Legislation to ‘monitor NGOs’ to be introduced

by admin
Oct 18, 2012
The Sri Lankan government has planned to introduce new laws that will monitor non-governmental organisations in the country, reported ColomboPage.

The Director General of the Media Center for National Security (MCNS) Lakshman Hulugalla was quoted as saying that existing legislation was not adequate enough to monitor these organisations and NGOs were also guilty of supporting “terrorists”.

It is unclear what the new legislation will enable, but ColomboPage stated that it would,
“enable the government to probe their activities and take appropriate action against them wherever it is necessary.”
See Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s comments on NGOs below.

SL President - 'NGOs destroying our country' (15 October 2012)

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