{"id":15480,"date":"2013-01-28T13:08:59","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T18:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=15480"},"modified":"2013-01-28T13:10:30","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T18:10:30","slug":"executive-judiciary-tussle-in-sri-lanka-is-more-structural-than-a-personal-issue-between-mahinda-rajapaksa-and-shirani-bandaranayake-says-dayan-jayatilleka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=15480","title":{"rendered":"Executive-Judiciary Tussle in Sri Lanka is more Structural Than a Personal issue Between Mahinda Rajapaksa and Shirani Bandaranayake says Dayan Jayatilleka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Rosslyn Hyams<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>T<\/strong>he International Commission of Jurists and a group of senior judges and legal officials from Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America have called on Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse, to reinstate the country&#8217;s Chief Justice, Shirani Bandaranayake, sacked and replaced Bandaranayake after the parliament impeached her.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nDayan Jayatilleka, a Sri Lankan political scientist and former Ambassador to France, talks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.english.rfi.fr\/asia-pacific\/20130125-jurists-call-sri-lanka-CJ-reinstatement \">Rosslyn Hyams of Radio France International&#8217;s English Service<\/a>  about the stand-off between the executive and the judiciary:<\/p>\n<link href=\"http:\/\/www.english.rfi.fr\/sites\/all\/themes\/aef_theme\/aef_theme.css\" media=\"all\" rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text\/css\" \/>\n<link href=\"http:\/\/www.english.rfi.fr\/sites\/english.rfi.fr\/modules\/maison\/rfi_ct_sound\/rfi_ct_sound.css\" media=\"all\" rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text\/css\" \/>\n<div class=\"rfi-ct-sound-teaser rfi-ct-sound-teaser-medium rfi-ct-sound-embed\">\n<div class=\"infos\">\n<div class=\"title\">\n      A29 INV INTL &#8211; 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