Bandura Dileepa Witharana is a Senior Lecturer in Mathematics and Philosophy of Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering Technology, Open University of Sri Lanka. He is the author of Negotiating Power and Constructing the Nation: Engineering in Sri Lanka, focusing on the intersections of engineering, power, and nation-building.
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I have no doubt that the girl was sexually abused. That conclusion does not come from courtroom technicalities; it comes from common sense. It comes from lived experience in this society, from
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