{"id":67113,"date":"2012-12-30T09:33:42","date_gmt":"2012-12-30T09:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=67113"},"modified":"2013-01-04T02:06:49","modified_gmt":"2013-01-04T02:06:49","slug":"its-the-government-that-destabilizes-the-country-lfd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/its-the-government-that-destabilizes-the-country-lfd\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It&#8217;s The Government That Destabilizes The Country&#8217; &#8211; LfD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/\">Colombo Telegraph<\/a><\/span> &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Responding to the statement of the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Gotabaya+Rajapaksa&amp;x=12&amp;y=4\">Defence Secretary<\/a><\/span> that some\u00a0 local and foreign elements are trying to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/video-foreign-and-local-elements-are-attempting-to-destabilise-sri-lanka-through-the-judiciary-gota\/\">destabilize the country<\/a><\/span> through the Judiciary, Lawyers for Democracy asks how a Secretary to a Ministry, being a public official, makes such an\u00a0 irresponsible political statement.&#8221; says\u00a0Lawyers for Democracy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Issuing a statement Lawyers for Democracy (LfD) reminds the public that it is\u00a0 the Executive, through selected Members of Parliament in the legislature, that has taken a series of major steps, including an unwarranted politically\u00a0 motivated impeachment of the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Shirani+Bandaranayake&amp;x=12&amp;y=4\">Chief Justice<\/a><\/span>, to undermine the democratic values of the country. These actions have exposed Sri Lanka for further scrutiny by the international community, who are under international legal obligations to ensure that the member states follow these international obligations. The manner in which the Executive and the state media behave establishes that the Government has destabilized Sri Lanka and its constitutional values. 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