Rajapaksa siblings stand firmly united, will take Sri Lanka forward, says President Gotabaya
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March 13, 2021 17:50 IST
He praised the maturity of his elder brother Mahinda, the Prime Minister, and the younger brother Basil, the key presidential adviser..
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Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, centre, along with his elder brother, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, left, and younger brother, Basil Rajapaksa
He praised the maturity of his elder brother Mahinda, the Prime Minister, and the younger brother Basil, the key presidential adviser..
Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has praised his brothers, saying that all three of them are firmly united and anyone trying to drive a wedge between them will not succeed.
Alan Keenan and K. Mudiyanse
Sri Lanka, long-plagued by political violence and near-complete impunity for crimes by the state and pro-state forces, now faces a new assault on justice and the rule of law. There is a systematic attempt to rewrite the history to make politically-connected criminal suspects into victims, and investigators and legal reformers into criminals.
The unprecedented efforts of the government of Gotabaya Rajapaksa – most strikingly through his presidential commission of enquiry into so-called “political victimisation” – threatens to do more than just eliminate the possibility of justice in the specific cases it is considering.
These specific cases relate to that of political allies of the state, and in instances where Rajapaksa family members are being rescued from prosecution. In doing so, it risks distorting judicial and police procedures, by which the very existence of a meaningful justice system is cast into doubt.