A Brief Colonial History Of Ceylon(SriLanka)
Sri Lanka: One Island Two Nations
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Sri Lanka: One Island Two Nations
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Thiranjala Weerasinghe sj.- One Island Two Nations
?????????????????????????????????????????????????Saturday, May 27, 2017
PCs Celebrate In Five–Star Hotels While Close To 200 Flood Victims Die Or Are Missing
While at least 91 persons have died, a further reported 110 have been
reported missing and thousands have been rendered homeless to date due
to severe floods and mudslides due to inclement weather which has swept
through Sri Lanka during the past days, several President’s Counsel
newly appointed by President Maithripala Sirisena celebrated in style on
Friday night (26th) wining and dining at Colombo’s swanky five star
hotels.
Among those who lavishly celebrated was anti-corruption activist JC Weliamuna who held his event at the Cinnamon Grand, Colombo.
Meanwhile, senior trade union activists who had been invited by Transparency International, Sri Lanka (TISL)
to take part in a conference on Right to Information (RTI) on Saturday
27th May declined the invite on grounds of conscience, saying that they
could not participate in a discussion on RTI held by an organisation
whose functioning was contradictory to the basic principles of RTI.
They pointed out that RTI requests to TISL filed by several senior trade
union activists in regard to providing documents indicating serious
internal financial and management irregularities in the organisation had
been declined on non-justifiable grounds by TISL Executive Director
Asoka Obeyesekere.
The documents asked for included information relevant to the
discontinuing of senior TISL staff who had been whistleblowers on
fraudulent acts committed by TISL. The staff members were not given the
report of an inquiry carried out by (then) Chairman of TISL Lakshan Dias
and (then) Director, JC Weliamuna into the relevant incidents even
though they and other members of TISL who stood up against the injustice
committed, repeatedly asked for the document.