UK High Commissioner Vacancy: Mahinda Wants Shiranee But Gota Pushes For Colomboge

November 1, 2014

The talk of the capital is that the President Mahinda Rajapaksa wants to appoint retired Supreme Court Justice Shiranee Tilakawardane as the new Hight Commissioner to the United Kingdom.

Justice Shiranee Tilakawardane

Justice Shiranee Tilakawardane has given false evidence before Parliamentary Select Committee on impeaching the Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake. As Colombo Telegraph reported earlier, there was a finding by the infamous Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) that the case commonly known as the “Trillium Case” was wrongly taken before a bench presided by CJ Bandaranayake by CJ Banadaranayake herself. To arrive at this finding the PSC mainly relied on the evidence of Justice Shiranee Thilakawardene and PSC stated in its report that they believe and accept Justice Thilakawardene’s evidence in toto without hesitance.

Meanwhile the President’s brother, Secretary to the Ministry of Defence Gotabaya Rajapaksa is pushing for Ex-Navy Chief Jayanath Colombage instead of Shiranee, Colombo Telegraph reliably learns.

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Border Aggression and Civilian Massacres – Part 7

After Ravi Jayewardene’s return from Is- rael, the Saturday Review, then edited by Gamini Navaratne, carried on 8.9.84 a Special Correspondent’s piece titled, ‘The Is-raeli Connection’. It said, “The Government is steadily and feverishly working at a crash plan policy of land settlement under Mahaveli as well as Dry- Zone areas of the North and East. They have sought technical know how”. The report quoted the Veerakesari of 23 Aug.84, which stated that after a high-level conference in Colombo it has been decided to redemarcate parts of Vavuniya with Madawachchiya (see also Chapters 13-15).

In filling out the story of how this singular project was implemented, we have, apart from published sources and interviews, also relied on a detailed document covering this period prepared by the Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF). This was done at the request of Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi of India, and was kindly made available to us. References to it will be acknowledged by [TULF].

Apart from its moral depravity, the event is singular for its reckless folly. Sri Lanka was a small, highly dependent country whose relations with India, its giant neighbour, had been badly mismanaged. The country was being placed on a course where it was flagrantly in breach of international humanitarian law as defined by the Geneva Conventions. At this point, the conflict was no more than a local low-intensity conflict. Nevertheless, as we have pointed out (see Sect.14.5), by the very methods being used, the Government was upgrading the internal conflict to look like an International Armed Conflict. There are still many in Colombo who advocate even more of this kind.                                       Read More