Would Raviraj's fate transpire to five students in Trincomalee? 11 years sans justice!

Jan 04, 2017

Since the five students in Trincomalee were shot and killed brutally on the 02nd of January 2006 it is 11 years with justice equidistant. It appears not arriving at all!

The five students murdered in this manner in the vicinity and foot of the Gandhi statue were Manoharan Ragihar(1985/09/22)Yogaraj Hemachandra (1985/03/04) Logidaraja Rohan (1985/04/07) Dingathurai Sivanandan(1985/04/06) Shanmugaraj Gajendran (1985/09/16).At that moment all students killed had not completed twenty one years of  age.

.Even if fate is not believed by us as a cruel comic story of the students in their tender ages were brutally killed at the foot of the inoffensive father. But .the culprits who brutally killed the students roam at large within Sri Lanka should not be forgotten.

The constant recline of the police was quite obvious. The police investigations had commenced in their usual inimitable style in the tilt back fashion. The police had lamented that when the students had attempted to hurl hand grenades at them they had exploded killing them instantaneously. In contrary when the post-mortem were conducted it had revealed that they had died of bullet injuries when remnants of bullets were found in them. This is how the sprawl of the police was surfaced.

However it is very scarcely that one comes across very truthful police officers in Sri Lanka police. It is a known fact the majority who makes “Kabaragoyas” “ Talagoyas.” The people who inflict  indigestion are those who guzzle food excessively.

If an illustration is desired during the entire past era it should be reminded to the police chiefs that the suspects who were taken to expose the arms have succumbed when trying to grab arms

The whole country knows the law not appropriate to slain Raviraj. Then the utter is about the law not adequate to verify evidence. It is now 11 years after the murder of the five students. There is no impartiality at any striking distance.The only person to lead evidence was the father of a student killed.But unfortunately through fear the entire family has migrated overseas. That too as the family had to seize evasive scuffle against death threats.

 On the 22nd ultimo on the insistence of the plaintiff in front of a Sinhala speaking Jury the former Member of Parliament of the Jaffna district Nadaraja Raviraj’s case was heard.The case was heard uninterrupted. The verdict was delivered by the Magistrate  just past midnight on the 23rd ultimo after it was decided by the Jury that there were no conclusive evidence against the suspects .Hence all suspects were exonerated against the charges ,freed and released. Among the suspects were three Navy personnel. What the layman should believe that Nadaraja Raviraj had committed suicide?

The slain Nadaraja Raviraj was acclaimed by the Sinhalese community highly as he spoke flowing Sinhala language while representing the Tamil National Alliance. In the canteen inside the Parliament Raviraj had been having meals, speaking in Sinhala with the President, Prime Minister and the colleagues.

If this was the verdict for Raviraj’s killing what could one expect for the suspects in the killing of the five students is quite natural to envisage.

The life in a country sans justice
On this earth there is more anguish than when someone so close vanishes. That is felt only those who facade such situations. When the law deprives justice by been dumb where could such persons set out to? The President Maithripala Sirisena however had lamented that he does not need advice from the international judiciary as he has confidence in our own judiciary. In that sense the layman too have questions to pose. Who are those who killed Raviraj? Who are those who killed the five students in Trincomalee? Where are the punishments to them?

 In a country where insane dogs have been unleashed it is treacherous to live in a society prone to those dogs that would bite at any moment in very uncertain. We should not be fooled by outside camouflage at all times. The insecurity in small and large magnitudes prevails as earlier. Will terminate remembering  Father Martin Niemolar.

“ At  the end he came to my rescue as no one was there to defend on my behalf.”................. !