Archive for March, 2008




Reply to Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka

 Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations speaking at the Seventh Session of the Human Rights Council said that the Council must not give up the responsibility to examine human rights in a holistic manner.

Jayatilleka, addressing the Sessions prior to the adoption of several resolutions pertaining to human rights issues pointed out that what was required was “an office which will be a lighthouse of human rights, a lighthouse whose beam plays across the horizon back and forth. We do not need an Office which is opaque or indecipherable, standing above us like Kafka’s castle.”

Mr.Jayathileka your words like holistic and your literary examples like Kafka’s castle were very nice. Why don’t you tell these nice ideas to your leader Mr. Rajapakse. Why don’t you ask your leader to stop state violence. I mean torture, Extra Judicial Killings, Unidentified Gunmen and others.

We are in the end of  March and preparing for the new year. In this month media has reported three extra judicial killings. Two were from Kalutara South police and Bandarawela police. The other one reported from Welikada prison.

You wanted only to win International community not gain peace and justice for the marginalised people in this country.

2 comments March 29, 2008

INJUSTIFIABLE NUWARAELIYA MAYOR

I went to Nuwara Eliya on the 20th March. The beauty of Nuwara Eliya impressed me a lot. I felt that the duties of the town cuncil goes smoothly. The town is very clean and properly arranged. I was happy because there was no rain and not of too much cold. The blue trees are decorated with beautiful flowers.
At the evenning I met a Human Rights activist and she introduced me two women saying they have a problem and they need some advice. So I listened to them. The one woman who seems to be more strong introduced the other woman said she was her relative and faced the injustice and now helpless. The victimise woman looks more innocent and fragile.
I asked them kindly what was happened? The relative of the victimised woman spoke out. The tragic incident was took place on the 7th March 2006. The victim’s husband and daughter came to the Nuwara Eliya town to buy some goods. Her husband Akmon Silva and daughter Priyanthi Lakmali Silva were killed when an old tree at Mayour’s office compound fell down. At that time they were lived at No15, Shanthi Pura. So Ms.R.M.Nandawathi lost her husband and only child.
The tree was very old and the people of the area informed the mayour several occassions about the danger and asked to cut it down. He also promised to do it but these promises only limited to mere words.
After the tragic incident Nandawathi asked some help from the Mayor. He promised and gave her Rs5000/-.It was not enough for the lost she has faced she begs for more. The Mayour and his staff gave her an envelop and said it contains Rs20000/-. The poor victim happily taken the envelop and came home. She opened it. Unfortunately there were only Rs 6200/-. After that the mayor made several promises and took time.
On the 7th March 2008 the two year time period for the incident was over. So poor Nandawathi coudn’t seek the redress from the law. She is now unable to file a lawsuit for compensation at the District court. I described this to them and they said they didn’t know about such law. (Anne miss api oyagena denagena hitiye nehe)
I remember the famous legal proverb “there will be no excuse if someone doesn’t know the law.”(Netiya nodena sitima samawata karunak nove) Now the victim lives in a small shanty without a way for livelihood. The Mayor of Nuwara Eliya  who responsible for the two deaths happily held in his post. On my way home I thought about the hidden injustice in the beauty and proper arranged and most expensive town in the country.

Add comment March 22, 2008

“Ministers turn Criminals”

Media has reported on the 6th March a female employee of the Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation was slashed on her back with a razor blade by an unidentified man in Peliyagoda while travelling in a bus after work last evening -just weeks after Minister Mervyn Silva stormed the SLRC premises.

2 comments March 6, 2008

“Doctors become Perpetrators”

Media has reported a glove has been found inside the womb of a young mother from Kuliyapetiya who has delivered his first child on February 28. After delivery she had complained stomach pain and on admission to Kuliyapitiya Base hospital yesterday doctors have found a glove inside her womb.

Media has reported on March 5,2008 that “I don’t want to press charges I don’t want compensation I will give Rs One lakh of my own money to the Ragama hospital for them to develop their ICU so that no other child will have to lose their life like my little girl did,” were the emotional words of V. Manoharan father of six year old Manoharan Madlina who died after being bitten by a Russels Viper on Sunday.

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