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Thursday, January 28, 2016
Out of the shadows
A monk protests under the prison bus
He’s back. -Thursday, 28 January 2016
After a year in the shadows, Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara, the controversial monk who leads the radical Buddhist group Bodu Bala Sena, is front and centre of the news cycle again. He is storming into courtrooms, insulting Government lawyers and threatening, allegedly in foul language, the woman who has been searching for her missing husband for the better part of six years.
Sandhya Eknaligoda, the wife of disappeared journalist Prageeth Eknaligoda, has pursued a lengthy legal process to find the whereabouts of her husband or learn the facts pertaining to his disappearance. Her Habeas Corpus petition is being investigated by the Homagama Magistrate’s Court. Since the defeat of the Rajapaksa administration one year ago, the Eknaligoda investigation has gathered steam, with police sleuths linking his disappearance to an army camp in Giritale, in the Polonnaruwa District. As evidence continues to surface that links the military to Prageeth Eknaligoda’s disappearance, the army begans to close ranks. Frustrated by the lack of cooperation from the military, CID sleuths complained to the Homagama Magistrate, who threatened to issue notice on the Army Chief Chrishantha De Silva unless his forces cooperated with the investigation into Prageeth’s disappearance.
In a country where the conviction of a soldier who was found guilty of the murder of eight persons including two children as in Mirusuvil Jaffna 16 years ago, is perceived as being high treason and a betrayal of the heroes of war, the implication of the military in the high profile disappearance of a dissenting journalist is causing ripples in the ultra-nationalist fringe. These fringe groups paint Prageeth as a double-dealing LTTE spy, thereby justifying his alleged detention by the military that is currently under investigation.
Sandhya in the crosshairs
Sandhya Eknaligoda, for her crime of persistently believing in her husband’s innocence, convinced his disappearance must be accounted for and justice granted to her family, has found herself in their crosshairs. Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara, the vociferous leader of the BBS, accused of instigating vicious religious riots in Aluthgama in June 2014, is leading the charge.
A monk protests under the prison bus
He’s back. -Thursday, 28 January 2016After a year in the shadows, Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara, the controversial monk who leads the radical Buddhist group Bodu Bala Sena, is front and centre of the news cycle again. He is storming into courtrooms, insulting Government lawyers and threatening, allegedly in foul language, the woman who has been searching for her missing husband for the better part of six years.
Sandhya Eknaligoda, the wife of disappeared journalist Prageeth Eknaligoda, has pursued a lengthy legal process to find the whereabouts of her husband or learn the facts pertaining to his disappearance. Her Habeas Corpus petition is being investigated by the Homagama Magistrate’s Court. Since the defeat of the Rajapaksa administration one year ago, the Eknaligoda investigation has gathered steam, with police sleuths linking his disappearance to an army camp in Giritale, in the Polonnaruwa District. As evidence continues to surface that links the military to Prageeth Eknaligoda’s disappearance, the army begans to close ranks. Frustrated by the lack of cooperation from the military, CID sleuths complained to the Homagama Magistrate, who threatened to issue notice on the Army Chief Chrishantha De Silva unless his forces cooperated with the investigation into Prageeth’s disappearance.
In a country where the conviction of a soldier who was found guilty of the murder of eight persons including two children as in Mirusuvil Jaffna 16 years ago, is perceived as being high treason and a betrayal of the heroes of war, the implication of the military in the high profile disappearance of a dissenting journalist is causing ripples in the ultra-nationalist fringe. These fringe groups paint Prageeth as a double-dealing LTTE spy, thereby justifying his alleged detention by the military that is currently under investigation.
Sandhya in the crosshairs
Sandhya Eknaligoda, for her crime of persistently believing in her husband’s innocence, convinced his disappearance must be accounted for and justice granted to her family, has found herself in their crosshairs. Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara, the vociferous leader of the BBS, accused of instigating vicious religious riots in Aluthgama in June 2014, is leading the charge.
