A Brief Colonial History Of Ceylon(SriLanka)
Sri Lanka: One Island Two Nations
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Sri Lanka: One Island Two Nations
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Thiranjala Weerasinghe sj.- One Island Two Nations
?????????????????????????????????????????????????Saturday, July 29, 2017
‘We’ve been crying for 9 yrs.; at least now tell us about our children!’
In
a situation in which justice is yet to be served with regard to
abductions and enforced disappearances, much effort is to be made to
obtain justice. War heroes who are behind patriotism and the war victory
are covering up those abductions and disappearances. Instead of serving
justice, human bonds are repressed. Now, rulers are faced with a
situation in which they cannot disregard those rights of the community
against it. They have to answer as to what has, and is, happening.
She is Saroja Naganathan, the mother of 17-year-old Rajiv, who was among
the five youths who were abducted on 17 September 2008, just a day
before he was due to leave for medical education abroad. Educated at
Colombo International School, he was the only child in the family. In a
land where pride of a 2,500 year history is being talked about, parents
undergo untold suffering for their lost children, and their tears will
not dry up. Tomorrow, you or I will inherit those same tears. When one
is happy, another suffers untold suffering due to no wrong he/she
committed.
Now, it is confirmed that the Navy had abducted Rajiv and his friends.
Until 2011, Rajiv managed to telephone his parents and tell them of his
whereabouts and the abductors. Therefore, it could not remain mystery,
but justice is yet to be served.
“My son told me that he would remain with me the entire day, as he was
to leave the next day. They were eating and drinking when someone called
and asked Dilan to come. They left in our car. They haven’t returned
until today. Children who did no one any harm were seized from us.”
They went everywhere and sought everybody possible in search of their
children, but everybody evaded them. These parents vouch that there was
no political motive behind their abductions, and ransom was the only
intention. Rs. 10 million was demanded to free Rajiv. Former Navy
spokesman Commodore D.K.P. Dassanayake is under arrest over suspicion
that he was involved. The boys had been kept at the Navy camps at
Chaitya Road, Colombo, Welisara and in Trincomalee. Former Navy
commander Wasantha Karannagoda briefed the parents about the incident.
But, no good came. In a society that claims to respect human rights and
democracy, such insecurity should not exist. When will they be served
justice?
The loss of their loved ones has tired them more than enough. They still
hope that their children will return. Everybody should understand the
pain in them.
Ashika Brahmana/Nishantha Priyadarshana