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The Sun-Times last week endorsed Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s plan for civilian oversight over the Chicago Police Department. This endorsement is based on two faulty premises.
First, contrary to what the Sun-Times asserts in its editorial, the mayor’s proposal is not consistent with what activists have demanded. This is because the mayor’s ordinance takes the community out of community oversight. The mayor’s proposal creates a temporary commission that she will largely hand-select. This temporary commission, controlled by mayoral appointees, will likely retain power for a long time because Mayor Lightfoot’s ordinance will not create a permanent commission that is selected with true community input unless state law is changed. Thus, without a change in state law, the commission responsible for providing oversight over CPD is likely to largely be an extension of the mayor and not representative of communities most impacted by police violence.
By Ermiza Tegal and Amra Ismail
Does the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) keep us safe? How often is it misused? Does it cause unjust suffering to people? If it does cause suffering, how much suffering are we as a society willing to barter for a sense of security? Whose suffering do we barter? What gives us a sense of security, random arrests or actual accountability? These are some of the questions we as Sri Lankan society have not openly confronted or answered in the past 40 years the PTA has been in force. There is much publicly available documentation that torture has been widely committed under the PTA and that the PTA provisions do not meet human rights standards. Yet, these facts have have not moved Sri Lankan society at large to support its reform or repeal.
Posted on May 23rd, 2021
KAMALIKA PIERIS
Sri Lanka has
been taking a defensive position in Geneva, from the first UNHRC resolution in
2012. Always explaining its actions
during and after the conflict, observed Neville Ladduwahetty. This is a flawed
strategy, he said. Instead, Sri Lanka should table a Resolution in the General
Assembly and seek redress.
Sri Lanka
should not have to keep going to the UNHRC to make its case, given that 10
years had now lapsed since the end of the war, said Sarath Amunugama in
Parliament. Its 10 years now since the end of the war. This joke must stop,” he
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