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Author: Basil Fernando

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Colombo, Economy, Human Rights, Politics and Governance

Ensuring Political Stability for Economic Recovery

The Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL) calling the IGP and the Army Commander for questioning about the failure to prevent the attack on peaceful demonstrators on May 9 is an…

Basil Fernando Basil Fernando on 05/13/2022
Colombo, Constitutional Reform, Economy, Human Rights, justice, Politics and Governance

People’s Uprising for System Change

April and May 2022 will be remembered as the most important months in the post-independence era. During this short period the much hoped for people’s awakening expressed itself powerfully. People who wielded…

Basil Fernando Basil Fernando on 05/11/2022
Colombo, Constitutional Reform, Politics and Governance

The Need to Restore Judicial Review

Many discussions are taking place concerning the issue of restoring democracy by way of undoing the executive presidential system. As a way of achieving this, the suggestion is for the abolition of…

Basil Fernando Basil Fernando on 05/05/202205/05/2022
Colombo, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA)

Abolishing PTA is the Only Way Out

Justice The Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) (Amendment) Bill, a bill to amend the Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Act, No. 48 of 1979 (PTA), has been gazetted by the order of…

Basil Fernando Basil Fernando on 02/02/202202/02/2022
Colombo, Constitutional Reform, Politics and Governance

The Essentials of Participatory Constitution Making

Sri Lanka has entered into a period of crisis that is worse than it has ever faced in recent history. The economic and financial crises will last for a long time even…

Basil Fernando Basil Fernando on 01/21/202201/21/2022
Colombo, Human Rights, justice, Peace and Conflict, Reconciliation, Transitional Justice

Desmond Tutu: The Man Who Revived the Moral Universe

Archbishop Desmond Tutu who passed away this week will be counted among the great human beings who contributed to the political transformation of his own country and a person who revolutionised the…

Basil Fernando Basil Fernando on 12/29/2021
Colombo, Constitutional Reform, Politics and Governance

The Need for People’s Participation in Constitution Making

A fake constitution alters the rules of logic that are the basic foundations of a good constitution. The change of logic leads to irrationality. The spread of irrationality into public institutions creates…

Basil Fernando Basil Fernando on 12/26/202112/26/2021
Colombo, Human Rights, justice, Politics and Governance

Downgrading Human Rights Commission No Remedy for Victims

The recommendation to downgrade Sri Lanka’s Human Rights Commission (HRC) from Grade A to Grade B by the International Coordinating Committee of National Institutions for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights,…

Basil Fernando Basil Fernando on 12/14/2021
Colombo, Human Rights, justice, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Transitional Justice

The Constitutional Roots of the Problem of Disappearances

There is a bagful of tricks that Sri Lankan governments have been using when it comes to the issue of revealing the truth and providing justice to the families of the disappeared.…

Basil Fernando Basil Fernando on 11/24/202111/24/2021
Colombo, Human Rights, justice, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

One Country, One Law; No Law Enforcement, No Law

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s appointment of Presidential Task Force mandated to implement the One Country, One Law concept, headed by radical monk Galagodaaththe Gnanasara Thera, is a clear indication that another period of…

Basil Fernando Basil Fernando on 10/29/202111/09/2021
Colombo, Constitutional Reform, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

Beware: The Third Readymade Constitution is Coming Soon

Professor G.L. Peiris has announced that the drafting process of the Constitution is over and that the text is ready. He said that it was to be presented to the Parliament in…

Basil Fernando Basil Fernando on 10/22/2021
Colombo, Human Rights, justice, Politics and Governance

Proposed Amendment to Criminal Code is a Grave Setback for Human Rights

The proposed Code of Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Bill to amend the Code of Criminal Procedure Act No. 15 of 1979 will open up a Pandora’s box of serious abuses. In essence what…

Basil Fernando Basil Fernando on 10/13/202110/13/2021
Colombo, Human Rights, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War, Reconciliation, Transitional Justice

New Mechanisms Required to Ensure Justice for the Disappeared

Today of the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances “Sri Lanka has the world’s second-highest number of cases registered with the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances.…

Basil Fernando Basil Fernando on 08/30/202108/30/2021
Colombo, Political philosophy, Politics and Governance

From Fantasy to Nightmare: The Myth of Absolute Power

After many years of being a politician in various capacities, J.R. Jayewardene had come to the conclusion that if he could rule all by himself without any restraints, he could do a…

Basil Fernando Basil Fernando on 08/26/202108/26/2021
Colombo, Politics and Governance

People’s Resilience and Judicial Independence

The people of Sri Lanka, like those in several other countries, are learning that their past could cost them their lives and the lives of their loved ones and those of many…

Basil Fernando Basil Fernando on 08/18/202108/19/2021

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