Shirani, Vijitha & Sambanthan noticed

TUESDAY, 30 APRIL 2013 

The Supreme Court issued notice today (30th) on former Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake, the Information Secretary of the JVP Parliamentarian Vijitha Herath and TNA leader Parliamentarian R. Sampanthan to appear before court on the 29th May.

The three have been noticed allowing an appeal by Attorney General challenging the order of the Court of Appeal nullifying the Parliamentary Select Committee which conducted Dr. Bandaranayake’s impeachment.

The petition was heard by a panel of judges consisting of Saleem Marzuk, Sathya Hettige and Eva Wanasundara.

A special appeal to all our supporters

Tuesday, 30 April 2013

No Fire Zone works: It shocks, it informs, and it changes minds. But it can only do that if people go on seeing it.

The next few months are critical for the campaign for justice and accountability in Sri Lanka.

With the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting scheduled for November and the UN Human Rights Council due to meet in September - and again next March - we need to take our film and our message around the world. We want to ensure the film is seen by governments, politicians – but also by the people who elect them and call them to account. We want to take the film to countries in Asia, Africa and the Americas. We want to build local campaigns in those countries for justice and accountability.

But to do that we need resources.

So far we have been generously supported by the supporters and funders who are listed on our website. But now we are running out of money for the next stage.

And that is why we are launching a Kickstarter campaign.

Kickstarter is a crowd-source funding website. Anyone can go to the website and read about our project and make a pledge. There are rewards for those who do. But there is a condition. We have just thirty days to meet our target. If we don’t - we get anything – and your pledge is not taken from you.

Our minimum target is £20,000. But we hope that will only be a start. The more we get the more we can do. The more countries we can take the film to the more the campaign for truth, justice and accountability will grow.

Please support us.

We will release our URL on our twitter account @nofirezonemovie and on our Facebook site after 5pm EST.

Launch date Tuesday 30th 5pm EST. (Live from Wednesday 1st UK time). Keep an eye out for the announcement of the URL!