Frederica Jansz, Former Editor of The Sunday Chief, penned these ideas on the 14th loss of life anniversary of Lasantha Wickrematunge.
Final 12 months, on the Could thirteenth listening to of The Folks’s Tribunal at The Hague, there was compelling proof introduced by witnesses which named the very best within the land as having been complicit within the homicide of Lasantha Wickrematunge.
Nonetheless, suspects have been launched on bail, and official proceedings with regard to the case have all floor to a halt. A person who has blatantly dedicated probably the most heinous crimes in opposition to journalists might fairly presumably be related to the homicide of Lasantha Wickrematunge.
In some unspecified time in the future, there must be justice. The Sri Lankan media is dutybound to proceed to carry accountable people who search public workplace, those that in doing so, have plundered the coffers of a as soon as thriving economic system, and people who have introduced a whole nation to its knees.
Silence has turn out to be the first instrument whereby the state seeks to regulate the organs of liberty. As journalists and judges have been silenced, as a whole individuals’s motion has been subjugated, by no means have the dangers been greater or the stakes decrease.
Our voices might sound distasteful and distorted, a lot so, the Sri Lankan State continues to bomb its personal residents, however by no means has the time been extra opportune than now to boost the decision for justice. To carry accountable those that are responsible of committing probably the most treacherous of crimes in opposition to humanity.
It’s time all Sri Lankans, collectively as a nation, stroll tall and bow to no man. It’s time to stand collectively in opposition to those that have proved themselves to be traitors and name out their names.
If there was one man, I used to be lucky sufficient to know and work alongside who did simply that – it was Lasantha. Allow us to not let his legacy die with him. The least we are able to do is identify his killers, together with the person who masterminded his killing. Regardless of how highly effective that man could also be or might have been, then allow us to say his identify, over and over, till justice is served.
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