Dear Uncle Mihin, You know very well that people who believe the white van is a thing of the past is fools. Media has reported that four abductions in four days have taken place in Vavuniya. (July 06, 2008-Sunday Leader)

Just two days after the brutal attack on Namal Perera, a former TNL journalist and Mahendra Ratnaweera an associate member of the Foreign Correspondents Association on July 2, some 800 Tamils living in the Kimbula Ela area in Colombo 15 found themselves unceremoniously forced out of their beds and homes by the area police. Most of them including women and children were not properly dressed and were in their night clothes but they were not accorded the opportunity to change their clothes. Go they were ordered.

According to the Modera Police it was only a cordon and search operation conducted early morning and was regular. This harassment will go far it will be not a surprise that every Tamil convert to a Tiger.

Uncle Mihin’s one time friends JVP uncles set three conditions to call off strike on the 10^th July. There are reducing the number of ministers to 30, implement the 17^th Amendment and postpone provincial polls before July 10. We heard that you direct ministers to stick to one portfolio. Your decision was communicated to several ministers and deputy ministers in writing last week by your Secretary Lalith Weeratunga. This step is good although it creates problems within your cabinet.

Thankyou,

Yours Sinhala Buddhist daughter.

Political parties contesting the North Central Provincial Council Election are concerned about possible violence, particularly in the Tamil areas of the Pollonnaruwa district due to TMVP member ‘Mangalan Master’ being a candidate on the UPFA list.

Opposition members based in Pollonnaruwa complain that several TMVP ‘safe houses’ had been put up in the Welikanda and Dimbulagala divisions of Pollonnaruwa and they were manned by armed cadres.

The main Opposition UNP has also taken up this issue and UNP General Secretary MP Tissa Attanayake urged the government to disarm these members and ensure a free and fair election.

Mr. Attanayake also issued a handout revealing the names of 15 such safe houses in Welikanda and Dimbulagala.

We as citizens of this country knew what was happened in the Eastern Provincial Council election. We urge the Rajapakse government to ensure free and fair election at the forthcoming PC polls in the North Central Province and the Sabaragamuwa Province.