“Both gross abuses of human rights and intolerable corruption do not set in at once. It comes slowly when we tolerate it, ignore it and are ignorant of it. Sometimes, it comes early, not when the atrocious and dishonest people do wicked things but when honest and honourable people keep silent,” said TISL Executive Director J C Weliamuna delivering the annual Kanchana Abeypala memorial lecture on 21 December.
The lecture is held in honour of Mr Abeypala, a distinguished young lawyer who was senselessly assassinated some years back “during one of the darkestperiods of our recent history,” as Mr Weliamuna described.
The lecture was titled ‘Ramifications of Corruption and their impact on Human Rights’ .