Lal Wijenayake, Who Defied His Own Party to Defend Judicial Independence, Dies at 85
Lal Wijenayake, a Kandy lawyer and six-decade veteran of Sri Lanka’s left who in his final months went to the Supreme Court to oppose a constitutional amendment introduced by his own party, the governing National People’s Power, died on Saturday evening at a private hospital in Kandy. He was 85. At his death, Mr. Wijenayake sat on three of the N.P.P.'s senior bodies: its Leadership Council, its Executive Committee and its National Operations Committee. He came to the coalition, which is built a
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