's economic growth picked up marginally from a decade low in the fiscal year ended March, but pro-business Narendra Modi's thumping victory in the recent general election has stoked optimism of an investment-led turnaround in the coming quarters.

US Economy Goes Into Reverse as Fears Grow Over Recovery by nelvely

100 Countries and Their Prostitution Policies

12/23/2013 This page details 100 countries' policies on prostitution, brothel ownership, and pimping. These countries were chosen in order to be inclusive of major religions, geographical regions, and policies towards prostitution. Taiwan and Scotland were included in the country listings for China and the United Kingdom, respectively, in accordance with the country listings and population estimates provided in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) World Factbook and the US State Department’s listing of independent states in the world. Whenever possible, we have included government documents regarding prostitution such as laws, court decisions, employment information, etc. under the name of the country. While reasonable efforts have been made to assure the accuracy of the data provided, do not rely on this information without first checking an official edition of the applicable law. This page was last updated Nov. 4, 2009.

100 Countries and Their Prostitution Policies by nelvely

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China widens its crackdown on drugs and prostitution

A Chinese policeman lits a cauldron filled with illicit drugs during a ceremony to mark the UN's International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, in Hami, farwest China's Xinjiang region.

Edward Wong-Tuesday, 18 Feb 2014 

The Chinese government has widened a crackdown on prostitution, gambling and drug use to major provinces across the country, according to reports on Monday in state-run news organizations.

China Widens Its Crackdown on Drugs and Prostitution by nelvely