Broken Promises (IN SINHALA)

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Broken Promises

TNA response to the position of the Government of Sri Lanka at the 19th session of the UN Human Rights Council

1. The Government of Sri Lanka has serious issues with regard to telling the truth and keeping its promises

   1.1. In response to Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe’s statement to the 18th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council [UNHRC] on 12 September 2011, the Tamil National Alliance...(Read More)

Opinion Editorial of TNA on Police Powers

The government has responded in multiple and contradictory ways to the position of the Tamil National Alliance that powers over law and order, including powers over police, should be devolved to the provinces. The President... (Read More)

M.A. Sumanthiran's Parliamentary Speech on the Sri Lankan Police - 6th October 2011

                   

Honourable Deputy chairman of Committees, the lawmakers of this country today are debating this Bill on the National Police Academy in the midst of a crisis of lawlessness that has plagued the administration of the police, and as I begin, Hon. Minster of Justice looks in my direction. He the one who, at the time he spoke from his conscience, stated very clearly that everyday the Rule of Law is broken in this country. On Monday the 4^th of October - just two days ago - we heard of the drowning - I repeat, drowning - of a suspect in the Bolgoda lake while he was in police custody during what the police called a ‘scuffle’ between them and the suspect. How many times must such tragedies be endured? ... (Read more)