verandah living, also examining at @ExaminerLK
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A crisis manifesto: exorcising debt, hunger and unemployment. Summary 🧵 drive.google.com/file/d/1xJH… 1/14
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Jun 12
The true test of a democracy is not how it treats the majority, but how it protects the rights of every citizen. My recent remarks in Parliament on the Anuradhapura case and the PTA.
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Human Rights Commission investigators took statements from other detainees on the CID’s 6th floor. They had visited Sallay both at the CID, and at the National Hospital.
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Jun 12
Two days after he started his hunger strike, Sallay’s blood sugar levels dropped and he was admitted to the National Hospital. Asith Siriwardena, Sallay’s counsel, says his health has improved. “There is a slight improvement as he’s been given saline.”
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Jun 12
Sallay’s petition to the Court of Appeal calls for the end of his detention, arguing that the “PTA confers drastic coercive powers that trench deeply upon personal liberty”.
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A Human Rights Commission report found over 80% of PTA detainees had been subject to torture.
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Jun 12
Hejaaz Hizbullah, a lawyer previously detained under the PTA, at the same CID 6th floor detention facility when Sallay was the island’s top spy, said that he had seen some detainees with severe bruising and bleeding.
He also attested to vermin infestation and the lack of any furniture in the cell, and said food there was always served in parcels but that they had “lunch sheets”.
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Jun 12
Issue #37: Cult Tuition Amma with "270k" students 🧵
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Jun 11
Just in: Hans Wijayasuriya to lead latest SriLankan restructuring
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Rationale for State of Emergency is unclear. Pres AKD should make a case for it.
SoE was imposed in aftermath of Cyclone Ditwah. Even if US and Israel's sudden war on Iran in March and their impacts/Ditwah recovery efforts underlie ongoing SoE, good practice is to justify it.
Jun 9
Parliament today approved the extension of the State of Public Emergency by a majority of 128 votes.
A total of 135 Members of Parliament voted in favour of the motion, while 7 MPs voted against it.
D: newswire.lk/faap
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Sri Lanka’s economic history this decade.
1️⃣Denial is not a strategy
2️⃣IMF is not a growth strategy
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Jun 9
Macroeconomics made simple by @dhananath:
The @IMFNews programme is not a substitute for a national growth strategy for #lka. Yes, IMF helped us much to stabilize economy after #EconomicCrisisLK, but the rest is in our hands. Does our govt realise it?
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Another beautiful choir rehearsal in the heart of Colombo.
Harin Amirthanathan is a national treasure.
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Jun 5
Last month the Asgiriya Chapter called on 23 drug-smuggling monks to voluntarily leave their robes. But the chapter said that’s “not needed” in the case of Pallegama Hemarathana, a top monk accused of child rape.
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Jun 5
Malwatta hasn’t received any previous complaints against Hemarathana, claims its deputy registrar. The Siam order appoints a chief monk for each locality, and a monk to take charge of legal matters.
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Jun 5
Although the monastic order can expel a monk, they can’t forcibly disrobe a monk. Last year, the Malwatta chapter expelled “about four monks”, after they were first found guilty in civilian courts.
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Jun 5
Galkande Dhammananda pointed to the case of the 23 drug-trafficking monks, when all senior monks called for their disrobing. At the same time, when one of their own is accused of a crime, nobody is calling for his disrobing, he said.
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The Siam order is calling on the government to amend the Buddhist Temporalities Ordinance, to obtain additional powers to enforce discipline like forcible disrobing. But other monks worry about this intermingling of monastic and state powers.
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Jun 5
The NCPA recorded 488 complaints of abuse made against Buddhist monks between 2018 and 2022. The authority’s referrals have resulted in charges against 27 accused monks in the past three years.
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Galkande Dhammananda criticised the caste-based institutions, noting that they have undergone only “little reforms” historically. As such, monks in charge of administering justice locally are inactive and do little.
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Jun 5
Issue #36: Sangha isn’t investigating Pallegama Hemarathna
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