Worrying ground situation in Jaffna
Why SL Military have to give permission for me to live in my own house? – Ananda Sankari
Recent activities shows that, Sri Lanka is moving to dictatorship. There is a dangerous situation developing. The first is, wherever the people try to live, the military camps there. It is there on each street corner and it is very difficult to their development and people cant do anything with out military intervention. Further than this, in some areas the military captured lands from civilian people claiming that it was LTTE’s property.
it is military rule in JaffnaProf S. Ratnajeevan H. Hoole
There seems to be no place for Tamils in this united Sri Lanka…
Just look at what is happening in Jaffna today. There is military rule. I was personally present when the army came and broke up an academic meeting on preserving ancient books. Our group is now scared of meeting again.
A cousin of mine, Ambi, was there as a candidate. He begged in Sinhalese and was spared an assault but in his presence another was beaten up and his glasses squashed under a boot.There can be no nation building when we live under the military boot.
Will Pullukkulam be given to the business activities of the majority community ?
Will Pullukkulam in Jaffna town area be given to the business activities of the majority community? Efforts for such grabbing have started.Many places in the North and East in Sri Lanka especially in Jaffna have been taken possession by the majority community.
These places are used for building star hotels and posh restaurants. It is feared that pullukkulam in Jaffna town faces the same fate.
Worrying ground situation in Jaffna
The next day (last) Sunday morning, his blood-drenched body was hanging from a goal post in a playground in Putur, just two kilometres from his home. It bore torture marks. The nails of fingers in both hands had been plucked out, Jaffna Judicial Medical Officer (JMO), Dr. S. Sivaruban, testified at the post-mortem inquiry. He said there were no suicide signs on the body that hung from a nylon cord.
Examining the reasons for the absence of outrage
Absence of investigations into possible murder is as low as it can get, from the point of view of justice. When a population of a country has lost the outrage in face of murder of any of its fellow citizens, that is a manifestation of such a psychological decay as worse as it can get.Today, in the face of thousands of disappearances and other forms of possible murder and other serious harm to other , Sri Lankans remain silent and we also try to shout down others who demand justice.
some timely warnings on militarisation of Sri Lanka
There is a very critical structural shift in policies towards militarization of this country.Unlike in the past we see that the Navy has started a water bottling company.It is taking tourists on whale watching tours in the East. The Air Force is running helicopter services. The Army is selling vegetables. In the same brush that I paint the taking of 18 year old kids into military camps for military training.
Navy accused of land grab in Ampara
Villagers in the eastern Sri Lankan district of Amapara have been protesting against the moves by Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) to acquire their ancestral land in order to establish a new camp. Panama, Kumana, Helawa and Ragamwela residents who have tried to resettle after the war say they were prohibited by the SLN, which the villagers charge of land grabbing.
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Sri Lanka’sserious deficit of the rule of law ..
Given this logical progression of the steady undermining of the Rule of Law through decades, the fact that Presidential autocracy has now reached new heights is nothing to be surprised at. In that regard, the failure of the justice system is a matter not only for the minorities in Sri Lanka but for the majority as well. This is what we should be centrally concerned about. Then we have the phenomenon of the absolute politicization of the Department of the Attorney General.
SLB weekly update 04.July 2011 Issues of Militarisation and Rule of law.pdf
SLB weekly update 04.July 2011 Issues of Militarisation and Rule of law.docm
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