New Book Launch- නිතිය සහ විනය - බැසිල් ෆ්රනාන්දු කෘතියක්

Dear Friends, A new book in Sinhalese titled Neethiya and Vinaya (Law and Discipline) will be launched at the office of the Movement of Just Society which is situated at the first floor of the Carguills Food City Building in Rajagiriya. The book deals with political science theories and legal theories relating to the state duties for protection of the citizens. It tries to analyse how this duty came to be neglected within the last few decades, particularly after the adoption of the 1978 constitution. Using Easter Sunday bomb blasts which killed over 250 persons at three churches and three tourist hotels, this book tries to analyse the failure on the part of the state and also other political leaders to explain the design, methodology and the persons involved in planning and carrying out the attacks. Using this particular incident, the book examines the neglect of idea of the protection which has now got embedded into all three branches of the government and also all the public institutions. The attempts to explain away the incident is a result of lack of a holistic approach to grasp the extent to which the state apparatus in Sri Lanka has suffered a great fall. The book deals with the problem of failure to ensure people’s security is not a matter relating to one particular incident but is related to the whole structure of the state itself and the long history of failures which have accumulated creating highly disturbing and a chaotic situation. The book also deals with the strategic approach to deal with the whole issue of failures that if not addressed could soon lead to far worse catastrophes. I cordially invite you to be present at the occasion. Thanks & Regards, -- Kingsley Karunaratne, Rule of Law Forum, Colombo. Sri Lanka. 1st August 2019. Phone:+9411 2699155 +9471 6884512