The US Department of Justice has worked with new prosecutors from Sri Lanka’s Attorney General’s Department to build trial skills.
These included skills “Like delivering powerful opening & closing arguments & examining witnesses on the stand,” the American Embassy in Colombo said.
These prosecutors will soon take on smugglers of narcotics, humans, and other illicit goods, the embassy said.
“Holding transnational criminals accountable strengthens justice, security, & the rule of law for both Sri Lanka & the United States.”
Sri Lanka’s present government rode to power promising to ‘catch thieves’.