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hanging for two Lankan youths in Kuwait
In the first instance of a public hanging of Sri Lankans in Kuwait, the two youths, A.H.M. Ajmeer of Katugastota and A.R. Uvaisdeen of Matale, both aged 28 years, have been sentenced to a public hanging in Naif Palace on Tuesday. A third youth, M.M. Nasoordeen of Bandarawela has been sentenced to life imprisonment over the same crime. The missions may have helped to save their lives if they had acted efficiently, a former Labour Welfare Officer, M.M. Mousoof, who was attached to the Sri Lanka Embassy in Kuwait said. Mr. Mousoof said a person sentenced to a hanging could be saved according to Kuwaiti and Saudi laws if "blood money" was paid and the victim's immediate heirs pardoned the accused. In this instance, the required "blood money" of 25,000 US dollars was collected and the victim's family had agreed to pardon them. However, the necessary documents that were signed in Canada had not reached the final hearing of case number 210/2001 of May 5, 2001 at the Kuwaiti Criminal Courts on June 1, 2004. Only a photocopy of the documents signed by the deceased's heirs had reached court on that day. According to Mr. Mousoof this case could have ended much more humanely if bureaucratic red tape and inefficiency had been less at both the Sri Lankan Embassy in Kuwait and the Sri Lanka Consulate in Canada. As the first public hanging of Sri Lankans in Kuwait, he felt that these two lives could have definitely been saved if the authorities had paid more attention to their plight. |
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