Pardoning Sunil - A response
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Two significant incidents took place on 26 March 2020. Sri Lanka recorded 102 confirmed Covid-19 patients; and President Gotabaya Rajapaksa granted a presidential pardon to Sunil Rathnayake, former Army Staff Sergeant and convicted murderer. The severity of the former perhaps strategically, provides cover to the significant implications of the latter. While regional and global media have been vocal about the pardon, local media is largely silent.
Groundviews reached out to a few key individuals to record their responses to the Presidential pardon and the larger sociopolitical concerns it raises.
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