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Thiranjala Weerasinghe sj.- One Island Two Nations
?????????????????????????????????????????????????Wednesday, April 26, 2017
Murder At Jayewardenepura University
If a dog lives its life in a specific area, had been doing so for years,
is properly cared for, neutered when necessary, fed, watered and
sheltered, is at least content if not downright happy, provides
contentment and happiness to its primary caregivers, that dog is not
footloose or set astray. It is a factor, a component, a definite entity
of a larger social order, habitat if you may, where it has its place,
has its role. If that habitat is a small apartment, annexure or home,
then the alpha-dog of that space, in most cases a human will be
responsible for the dog and will look after it and take responsibility
for it. If it is a much larger space such as the premises of J’Pura
University, occupied by a large number of human beings hailing from
various places for various reasons, then alpha-dog is not a person
sitting in some high chair but rather, a collection of those that look
out for that dog. If decisions have to be made about that dog, then it
is those caregivers who should make those decisions not someone far
removed from any idea of such matters as habitats, definition of strays
or ideas of social-anthropology, animal domestication or institutional
culture. Those decisions cannot be made by an unqualified,
intellectually
vacant, socially bereft apology for a human being. Such decisions
cannot be made by people like the Vice Chancellor of J’Pura university.
He has no clue, therefore, he has no say. He cannot understand and will
never understand that the dog population of all of our universities form
an integral part of the portal, has been so for decades and are pets to
a large number of students and teachers and by no means strays.
Yet, this man has taken it upon himself to give strange definitions for
what constitutes strays, vermin and pests. He has decided, contrary to
every definition of canines, that they are pests akin to cockroaches and
termites. Things that need to be crushed underfoot or gassed out.
Therefore, he decides in his maladjusted mind, to hire a terminator, a
pest controller to exterminate the dog population of the J’Pura campus.
Just as much as he doesn’t know how many termites are eating away at his
books, he has no clue how many dogs there are. He only knows that they
need to be sprayed with sarin or worse. There were 83 dogs a month ago.
30 of them have been murdered by a pest controller. If he wanted the dog
population of the university wiped out he didn’t succeed. Instead he
only succeeded in performing illegal, extra-judicial action that brought
out a storm of grief and protest from all parts of the country. The
outpouring of shock and horror was akin to sentiments expressed across
the world at the extermination of human beings in Syria recently. This
madman doesn’t understand that what he caused to be done to the dogs at
J’Pura was no different to what was caused to be done to human beings in
Syria. According to eyewitness reports, the dogs started vomiting,
foaming at the mouth, losing consciousness in the same way, with the
same suffering, over the same period of time as the human beings in
Syria.
The
students fought back, hard, on behalf of their beloved pets and they
did it right. Even as they sobbed their hearts out that a pregnant bitch
they had been caring for had been poisoned to death, they asked the
careless, vicious, heartless, soulless, lawless VC for a meeting. He
ignored them. They went to the police. They wrote to the papers. They
campaigned on social media. They invoked every relevant law, directive
and circular to protect the canines that were still left. Their voice
could not be stilled and it was taken up by the larger populace of this
country full of the followers of the Buddha and Lord Shiva to whom such
action constitutes nothing less than murder.