A youth said to be a member of an underworld gang died this morning of police shooting at Maligawatta in Colombo. The police say the youth, who was arrested yesterday, was shot when he tried to attack the police with a hand grenade when taken to Peliyagoda to show a stock of hidden arms.

Daily Mirror has reported the Sigiriya Museum has been named the most attractive in South Asia by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA, Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama said today.

We are happy about the news item but there are other concern matters regarding our heritage. There is a very pathetic situation at Dehiwala zoo according to media. People fro JHU have allowed to build hotels at Sinharaja forest. The latest tragedy is diywadana nilame and elephants at Pinnawala. So we want to protect these things too.

Media (Daily Mirror 27th July 2009) has reported that there were 61000 applications asking recorrection at the A/L exam last year(Revealed at a JVP news conference).

 Students education the best investment of their parents is in danger. Today using mobile phones at schools prohibited by the government. But what about their studies. Their examinations? To whom that we as a society will tell this injustice and negiligence?

Lanka Truth has reported the term test for students in schools of the zonal education office at Anuradhapura will not be held today as schools had not received question papers due to be given today.

Everything in this country is in a mess. Not only human beings I mean media personel, some lawyers, opposition politicians, IDPs but the environment  including Sinharaja forest, Dehiwela zoo and innocent animals. Only the voice of multitude will stop this. We can’t  hope that the voice of the elite class will rise.

 Lanka Truth has reported two tusked elephant cubs which were not even three years old have been taken away by force from the Elephant Orphanage at Pinnawela with the mediation of Diyawadana Nilame of the Temple of the Tooth in Kandy Nilanga Dela Bandara.  About 50 personnel of the STF and Army had gone to the orphanage on Saturday at about 7.00 p.m.,  forced the officials of the orphanage to anaesthetize the mother elephant and the two cubs and taken away the cubs. …

What is the reason behind this death? Who responsible? There is no doubt that the torture  widespreads in schools. Few weeks ago a father of five children committed suicide because his son didn’t access to a school as a result of the torture in his former school. Sometimes this student was suicide because of the fear that she will be assaulted by the principal.

Lanka Truth has reported Kavandya Jayawardene, the student who tried to commit suicide using the school tie to hang herself at the school has died. She tried to commit suicide after she was caught using a mobile phone in the school. She was a resident of Malabe and was a student of grade nine.

On 11.07.2006 around 1am to 1.20am early in the morning my wife, my children, and I were sleeping at our house. I was wake up heard the dog bark. I saw a light of a torch. I opened the window and looked. I saw policemen. I identified the police officer called Lasantha who was in uniforms and holding a rifle. He told me to open the door. I did. The police officer Samaranayake holding my neck and said to put a shirt. I asked him why. My wife asked them why I was taken and also said she can’t stay in home alone and also said she came with me. Then the police officer Samaranayake threatened my wife saying come early in the morning. I wore a shirt and came outside. They had taken me few steps. Two were in uniforms. The police officer Samaranayake was in civil clothes. While the person who sells king coconut also with them.

 In the garden when we were walking few steps the police officer assaulted me on my mouth. My lips were bleeding. I suffered. After that they assaulted me with a geneseriya pole on my back. I told them not to assault me. I felt sad because this type of thing was happening to me.

 They took me to the main road and put me into the jeep. They accompanied me to the bank and the corporative shop to sign their petrol books. They took me around the village and came to the Waduraba police station.

 At that time the police officer Samaranayake was drunk. He told me to remove my shirt. I did. The driver of the jeep holds my hand and held them up. He hand cuffed me. He made me stood in front of the cell and put one hand cuff on to the bars of the cell. I felt sad and fear. The policeman Samaranayake again assaulted my back with the geneseria pole. He hit me until the pole was broken. Then he took the broken part of the pole and again hit on my head. My head was injured. It was bleeding. I shouted saying don’t hit me. My sarong was untied and fell to the ground. I was naked. I felt very sad.

