Terror, Terrorists and Terrorizing are still here 

Sunday 15 July 2012
All democratic organizations vehemently condemned the unlawful killing of political prisoner Nimalaruban, without any trial, at the Vauniya prison.  Everybody in the north as well as in the south understands that he and other prisoners were severely assaulted and beaten with iron rods by the police and others, while they were under the supervision of defence secretary. Post-mortem has become a mockery with the “Communist” Minister of Prisons jumping the verdict. My former comrade has done better than Beria. As highlighted previously on numerous occasions, in this column, Lankan political and military leadership continues to violate the basic human rights of the Tamil people in Lanka with total impunity. This state terror is now spreading in Sinhala areas too. Even after the recent UNHRC resolution and the subsequent assurances given by the Lankan delegations to the global powers, the real ground situation has not changed. Liberal organizations and such leaders claim that unless the international community takes a strong stand and isolates Lanka from international forums, there would not be any change in the human rights situation on the ground. They continuously and vehemently call upon the global powers to immediately condemn this kind of unlawful custodial killings and initiate diplomatic moves to expel Lanka from the Commonwealth. Now they request world powers to take up this unlawful killing at the forthcoming specific Human Rights Review session on Lanka, in Geneva. Unfortunately, Liberalism is impotent to day to go further than formal protest. So called liberal democracy is limited by the whims and fancies of the ruling elites of world powers. Mahinda follows the socio economics of world masters; hence is inevitably shielded by them. UN is incapable of positive action when America, India and others who yield power are to defend the villain. The Protest of the Opposition, Vipaksaye Virodhaya-VV- is the alternative left for those who are willing to do something positive against this villainy of the regime of madness. Terror of the regime of madness can strike you at any moment. It has threatened union leaders, media personnel, political opponents and critical artistes. It was in this background the VV meeting was held at Beruwala on July 6th.

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