Account for Wartime Disappearances; More Than 20 People Last Seen in Army Custody Remain Missing

Sri Lanka Brief Weekly Update No 02 – Monday 11 April 2011
Can the state law office deny the right to justice? Very few thinking people in Sri Lanka will assert in all good conscience that the office of the Attorney General has been free from political controversy as a matter of historical fact. Public perception of the office of the Attorney General at its lowest ebb.The reality is, of course, far more complex than simplistically attributing the present decline of the country’s premier state law office to a greedy grasp for power and more power on the part of present-day politicians. READ MORE http://www.srilankabrief.org/2011/04/can-state-law-office-deny-right-to.html#more	Rule of Law, Independence of judiciary
No action, talk only, says Suresh (of TNA) The UPFA government and the TNA are now put to face each other and both teams are engrossed in talks to find a solution to the day to day problems faced by the Tamils of North-East. Already four rounds of talks have been held between these parties. However on April 29 the all important talks will commence and that will be on the political solution to the ethnic crisis. READ MORE http://www.srilankabrief.org/2011/04/no-action-talk-only-says-suresh.html#more	Political solution, Tamil Rights
President’s family ‘dominates’ Sri Lanka The US annual report on human rights says that the government of Sri Lanka, a multi-party democracy, is dominated by the president’s family. “Two of the brothers hold key executive branch posts as defense secretary and minister of economic development, while a third brother is the speaker of parliament,” says the report. READ MORE http://www.srilankabrief.org/2011/04/presidents-family-dominates-sri-lanka.html#more	Family rule, Rule of law
Account for Wartime Disappearances; More Than 20 People Last Seen in Army Custody Remain Missing The Sri Lankan government should account for everyone who was taken into custody at the end of Sri Lanka’s 26-year-long armed conflict in May 2009 and are feared to have been “disappeared,” Human Rights Watch said today. READ MORE – http://www.srilankabrief.org/2011/04/sri-lanka-account-for-wartime.html	Accountability, war crimes
Attorney General ‘cannot withdraw charges’ – Former CJ Sarath Silva The former Chief Justice (CJ) of Sri Lanka has questioned the legality of Attorney General’s (AG) withdrawal of murder and rape charges filed against government politicians. READ MORE http://www.srilankabrief.org/2011/04/attorney-general-cannot-withdraw.html#more	Independence of judiciary
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