By Ranga Suriya in Daily Mirror, Nov 22, 2023Last week, the Supreme Court ruled that the three Rajapaksa brothers and a cabal of officials were responsible for the economic crisis, delivering an unprecedented judgement that could be the precursor to Sri Lanka’s long march for justice. The Court ruled by the majority judgment that the Rajapaksa brothers and five of their acolytes who were handpicked to the top government positions “had demonstrably contributed to the…
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By A.J. Abeynayake in The Island, Nov 15, 2023The Supreme Court yesterday (14) ruled that former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, former Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and former Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa and several others are responsible for the ongoing economic crisis. The bench comprised Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya, PC, Buwaneka Aluwihare, Priyantha Jayawardena, Vijith K. Malalgoda and Murdu Fernando. The five-judge bench by a margin of five-to-one determined that the Rajapaksa brothers as well as former…
By Vishwamithra – in The Colombo Telegraph online, June 23, 2023The current frail sociopolitical culture cannot withstand a near or total collapse of our national economic life. It is increasingly becoming clear that a system change is not possible, at least in the immediate future. Decades of rot caused by sheer mismanagement of state affairs supplemented by errant corruption running through the entire civil society have shown us that a society that is being held…