{"id":120915,"date":"2021-12-05T18:34:47","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T01:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=120915"},"modified":"2021-12-05T18:34:47","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T01:34:47","slug":"the-peoples-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-th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/12\/05\/the-peoples-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-th\/","title":{"rendered":"The people\u2019s 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…!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aruna Laksiri Unawatuna (Attorney-at-Law)<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

The people\u2019s voice against the killing of George Floyd clearly shows that\nthe Blacks in United States are a great deal ahead in seeking the justice in\ndemanding the right to equality before the law…! *
\n[Aruna Laksiri Unawatuna (Attorney-at-Law)]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ruling power of the British Crown in the United States was brought to an\nend when the Declaration of Independence was pronounced in 1776 with the\nAmerican Revolutionary War (1775-1783). It was recognized as a free state by\nthe Treaty of Paris in 1783.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The racial laws for the weak and the powerful which were separately\nintroduced by the British for the countries that they governed; South Africa,\nIndia, Sri Lanka and also United States including other countries as colonies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unlike the other British colonial countries, the United States was the only\nnation in the world to disarm the British with an armed revolution but there\nwas a huge tragedy in its society because of the strong establishment of laws\nfor confirming racial discrimination and oppressing the oppressed which were\nintroduced by the British.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a result, great personalities such as President Abraham Lincoln (1865)\nand Nobel laureate Martin Luther King, Jr. (1968) sacrificed their lives to the\nbullet, and the persistence of such assassinations expose the dark areas of the\nrule of law in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another such brutal murder which was committed by police officers in\nMinneapolis, Minnesota, USA by torturing a black man named George Floyd (46) to\nhis death on May 25, 2020, has achieved to create a stir in public opinion in\nall countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although there have been many horrific murders all around the world, the\nmurder of the black man named George Floyd by depriving him of air for nearly 9\nminutes, even after he begged for a breath reminds us especially of the\nmassacre of Jews by the Nazis using the gas chambers preventing them from\nbreathing during the 2nd World War, and it was clearly a cruel act against\nhumanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although there are many protests in the United States of America and other\ncountries around the world for equality disregarding the white-black\ndiscrimination while implementing legal actions regarding this cruel murder\nwhich was done by preventing breathing, the nature of the protests of the\nBlacks of the United States against the brutal murder of George Floyd proves us\nthat they are far more ahead than the people of other countries which had been\ncolonized by the British in demanding the right to equality before the law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unlike the people of former British colonies such as Indians and Sri\nLankans, Blacks in the United States are well-versed in English, so they have\nthe legal literacy to read the laws of the United States and the judgements of\nits Supreme Court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Therefore, without the operation of anyone else the Blacks in the United\nStates have the legal literacy to independently utilize the knowledge gained\nthrough it and obtain a successful procedure against the legal discriminations\ntaken against them.Because of that strong legal power, Blacks in the United States\nwill have the opportunity to seek justice for George Floyd’s murder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unlike the Blacks in the United States, the Sinhalese who are the majority\nof the Sri Lankans are a community who are neither free nor able to access\nlegal literacy. All necessary and important legal matters in Sri Lanka are\nhandled and decisions are made in English language which is used only by a\nminority and not in Sinhala, the language of the majority. As a result, the\nlegal literacy of the Sinhala majority in Sri Lanka is very low and they do not\nhave the knowledge to act legally against the actions that the powerful people\ntake against them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Sinhalese in Sri Lanka do not know how to obtain freedom through legal\nactivities, unlike the Blacks in the United States can obtain freedom through\nlegal activities. While being ignorant of the law is not an excuse (Ignorantia\njuris non excusat), the Sinhalese are not allowed to know the law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the People\u2019s Voice against George Floyd’s cruel murder testifies\nthat Blacks in the United States are far ahead in demanding equality before the\nlaw, it cannot be said how much more time it will take for the majority of\nSinhalese in Sri Lanka to demand equality before the law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* This is an English translation of an article written on June 7,\n2020 about the strangulation of a black man named George Floyd in\nMinnesota, USA, and the facts contained in that article are important to\nresolve the recent murder of a Sri Lankan in Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aruna Laksiri Unawatuna (Attorney-at-Law) The people\u2019s 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)] The ruling power of the British Crown in the United States […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-judiciary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}