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Hybrid court not feasible in Sri Lanka: PM

Xinhua, March 3, 2017 Adjust font size:

Sri Lanka Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said on Friday that a "hybrid court" is not politically feasible in Sri Lanka.

Addressing a function of lawyers in Colombo, he made these remarks in obvious reference to the call for a judicial mechanism with the participation of international judicial personnel to hear human rights cases during the war period.

"We will have to find a feasible alternative for it. How do we fulfill the expectation of international community? Let's get together and think of a feasible alternative for hybrid Supreme courts," he said.

He said Sri Lanka's court system is older than its political system

"We had courts under the Dutch. The first members of the legislative council were all lawyers. People had faith in the legal system. Sri Lanka's judicial system is one of the oldest in Asia," he said.

He said there is one notion that the country's laws are in compliance with international human rights standards and changes will be made to improve them. Endit