The people’s voice against the killing of George Floyd clearly shows that the Blacks in United States are a great deal ahead in seeking the justice in demanding the right to equality before the law...! *
The people’s voice against the killing of George Floyd clearly shows that the Blacks in United States are a great deal ahead in seeking the justice in demanding the right to equality before the law...! * [Aruna Laksiri Unawatuna (Attorney-at-Law)]
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The ruling power of the
British Crown in the United States was brought to an end when the Declaration
of Independence was pronounced in 1776 with the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783).
It was recognized as a free state by the Treaty of Paris in 1783.
The racial laws for the weak
and the powerful which were separately introduced by the British for the
countries that they governed; South Africa, India, Sri Lanka and also United
States including other countries as colonies.
Unlike the other British
colonial countries, the United States was the only nation in the world to
disarm the British with an armed revolution but there was a huge tragedy in its society because of the strong
establishment of laws for confirming racial discrimination and oppressing the
oppressed which were introduced by the British.
As a result, great
personalities such as President Abraham Lincoln (1865) and Nobel laureate
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1968) sacrificed their lives to the bullet, and the
persistence of such assassinations expose the dark areas of the rule of law in
the United States.
Another such brutal murder
which was committed by police officers in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA by
torturing a black man named George Floyd (46) to his death on May 25, 2020, has
achieved to create a stir in public opinion in all countries.
Although there have been
many horrific murders all around the world, the murder of the black man named
George Floyd by depriving him of air for nearly 9 minutes, even after he begged
for a breath reminds us especially of the massacre of Jews by the Nazis using
the gas chambers preventing them from breathing during the 2nd World
War, and it was clearly a cruel act against humanity.
Although there are many
protests in the United States of America and other countries around the world
for equality disregarding the white-black discrimination while implementing
legal actions regarding this cruel murder which was done by preventing
breathing, the nature of the protests of the Blacks of the United States
against the brutal murder of George Floyd proves us that they are far more
ahead than the people of other countries which had been colonized by the
British in demanding the right to equality before the law.
Unlike the people of former
British colonies such as Indians and Sri Lankans, Blacks in the United States
are well-versed in English, so they have the legal literacy to read the laws of
the United States and the
judgements of its Supreme Court.
Therefore, without the
operation of anyone else the Blacks in the United States have the legal literacy
to independently utilize the knowledge gained through it and obtain a
successful procedure against the legal discriminations taken against them.Because
of that strong legal power, Blacks in the United States will have the
opportunity to seek justice for George Floyd's murder.
Unlike the Blacks in the
United States, the Sinhalese who are the majority of the Sri Lankans are a
community who are neither free nor able to access legal literacy. All necessary
and important legal matters in Sri Lanka are handled and decisions are made in
English language which is used only by a minority and not in Sinhala, the
language of the majority. As a result, the legal literacy of the Sinhala
majority in Sri Lanka is very low and they do not have the knowledge to act
legally against the actions that the powerful people take against them.
The Sinhalese in Sri Lanka
do not know how to obtain freedom through legal activities, unlike the Blacks
in the United States can obtain freedom through legal activities. While being ignorant of the law
is not an excuse (Ignorantia juris non excusat), the Sinhalese are not allowed
to know the law.
Although the People’s Voice
against George Floyd's cruel murder testifies that Blacks in the United States
are far ahead in demanding equality before the law, it cannot be said how much
more time it will take for the majority of Sinhalese in Sri Lanka to demand
equality before the law.
[* This is an English translation of writer’s article of 'නීතිය ඉදිරියේ සමානත්මතාවය
අයදීමේදී එක්සත් ජනපදයේ කලු ජාතිකයන් බොහෝ ඉදිරියෙන් බව ජෝර්ජ් ෆ්ලොයිඩ් කෲර ඝාතනයට
එරෙහි ජනතා හඩ සාක්ෂි දරයි...! ' Dated
04.05.2020] *
මුල් ලිපිය සදහා සබැදි....
මුල් ලිපිය සදහා සබැදි....
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Aruna Laksiri Unawatuna (Attorney-at-Law)
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