Human Rights means time lines...

As Convenor of the Task Force to expedite implementation of the National Human Rights Action Plan, I submitted a report to the meeting this week of the Inter-Ministerial Committee. That Committee appointed our Task Force, and is mandated by Cabinet to implement the plan.

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S Nadesan’s 25th death anniversary:

Inimitable Silk

The secret of Nadesan’s success as a lawyer was his keen sense of relevancy, his grasp of fundamental principles of law and his uncanny perception of the weak points in his opponent’s case. He had the flair for detecting the flaws in his opponent’s case and reasoning,

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OH YEAH RIGHT, COLOMBO DID NOT KICK EIGHT SUPREME

COURT JUDGES OUT! (Snicker)

There was no impeachment not even by the rules of the Article 107 that he wrote into his brand new, spanking constitution. Colombo elite lawyers and the Colombo elite NGO brigade took the little green book wisdom of J R Jayewardene as their gospel. They did not raise a finger, break one coconut, or tie one pirith nool before any saffron sage opposing J R Jayewardene’s greening wisdom. Is it that they didn’t do so because J. R. Jayewardene did not even say that there are integrity issues against these eight judges sent home?

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