‘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…
Author: Basil Fernando
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…