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Sri Lanka’s Court of Appeal has acquitted two soldiers who were initially sentenced to death over the 1996 gang rape and murder of a Tamil woman in Jaffna. The decision, made by the Court of Appeal last week, saw two defendants, soldier Hevapedike Sarathchandra and Corporal Gamage Kitsiri, acquitted of all charges. A third soldier Corporal Gamini Saman Liyenake has been
By Lynn Ockersz A new-born girl child, Left alone and found crying, In desolate provincial wilds, Seems yet another story, Of family planning gone awry, But this time around, There’s more to it than that, Because the lights are going out, One by one in the Isle’s hearths, As the economy grinds to a halt, […]
The 51 sessions of the Geneva-based United Nations Human Rights Council is underway. Sri Lanka is again in the focus with Western powers and their lackeys targeting the war-winning Sri Lanka military. Successive Sri Lankan governments, including the incumbent administration, failed to address core issues. Their failure to counter accusations that over 40,000 Tamil civilians […]
By Lynn Ockersz The ‘Long Arm of the Law’, Often clumsy and paralyzed, Is dead on target this time around, Brutally bloodying the pleading lass, Her piercing screams of doubling pain, Failing to still that Beast within him, Now fully roused and baying for blood, And his role as protector is now forgot, For, his […]
The late Gomin Dayasri declared he didn’t want to be a President’s Counsel. Appearing on Sirasa Pathikada, the outspoken lawyer said that there was no point in requesting such a title. Dayasri said so during a conversation with the late Bandula Jayasekera, who invited him on several occasions. Dayasri pointed out the absurdity in the […]