Impeachment
The government’s plan to impeach Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake appears to be running
into unforeseen problems. The indications are now that the government’s charge sheet against the Chief Justice is not as watertight as the proponents of the impeachment motion had believed. In addition, opposition to the impeachment has come from an unexpected quarter. The four […]

UNITED NATIONS, November 13, 2012: While the UN has tried to sweep under the carpet its inaction and worse during the killing of tens of thousands of civilians in Sri Lanka in 2009, the thread they couldn’t make go away was the report on the UN’s own performance.
They tried to make it go away
They tried: after […]

Sovereignty of the Sri Lankan People under the 1978 Constitution is one and indivisible.
“Sovereignty of the Sri Lankan People under the 1978 Constitution is one and indivisible It
remains with the People. It is only the exercise of certain Legislative, Executive and Judicial powers of the Sovereign People that are delegated to the Parliament, the Executiveand the Judiciary under Article 4. Fundamental […]

“There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.”
– Walt Whitman
Fascinating story
Impeachment motions in Sri Lanka have a fascinating history. It is a story that can be told by
grandparents to their grandchildren, captivating the ever-elusive attention of the […]

“I have been thinking that I would make a
proposition to my Republican friends… that if they
will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will
stop telling the truth about them.” 
– Adlai E. Stevenson
On a cold, chilly autumn night in 2008, in the State of Iowa that had less than one percent (1%)
of ‘Black’ […]

Theruni Sebastiampillai participated at the French-Sri Lankan Diaspora Youth Workshop “Post-War Reconciliation Dialogue for a Sustainable Peace”, which took place in Paris, on October 27th, 2012. She participated as a panelist on the theme “Individual and collective identity(ies): between search and struggle”.
The event was organized by What’s Next!, an independent forum comprising of post-graduates and […]

In Search of Reconciliation
In the market place of ideas, the concepts and language of reconciliation have become quite popularized and at the same time diluted. Coming out of the turmoil of the South African political transition of the 1990s, it became abundantly clear to me that the term reconciliation was easily ‘hijacked’ to serve the particular interests […]

Q: In the fifteenth chapter of the Gita, there is a description of a tree which is upside down. The branches are in the ground and the roots are in the sky. What could be the significance of this?
A: This is a symbol to signify that your origin is the Divinity; the consciousness. That is […]

The government’s decision to impeach Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake on the grounds of alleged misbehavior is a controversial one. It is extraordinary in a democratic society for a chief justice to be faced with charges that are said to merit impeachment.
Timing
During her long tenure on the Supreme Court Justice Bandaranayake since 1996 she has maintained […]

The Rajapaksha Regime, through its parliamentarians, handed over an impeachment motion to the Speaker, the elder brother of the President Rajapaksha against the first woman Chief Justice of the country.
It appears that the Government of Sri Lanka is in a mighty hurry to “get rid of the Chief Justice”
so that a major obstacle for […]