The Life Of A Sri Lankan Tamil Bishop In Danger

March 30, 2012
By Brian Senewiratne -

Dr. Brian Senewiratne

This is an urgent appeal to prevent the possible assassination/ ‘disappearance’ of the outspoken Roman Catholic Bishop of Mannar, his fellow Catholic priests in the North and East, and others, who call themselves ‘Civil Society’, who are the only voices of the Tamil people in this part ofSri Lanka.

I write, not as a concerned Christian, but as a concerned human being, to apprise the international community, including the Pope, of what might happen in the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, as it likes to call itself.

Anyone who is even minimally aware of what is going on behind the closed and censored door of President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s Totalitarian State, will know, that murder is rampant, and accountability non-existent. Murder or ‘disappearance’ is the Government’s answer to anyproblem, and the only method of silencing the dissenting voice.

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Already more than a dozen Christian priests, mainly Roman Catholics, have been murdered, abducted or have simply gone missing – “disappeared”. In the Sinhalese South, it is the dreaded ‘white van’ with no number plates that arrives. The victim is bundled in and that is that.

The bombing of the Madhu Church in Mannar.
Other human rights activists threatened
The opposition to Bishop Joseph
The political party of the Buddhist monks (JHU)
Sinhalese clergy and civilians