UNP office in Buttala attacked - CaFFE

Tuesday, 02 September 2014 

The election office of opposition leader of Buttala pradesheeya sabha and United National Party (UNP) Moneragala district provincial council candidate Wijesinghe Herath Mudiyanselage Dharmasena has been attacked in the early hours of today (September 2.) With this incident the number of attacked election offices of the opposition parties have reached 55. Although there are over 200 legal and illegal election offices of United Peoples Freedom Alliance (UPFA) in Moneragala, it is only the offices of UNP and Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) that have been attacked.

Not a single person has been arrested in connection with the continuous election violence and violations in Moneragala and it is suspicious that not a single policemen is in the vicinity when these attacks are carried out. Opposition activists claim that gunmen travelling in unmarked vehicles and those with garage numbers carry out these nocturnal attacks with impunity.

Attached herewith is a photo of a Defender Jeep with a garage number plate parked in Kataragama on September 1 around 5.10 pm.

Meanwhile an election office of UNP chief ministerial candidate Harin Fernando at Nelumgama Badulla was attacked on the same day.

Out of the 164 complaints 120 have been received from Moneragala district while 35 are from Badulla. Nine are common to both districts.

(Attached photos - Defender Jeep with a garage number plate parked in Kataragama, destroyed offices of Dharmasena and Fernando.)