“We will hunt you down and kill you like a dog”

Eye Witness        Lanka Independent   

Poddala Jayantha (at left) was known for his beard. Here he is seen accepting an award for Journalistic Excellence at the Editors Guild Award Ceremony in Sri Lanka

I feel it would have been better if they had killed me rather than subject me to that inhuman degrading torture. To go back to that time is to re-live every painful moment. The day I was abducted and tortured is seared in my memory. Branded upon my soul. The words of my abductors lash out at me, I heard them then, I hear them now as I write this article.         Read More
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Lanka Independent

Chief Justice or husband must resign

By Uvindu Kurukulasuriya | Published on June 4, 2011 at 7:37 am

Newly appointed Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake poses with her husband Pradeep Kariyawasam and President Rajapakse immediately after the oath taking ceremony on 18 May 2011
“All the four Judges of the Court were on the bench. Wright… had been raised to this high place over the heads of many abler and learned men solely on account of his unscrupulous  servility. Allibone was a Papist, and owed his situation to that dispensing power, the legality of which was now in question. Holloway had hitherto been a serviceable tool of the government. Even Powell, whose character for honesty stood high, had borne a part in some proceedings which it is impossible to defend… The government had required from its law officers services so odious and disgraceful that all the ablest jurists and advocates of the Tory party had, one after the other, refused to comply, and had been dismissed from their employments.”  -  Lord Macaulay, from The History of England: The King’s Bench in 1688 under James II, at the trial of the Seven Bishops.       Full Story>>>
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  “We can fix cases, we can free people” – Mahinda Rajapakse

In a shocking revelation, a former army intelligence officer Kandegedara Priyawansa told the Mount Lavinia Magistrate 12th May 2011 that he was instructed by the Officer in Charge (OIC) of the Terrorist Investigations Department (TID) to claim that a top army official was involved in the killing of former Sunday Leader Editor Lasantha Wickramatunga. The [...]
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