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The Sri Lankan public has seen its fair share of bizarre political developments over the past few years, but never has the drama taken on dimensions of high farce as in the ongoing standoff between the executive and the judiciary. In a turn of events that unfold like the ‘theatre of the absurd,’ the country’s [...]
The President and Sri Lanka’s judiciary
The attack on the Secretary of the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) last Sunday, which some have read justifiably as an attempted abduction, is certainly quite unprecedented in the history of this country. We may have had tensions between the judiciary and the executive before. But the level of impunity with which this attack was carried [...]