Good Governance and Political Will

Photograph: ISHARA S.KODIKARA/AFP/Getty Images via The Guardian

• by Tisaranee Gunasekara 
• - on 12/13/2015 

“Error is cowardice…”
Nietzsche (Ecce Homo)

The military is a microcosm of the society it comes from. Lankan society has been experiencing a ceaseless wave of violent crime at least from 2006. The fact that murder and rape proliferate does not mean every Lankan is a murderer or a rapist.

There have been several incidents of uniformed men committing crimes against ordinary citizens, including child rape, even outside of the North and the East. This doesn’t mean that all military men are criminals; it merely means that some are. And they should be brought to justice, irrespective of their war record or the ethnicity of their victim.

Good Governance and Political Will by Thavam Ratna