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Government must explain as to whether the security forces were asleep - Karu
Wednesday, 03 April
2013
Once
again the right of the people in the North to hold dissenting opinion has been
threatened. The latest example is the attack on the office of the Udayan
newspaper by goons.
According
to the government democratic rights have been established not only in the North
but across the country. There cannot be room for any kind of harassment in the
North. The attack on the Udayan office has taken place under this
background.
The
problem is if there is security as stated by the government, who permitted and
created the environment for these goons to behave as they wish and to reach
their victim without any hindrance and flee from the sight unharmed. The
government must explain as to whether the security forces were asleep; whether
they are subjected to any political influence preventing them from carrying out
their entrusted duties. How did the goons become so powerful to go above the
forces?
Because
in January a similar attack was carried out on Udayan newspaper, unidentified
goons assaulted a distributor of Udayan newspaper and damaged his motor bicycle,
fled unharmed after burning the newspapers. Although almost 3 months have
elapsed after the incident, those who are responsible are still at
large.
We
firmly believe that whether we agree or disagree with the other person’s opinion
we have to respect his/her right to hold a dissenting view. It is an inborn
quality of those who believe in democracy. When we shoot down the messenger it
will leave room for gossip mongering. Also it will bring harmful results. We
wish to emphasize that those who are in power should realize this
truth.
Deshabandu
Karu Jayasuriya M.P.
Gampaha
District
British Spies Organised Execution Of Patrice
Lumumba
April 2, 2013
British spies admitted
helping to organise the detention and execution of the first prime minister of
the Democratic Republic of Congo in the 1960s, a peer has claimed, the Telegraph
reports.
Baroness
(Daphne) Park of Monmouth, who was the senior MI6 officer in the African country
at the time, said she had “organised it”, according to the Labour peer Lord Lea.
Independence leader Patrice Lumumba was arrested, tortured and executed just
months after becoming the first democratically elected prime minister of the DRC
in 1960.
Read
more in the
Telegraph