After the broadcast of the Channel 4 video for example, the defence authorities attempted to dismiss it during a hastily convened press conference, which was covered by Western Television stations.

At the press conference it was highlighted by the Sri Lankan Defence authorities that the soldiers in the video clip depicted executing blindfolded naked men had long hair and their uniforms had no military insignia. This was offered by the Defence authorities as evidence to dismiss the allegation that the executors were Sri Lankan soldiers.

Unfortunately these Western TV stations also broadcast archived footage showing President Rajapakse in the company of Sri Lankan soldiers who had long hair and no insignia in their uniforms, destroying the credibility of the Sri Lankan defence authorities, and further compounding on the war crimes allegations.

This week, after raiding the offices of the opposition Presidential candidate Sarath Fonseka, the defence authorities alleged that they had seized several motorbikes, which had no number plates.

The insinuation was that these motorbikes were a part of a greater conspiracy, being or prepared to be used to cause mischief.

But, this writer has on several occasions seen vehicles in the streets of Colombo, used by the defence authorities, which have no number plates.

It was also alleged that similar motorbikes without number plates were used in the execution of Editor Lasantha Wickrematunge.

Below is a photograph taken by this writer, which shows two-armed, naval rating riding a motorbike, which has no fixed number plate. Instead it has a blank plate, on which a number has been scribbled using chalk, which can be easily rubbed off and the motorbike used for illegal activity.

It is an offence to use a vehicle in the streets without proper number plates as set out in law, but the defence authorities seem to conduct themselves above the laws of the land, whether its number plates, crossing white lines, speeding or driving dangerously forcing other citizens off the streets.

The Sri Lankan Police Force enforces the laws of the land selectively. Last month, a military jeep was seen driving towards Kandy near the thirst aid station in Kegalle, driving all over the road, cheerfully crossing double and single white lines as if they were on some kind of a site seeing tour. It was a lone vehicle and its crossed double white lines in the centre of the street right in front of two traffic policemen, who just looked on.

When this writer inquired from the traffic policemen, why they had not stopped the military jeep with armed uniformed officers crossing double white lines, the traffic officers of Kegalle police responded “they must be in a hurry!”

Perhaps we should all drive crossing double white lines because we are all in a hurry and the Supreme court will support a fundamental rights violation, if the traffic police prosecute.