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January 29, 2016

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EPISODE – LXV
TOPIC: Time for Justice in Sri Lanka
BLOG: The New York Times
WRITER: The opinion Page
GENRE: Editorial

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Just a little over a year ago, voters in Sri Lanka rallied to elect a new president, with high hopes that he would usher (If you usher someone somewhere, you show them where they should go, often by going with them) in a new era of government accountability and bring healing to a country fractured by the brutal civil war that ended in 2009. President Maithripala Sirisena has taken bold steps to fulfill those hopes since his election last January.

But the wounds of war cannot be healed until a transitional justice process demanded by the United Nations in a resolution last October moves forward. On that score, Mr. Sirisena says his government will not act “in haste (Haste is the quality of doing something quickly, sometimes too quickly so that you are careless and make mistakes).” This is unacceptable. Atrocities (An atrocity is a very cruel, shocking action) were committed by both Tamil rebel troops and the Sri Lankan Army during the civil war. The perpetrators must be brought to trial.

Mr. Sirisena has amply demonstrated a capacity to lead during the year he has held office. He has presided over promised parliamentary elections, and has moved to dismantle the cronyism (If you accuse someone in authority of cronyism, you mean that they use their power or authority to get jobs for their friends) and the repressive (A repressive government is one that restricts people’s freedom and controls them by using force) regime of his predecessor, Mahinda Rajapaksa. He has also moved to include Sri Lanka’s minority Tamils and Muslims in the country’s governance, to release political prisoners and to allow more freedom of expression. And he has righted the Rajapaksa government’s tilt toward China, taking a balanced approach to Sri Lanka’s foreign relations that includes warmer relations with India and the United States. This month, Mr. Sirisena announced the beginning of a process to draft a new constitution.

These are welcome steps. But they are no substitute for justice. Troubling allegations of torture under Mr. Sirisena’s watch — which his government denies — must be addressed. Military leaders who oversaw the bloody operations that killed as many as 40,000 Tamil civilians in the final months of the war remain in command, and have even been promoted. A dangerous anti-Muslim campaign by Singhalese nationalists is threatening to further fray (The fray is an exciting or challenging activity, situation, or argument that you are involved in) Sri Lanka’s ethnic fabric.

Last fall, the United Nations agreed to allow Sri Lanka to set up its own special court on war crimes. Mr. Sirisena needs to move quickly to fulfill his government’s obligation to the United Nations and its moral duty to Sri Lankans.

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