The Island, March 23
It is with shock and dismay that we note a minister’s wife serving a prison term for double murder and two foreigners jailed for heroin smuggling have walked to freedom on the International Women’s Day thanks to a presidential pardon. Ironically, Mary Juliet Monica Fernando, (wife of Public Estate Management and Development Minister Milroy Fernando), was sentenced to death in 2005 for abducting and murdering two women and her death penalty was later commuted to life imprisonment! That was how Sri Lanka celebrated a day sacred to the womenfolk!
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| A crying shame!- An Editorial | |
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The Academic
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   A crying shame!- An Editorial |
| Sun Mar 22, 2009 8:38 pm |    |
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vishvajith
Joined: 17 Jun 2005 Posts: 215
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Oh Please, relax. In Srilanka as you the publisher knows and cohorts to, to criticize the Govt now mounts to " treason ". Either you are with them or you are against them.
This article clearly will puts you in bad shape. Unless of course you know who behind all the murders and the murderers and you will get a " pass ". Too bad, So sad. Indeed. _________________ " The Old wounds, the old battles. They and we, and no place in the middle " - Authour Unknown. |
| Tue Mar 24, 2009 5:02 pm | |
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MAC1
Joined: 07 Mar 2007 Posts: 980
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Convicted for murder and walks away within 4 years on women’s day, they could have released all the women prisoners. This will make the crime rate 0%
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| Sat Mar 28, 2009 2:24 pm | |
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