 Then he collected the broken parts of the pole and went to a room. He brought a bottle of arrack and poured into a glass and drank. After that he started smoking. Then he went to a room and brought a iron bar and put it closer to a box contains fire arms. Then they took my sarong and tide around my mouth. Again he had taken the iron bar and assaulted on my buttocks. The also hit my belly. I was unconscious.

 When I gain consciousness my face was directed to the toilet pit. I shouted asking water. The policeman called Lasantha throw a bottle of water to where I was. I reached to it with difficult and drank. They covered my naked body with the sarong. After drinking water I had started vomiting. I screamed and begged them to taken me to the hospital. I felt that I was going to die. I couldn’t bear the pain. I was unconscious again.

 After that the police officer Nimal Ranjith came inside the cell. I told him that I was not well and asked him to take me to a hospital. After that Nimal Rajithcame with the policeman Samaranayake and another person. At that time the police man Samaranayake came with wearing a sarong. The carried me near to water tap and bath me. There was furniture like bed near it. They put me on it and helped me to wear the sarong. I shouted asking water. Then Nimal Ranjith gave me a king coconut and I drank it.

They took me with the furniture to the back side of the police station. There was a jeep parked. They put a tire inside the jeep and put me on it. I was extremely frightened. After that policeman Samaranayake with four others got into the jeep. Samaranayake was in the front seat while the other two were in the back seats. I heard that the policeman Samaranayake told the driver not to go on the main road but another road.

 After that I was taken to the Karapitiya hospital. The jeeped parked closer to a big tree near the mortuary. I was again unconscious. I was put on a wheel chair and taken inside. I got conscious when my leg touched the floor. When I was taking like that way the police man Nimal Ranjith told me to tell that the people in the village assaulted me. He also told me to buy medicine and promised to give Rs.5000.

 They had taken me to a lady doctor. Nimal Ranjith told her that I was assaulted by the people in the village. I said no and mentioned her that I was assaulted by the police. I was admitted to the ward number 9.There was no bed so I was put on to the floor. I asked water again. The police man who was near me kicked me using his feet. I was unconscious again. When I got to the normalcy I was laying on a bed. At time the urine tubes put and the saline was giving. There were policemen near me. My memory was not clear. My wife came to see me. I told her that the policeman Samaranayake assaulted me.

 I was changed from ward number 9 to ward number 34. There was a tube connected to my kidneys. I didn’t have a clear memory. There were also people from prison to my safety. My hands were still handcuffed. I came to know that the police put fabrication of charges against me saying that I went to the king coconut seller’s house carrying a gun and threatened him.

 When the policeman Samaranayake was assaulting me he asked whether I catch the killers. Then he told me that they will do the same thing for me like Sunil. Sunil was my brother in law and was killed few months ago.

 When I was getting treatment at the hospital I was afraid that I was going to die. They gave me saline. I was there for 18 days. After the discharged from the hospital I came to know that the doctors told my father during the hospitalization that there was nothing to fear but earlier they were not sure about my life.

 My wife and parents often visited me at the hospital. They worked hard to save my life. My wife has taken the legal action against the perpetrators.

 The farther of the church came to see me and helped me a lot. With the assistance of Janasansadaya I filled a fundamental rights case before the Supreme Court saying my fundamental rights were violated by the police. The SC judgment was given last year. The Supreme Court said the police officer violated my rights and also given me compensation.

 After this incident I have faced interference. The police have remanded me for several occasions.

Very recently Nilomore theory has applied to First Tiran, Next Mangala and Now Ranga Bandara……Future…….

Daily Mirror has reported the CID is to record a statement from UNP MP Palitha Ranga Bandara on Monday. The MP has been requested to be present before the CID by 12.30pm on this day.

Corruption and bribe before the election victory. We can imagine what will happen after the election. Will these information about corruption receive by the ordinary folk ? Unfortunately these things will not publish in Sinhala media.

Lanka Truth has published that information is received that ‘Booker Tate’ company is spending liberally for the election campaign of two candidates contesting the Uva PC election from Monaragala District.