SriLanka, Sept. 30 -- I have over several weeks been serializing on the Council for Liberal Democracy Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/CLDSL/, the National Human Rights Action Plan drafted when I was Secretary to the Ministry of Disaster Management and Human Rights. I had inherited a committee set up for this purpose when Mahinda Rajapaksa became President, but its chair, Jayampathy Wickremaratne, who hankered after Chandrika, lost faith in Mahinda and had done nothing for some time.

But Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe's general factotum Nishan Muthukrishna, who was deeply committed to Human Rights, convinced me to convince Jayampathy to resume work, and to help him we set up several committees to look into different areas. Several ...