by Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry in Dawn, August 27th, 2023The writer is a former foreign secretary of PakistanJARANWALA, a small town near Lahore, has shot into prominence, but for the wrong reasons. What happened there on Aug 16, 2023 represents another low in our history of communal intolerance, with local community leaders and law-enforcement authorities appearing totally helpless in preventing the mob from targeting dozens of Christian families, their houses and churches. For a country whose…
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by Sahan Tennekoon in The Morning, May 31, 2023The Cabinet of Ministers, on Monday (29), granted its approval to the joint proposal submitted by Minister of Justice, Prisons Affairs, and Constitutional Reforms President’s Counsel (PC) Dr. Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe and Minister of Foreign Affairs M.U.M. Ali Sabry PC for the establishment of a truth and reconciliation mechanism in Sri Lanka, taking into account the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in South Africa. Speaking…
by Binod Ghimire in The Kathmandu Post, Mar 10, 2023The government on Thursday brought a bill to amend the Enforced Disappearances Enquiry, Truth and Reconciliation Act retaining most of the “controversial provisions” from the previous bill that couldn’t get through the parliament last year. The Ministry of Law and Justice registered the bill at Parliament Secretariat following a Cabinet nod on Thursday morning. The new bill, like the previous one, hasn’t listed murder as a…