How JR’s legal eagle Shiva Pasupathy became Prabhakaran’s jinx

By Philip Fernando

(April 02, Los Angeles, Sri Lanka Guardian) Shiva Pasupathy former Sri Lankan Attorney General to President J R Jayewardene has the audacity to write to UN Human Rights High Commissioner Navanetham Pillay about the plight of civilians in the Northern mainland of Sri Lanka. He sheds crocodile tears about the civilians now being used as a human shield by Prabhakaran getting protective custody from the armed forces.

How Pasupathy morphed from being JR’s legal eagle to Prabhakaran’s veritable jinx provides excellent reading in the light his recent letter to Navanetham Pillai published in transCurrents.com.

Pasupathy as AG co-authored JR’s constitution of 1978 and also the infamous Prevention of Terrorism act (PTA) which put hundreds of Tamil civilians in dire straights. Later, he helped draft the sixth amendment to the constitution of Sri Lanka that prevented anyone from advocating separation including Tamil MPs who were debarred from parliament under that amendment.

So what is Pasupathy urging Navanetham Pillay to do now? In his words: ensure that all citizens are allowed to remain wherever they want to stay and that none should be compelled to move to detention camps against their will. What is civilians are running from LTTE harm's way--never mind all that. Enjoying a lucrative pension from the Sri Lankan government, Pasupathy now paints a different story about civilian safety. The civilians that suffered at the hands of Prabhakaran had gone unnoticed as Pasupathy practiced amnesia all these years.

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