"LTTE’s Balakumar, Pulavar Puthuvai, Lawrence Christy and fates of many others are still not known as the government is maintaining a tight lip silence about their fate. According to news filtering through Colombo sources, these men have been assassinated by the government death squads."
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By Rajasingham Jayadevan
(August 13, London, Sri Lanka Guardian) Many Tamil who have been arrested on suspicion of LTTE connections are not offered legal representations and the situation for the confirmed LTTE members is said to be worse that neither the government has facilitated legal representation nor there is unwillingness on the part of independent legal practitioners to offer their services due to Defence Ministry pressures on the profession.
The latest high figure of the LTTE Kumaran Pathmanathan (KP) arrested and brought to Colombo under international conspiracy and violation of international law too is not legally processed and his investigations are carried under questionable circumstances. Branding of lawyers offering services to such cases by the Defence Ministry as traitors has caused considerable consternation within the legal profession in Sri Lanka.
Whilst such fear is embedded in the judicial process, the fate of some of those arrested in the IDP camps by the army is still not known. LTTE’s Balakumar, Pulavar Puthuvai, Lawrence Christy and fates of many others are still not known as the government is maintaining a tight lip silence about their fate. According to news filtering through Colombo sources, these men have been assassinated by the government death squads. When relatives of some of those presumed dead contacted the ICRC, they were told these LTTE members names are not in their list as arrested persons.
Even the hundreds of Sri Lankan solicitors living overseas, who have the right of representation in the Sri Lankan courts are not coming forward to represent the LTTE men due to fear of the Defence Ministry pressures.
These men’s safety is not under the scrutiny of the international community too and it is said law of the jungle under the Terrorism Act of Sri Lanka is used against them and those surviving will be expected to be meted with Kangaroo Court justice in the lack of independent judicial system in Sri Lanka. -Sri Lanka Guardian
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Arrested Tamils do not have legal representations
By Sri Lanka Guardian • August 13, 2009 • • Comments : 6
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Why terrorists need legal facilities? To kill more people?
Government intelligence has proved it's superiority. If somebody was taken to custody for terrorism charges, it is based on well coordinated evidence. Why people do not have spine to talk about legal support for POWs in Guantanamo. Did they come there by their own wish? Or, abducted? We didn't here any human rights group was talking about this.
Bravo Lasitha !
Lasitha
You will find the Guantanamo prisoners/inmates all had legal representation. The level of legal representation was questionable as some had more than the others.
As for the LTTE big shots I would rather have them serve life sentence or even capital punishment after going through the due process. By the same account some of the ministers in the SL government should be tried for various human rights violations too.
Lasitha
You will find the Guantanamo prisoners/inmates all had legal representation. The level of legal representation was questionable as some had more than the others.
As for the LTTE big shots I would rather have them serve life sentence or even capital punishment after going through the due process. By the same account some of the ministers in the SL government should be tried for various human rights violations too.
I wonder where the writer was when LTTE executed people by hear say, not even a summary trial. The LTTE suspects, who were committed to those principles, now stay put by the same standards. We know some of these eloquent writers on LTTE pay roll coughing similar arguments. Even some a saying KPs arrest is illegal, and the trial should take place where he was apprehended. What a funny argument. If you murder someone, you simply have to leave the country, and you are scot free. These people at least are merciful to suggest that such criminals should be returned to the place they committed the offence is some good legal sense. This is the American justice. The rich always get away to other countries after committing blue or white collar crimes, and that is the end of punishment. Do we have to bow down to such third class jurist prudence?
kahagalle,
Arsenal's whereabout are none of your business, unless you work for Sri Lanka's Minstry of Defence.
LOL
Arsenal's comments are fair minded in that he wants the rule of law applied equally to all. Is it irony & tragedy that Lanka's current President was a human rights activist who urged the UN to investigate when the victims of disappearnce in were mostly Sinhalese but now heads a govt that disappears (mostly) Tamils and works to keep UN human rights investigators out of the country.
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