{"id":59631,"date":"2012-11-10T19:05:11","date_gmt":"2012-11-10T19:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=59631"},"modified":"2012-11-18T10:25:51","modified_gmt":"2012-11-18T10:25:51","slug":"shirani-violated-the-rule-of-sinhala-chauvinism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/shirani-violated-the-rule-of-sinhala-chauvinism\/","title":{"rendered":"Shirani Violated The Rule Of Sinhala Chauvinism"},"content":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0Vickramabahu Karunaratne<\/a><\/span>\u00a0–<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Dr. Vickramabahu Karunaratne<\/p><\/div>\n

In the domain of liberal democracy a motion to impeach a judge of the Supreme Court is a serious matter. That is permissible only if either there is suspicion of insanity or some problem akin to it. Analysis of any impeachments of any judge in the post modern world show that whole intelligencia in that country and in related countries were participant in one way or the other in the judgment. It was a public, transparent affair where intimidation, political pressure and discrimination were brought to a minimum. Such a clear show was necessary to counter what happened under both fascism and Stalinism. It was made transparent so that the public were generally aware of the allegations – before those allegations are formally brought up. Here the situation is very different. Mahinda regime preached about the responsibility of the judiciary and the respect given by the people to the judges and magistrates. Indirectly people were made to suspect CJ of great misbehavior. However, still the public are not aware of \u00a0details of the allegations against Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayke<\/a><\/span>. Whole thing was submerged in secrecy. There were campaigns, all political, against the CJ. Already, in public domain she is convicted of treachery and indecency. Village humbugs who rule the country, there by, has converted her to a modern day Jesus Christ. It is clear that she is victimized for exposing the limitations of the parliament and the central government, in relation to the 13th amendment<\/a><\/span>. That is the greatest sin she has committed. Jesus became a conspirator and a criminal, because he preached all humans are equal and of single divine birth. Shirani has to bear the cross for telling that devolved power to the provinces cannot be simply over ruled; that power sharing in the 13th<\/sup>\u00a0amendment is real. Her decision exposed the hypocrisy of Mahinda chinthanaya<\/a><\/span>. That is her real crime. Gallantly she dismissed the ridiculous claim by the president that he consulted the northern Tamil people by getting the signature of the soldier appointed by him to lead the military rule there. She threw her dismissal on the face of the man who was directing an impeachment against her. Jesus went against the laws of the\u00a0Roman Empire\u00a0and the Jewish claim of selected race, when\u00a0he said all humans are equal. In the same manner Shirani violated the rule of Sinhala chauvinism<\/a><\/span> when she ruled that 13th amendment obstructs the parliament in relation to the devolved subject.<\/p>\n

Mahinda<\/a><\/span> so far maintained his support to the 13th amendment indirectly, as long as it is a mechanism for decentralization and diversification. But it cannot be a power sharing mechanism. When Shirani made it clear that the constitution and the 13th amendment stands for some thing different and devolution is already there, regime went into utmost crisis. Now they do not care for the rule of law or the constitution. What they want is to frighten and terrorize all those who are prepared to defend sharing of power. So it is clear that Shirani has to be crucified in order to save the great hero of war, man who finished the idea of Tamil liberation. She has become the goat to be sacrificed for the unitary state of Sinhala chauvinists. The struggle of the government is not within the law. It is already a war conducted by terror and wild allegations. She is threatened to deny and change the ruling she has given already. There is clear evidence to establish that the government was involved in the attack on JSC secretary, Manjula<\/a><\/span>. Also it is clear that political mudslinging at Shirani is backed by the regime.\u00a0In fact\u00a0GL<\/a><\/span> behaved like a Stalinist Red professor in the recent adjournment debate in Parliament on JSC. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, in real terms, justified the attack on the JSC on the basis that its Secretary was appointed contrary to the constitution. He argued that according to the Constitution, only the senior most member of the minor judiciary can be appointed as the Secretary of the JSC.\u00a0\u00a0 Manjula was 29th in the seniority list; and therefore should not have been appointed as Secretary.\u00a0 There are no such provisions in the Constitution and it exists only in the head of the local Red Professor. Out side parliament, using state media setup, the government is having a carnival of mud slinging and false propaganda against a woman who has given a historic judgment.<\/p>\n

Mahinda knows that the parliament cannot act as a court in this case. It is clear that cases such as these are to be decided by courts and institutions that have been established to adjudicate judicially. However, MPs are made to believe that they can become a universal court in the name of the people. What they really expect is for this woman to break down and cry for help. In that way they expect to remove a stumbling block in their path to arbitrary rule. Time has come for all of us to defend the women carrying the cross on her shoulders. She may have done her job neatly not knowing the historic value of her stand and may be she has made mistakes in her judicial carrier. She and her family may not be the true example of a committed house hold living according to norms and traditions within the Lankan society. But, whether she likes it or not, she is in the middle of a struggle against injustice and discrimination. That makes her the women carrying the cross on her shoulder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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