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Country will be lawless if executive acts its own, says Chief Justice
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Gaja
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 13 Jan 2009 22:38:30 GMT Report for Abuse
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Who is disrespectful for not accepting own bodies? LTTP is nowhere to be seen.
You mean LTTE are more respectful of the Geneva Convention than the GOSL?
They have parents and other relatives. Why is GOSL not able to find them? |
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 13 Jan 2009 22:43:24 GMT Report for Abuse
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Does the Geneva Convention not say anything about this?
The Geneva Convention governs the activities of armies of sovereign nations/countries. The LTTE is not an army of a country as defined by the convention and therefore the convention does not apply as it does not apply in any conflict that results from a country that is acting against an internal insurgency. You can take that to the Hauge |
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 13 Jan 2009 22:46:41 GMT Report for Abuse
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You fight together and if your collegue dies it is your responsibility to accept the body from your enemy and hand it over to the relatives.
Even If ICRC as a mediator can not find the LTTP at least, how come GOSL can find the relatives of dead LTTP cadres? |
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13 Jan 2009 22:50:04 GMT Report for Abuse
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| Thank you Bassa. In that case did the Government of Sri Lanka have the mandate of the United Nations to wage war against its own citizens? By its own constition it would have had the power to defend when attacked. But did it have the power to attack its own citizens? |
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13 Jan 2009 22:52:26 GMT Report for Abuse
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Bolanda,
You fight together and if your collegue dies it is your responsibility to accept the body from your enemy and hand it over to the relatives.
Is that what Rohana Wijeweera did?
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 13 Jan 2009 22:53:23 GMT Report for Abuse
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| In Sri Lanka the law of the jungle supersedes and over-rules the laws of the civilised world. |
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13 Jan 2009 22:55:47 GMT Report for Abuse
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In Sri Lanka the law of the jungle supersedes and over-rules the laws of the civilised world.
Why? Because the law of the civilized world is largely for the rich and the famous. |
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13 Jan 2009 22:57:09 GMT Report for Abuse
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In that case did the Government of Sri Lanka have the mandate of the United Nations to wage war against its own citizens?
no, but it sure has the right to defend its citizens from terrorist and criminals like they did with JVP when it was a terra organization and like they are doing with LTTE. Citizens of any country do not have a constitutional right to take up arms against the government and SL is no exception |
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13 Jan 2009 23:04:36 GMT Report for Abuse
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Citizens of any country do not have a constitutional right to take up arms against the government and SL is no exception
That is the theory. In reality - GOSL has accepted the likes of Karuna - and hence has established that it does not practice that law. May have been considered to be good management. If yes, it must now extend to the slain soldiers who through Natural Justice also believed that they were protecting their own. Anyone who raises the weapon to protect is upholding justice. I'm confident that the laws of Sri Lanka also provide for this. If not, the judiciary are really failing at the fundamental level. Hence the cry over petrol prices.
Edited By - Gaja - 13 Jan 2009 23:07:27 GMT |
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