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Author: Basil Fernando

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Colombo, Elections, Language, Media and Communications, Politics and Governance, Post-War

‘Uncivilising’ Sri Lanka

The SLPC Chairperson, Hudson Samarasinghe, is using vulgar telecasts and thereby contributing to the degeneration of language and public discourse within the country. The rudest forms of language used to refer to…

Basil Fernando Basil Fernando on 12/29/200912/27/2009
Colombo, Constitutional Reform, Politics and Governance

Dealing with law and order as an issue of the Presidential elections

A crucial issue for any type of stability and for good governance in Sri Lanka is the restoration of law and order. Litanies of complaints have been made by politicians and almost…

Basil Fernando Basil Fernando on 12/01/2009
Disabilities, Human Rights, Human Security, Media and Communications, Politics and Governance

The duty to talk loudly about Police Reforms

Police Reform was the theme of a discussion organised by the Commonwealth Initiative in Delhi last week. Among the participants were senior police officers from South Asian countries including a few who…

Basil Fernando Basil Fernando on 11/05/2009
Colombo, Human Rights, Politics and Governance

Criminal Justice and Impunity – The Distinction between Genuine and Counterfeit Actions for Justice

The creation of counterfeits in any field of human activity is a result of borrowings and imitations which do not originate from a genuine understanding of the problems and issues that the…

Basil Fernando Basil Fernando on 10/18/2009
Colombo, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War

The arson attack on Ranga Bandara’s house and office: Democracy under attack in Sri Lanka

The second burning of an opposition politician’s house took place within the last 48 hours (Sunday evening). However, the incident is being treated trivially by the government as well as society. A…

Basil Fernando Basil Fernando on 10/06/2009
Colombo, Politics and Governance

Defending repression and denying repression are very different

Dayan during President Premadasa’s time defended Stalinist repression in an article published in the Daily News. To defend repression and to deny the existence of repression are two different things. There may…

Basil Fernando Basil Fernando on 10/01/2009
Colombo, Human Rights, Human Security, IDPs and Refugees, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War

Sri Lanka is in fact a Gulag Island: A response to Dayan Jayatilaka and the mentality of the phantom limb

Dayan Jayatilaka begins his article with the words, “I am proud of my country, Sri Lanka.” To demonstrate the differences in our points of view I would like to begin by stating…

Basil Fernando Basil Fernando on 09/28/2009

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