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The jurisdiction of the Mullaiteevu Magistrate has become a place of contentious judicial,  legal and political battle ground due to the Kurunthur Malai incident and the excavation of a  mass grave consisting of what appears to be the remains of LTTE carders. The Mullaiteevu  Magistrate’s Office has come under direct threat from Member of Parliament Sarath  Weerasekara who identified the Magistrate as a ‘Tamil’ Judge who is making orders inside a  ‘Sinhala Buddhist’ State. Despite condemning statements by the BASL and Lawyers’ Collective  and protests by Bars across the North and the East the pressure seemed to have continued  on…

Republished From: https://thetricontinental.org/dossier-68-the-coup-against-the-third-world-chile-1973/ In anticipation of the fiftieth anniversary of the 11 September coup against Chile’s Popular Unity government, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research and the Instituto de Ciencias Alejandro Lipschutz Centro de Pensamiento e Investigación Social y Política release a new dossier analysing the coup and its effects on the Third World and non-aligned countries. On 11 September 1973, reactionary sections of the Chilean army, led by General Augusto Pinochet, left the barracks and overthrew the democratically elected government of President Salvador Allende and the Popular Unity coalition. The military and other security forces began an assault on the…