From Stymieing The Mass-Grave Probe To Postponing The Northern Polls?

By Tisaranee Gunasekara -June 27, 2013 |

“If a people is to pass away,

Then will the furies will just send a man

Who, spreading deceit all over, will indoctrinate

The healthy people in crime…”

Friedrich Hölderlin (The Death of Empedokles)

Chathurika de Silva, the courageous magistrate who placed the rule of law above the law of the rulers, was abruptly transferred out of Matale.

And with that sudden (though hardly unexpected[i]) transfer, the hope of a free and fair inquiry into the Matale mass-grave evaporated.

Magistrate de Silva’s transfer was preceded by the equally sudden (and not-unexpected) transfer of Dr. Ajith Jayasena, the JMO in charge of the case, from Matale to Kurunegala.

From Stymieing the Mass-Grave Probe to Postponing the Northern Polls by nelvely