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WHILE RANIL AND KARU HAIL THEIR “PEACE WITH LTTE” TAMIL TIGERS CHOOSE THE DAY TO APPRECIATE THEIR SEPARATIST “JUDICIARY’ By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles  While the leader of the United National Party Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and his deputy Karu Jayasuriya hailed what the they called a victory of peace with the LTTE by an orchestrated political rally in Colombo, September 9, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam selected the day to appreciate their separatist “judiciary system” they were conducting independent of the government of Sri Lanka.        BBC correspondent in Colombo, Frances Harrison said in a report “supporters were brought into the capital city by state run bus company , which cancelled many of its normal routes and some pro-government unions required their members to attend.”        But the orchestrated “Peace rally” which the BBC correspondent said “with large numbers of Tamil plantation workers taking part” was hailed by Deputy UNP leader Karu Jayasuriya as a “turnout “ which, “showed that there was thirst for peace and unity in the South of the country.” Prime Minister Rail Wickremesinghe said it was traitorous act against the people to speak for racist politics.  Karu Jayasuriya Had to Transport Plantation Tamils to Show Popularity of Peace Plan Deputy UNP leader Karu Jayasuriya organized a rally named Jana Bala Meheyuma to show the popularity of the government’s peace plan with the LTTE among the Sinhalese people but had to transport thousands of Indian Tamil plantation workers by state owned buses to show the government’s strength. BBC correspondent Frances Harrison said , “The supporters were brought into the capital by the state run bus company , which cancelled many of its normal routes and some pro-government unions required their members to attend. A troubled Prime Minister was seen discussing matters with a equally worried faced Karu Jayasuriya in this photo taken at the rally. Meanwhile on the same day the LTTE announced through their favorite radio program, the BBC’s Sandeshaya that a separatist judiciary independent of Sri Lanka in their Tamil Eelam were hearing 3000 civil cases and given death penalty to four Sri Lankan citizens. Two of the killings were conducted in public they said. Public killing of convicts are conducted only under Prabhakaran’s rule and in some Arab countries only. (Text by Walter Jayawardhana) But far from talking peace the man in charge of a separatist judiciary installed in the North announced plans for further development of an independent judiciary free of the government of Sri Lanka.      In a separate news item announced over the Sinhala service of the BBC, the Sandeshaya the man who is in charge of what is called “Thamil Eelam Judiciary and Administration” Elayathamby Pararajasekeram alias “Para” said there were plans to develop the Eelam Judiciary further. He said the LTTE installed civil courts have so far heard 21, 000 cases and the verdicts of 18,000 cases had been concluded . According to him 3000 cases are pending in the LTTE courts.       The Eelam criminal courts had according to him had carried out four executions on the convicted. Two of those executions had been done in public so the others could watch the killings the announcement said. Three out of four capital punishments had been given for sexual offenses and only one had been given for a conviction of a murder he said.       According to the news item the LTTE is conducting a Supreme Court, an appeals court , four district courts and four magistrate courts in areas under their control..       The announcement said sexual offenders could get from 7 years imprisonment to a maximum punishment of death penalty.       In the future death penalty could be replaced with life imprisonment, the Chief of the judiciary said. But he did not reveal whether the right to be represented by a lawyer was allowed under the Fascist government of the LTTE. Though the news item said that justice was administered under Eelam law it did not also say whether such laws were encoded in books.       It was not certain why the LTTE chose day to appreciate the Eelam Judiciary run in defiance of the Sri lanka government on Ranil Wickremesinghe’s peace rally in Colombo.    (EOM)          (02/09/10 go2lanka.com)

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