MaRa regime nonplussed –Its treasure hunt turns into child abductions
Monday 14 of May 2012

Three attempted child abductions within a day by white Van

(Lanka-e-News-14.May.2012, 5.30PM) Even as Ven. Medhananda Thero was announcing that digging for ancient treasure is the same as digging for oil or any other natural resources , and it is best the Govt . digs those treasures ahead before the rogues take them., it has come to light that the white Van had attempted to abduct three male children on the 13th in one day in the north and east of the country to offer as sacrifice for this illicit treasure digging operations. Fortunately for the country and unfortunately for Medhananda Thero who is defending the Govt.’s dastardly activities and exposing his tattoo and thug qualities , the people had been able to capture one group of these criminals of one of the three white vans. When the inmates of the white van had tried to abduct a child on Sachiar road, Valaichenai police district, in the north, they had been captured by he people and handed over to the Valaichenai police. The spokesman of the Valachenai police answering queries of LeN said, four suspects have been arrested , and of them two are Sinhalese from Chilaw district and the other two are Tamils from Kalkudah while the Van is from Chilaw district. Eye witnesses speaking to Lanka e news said, at the time the van was caught , there were within the van , another two children who had been abducted – a boy and a young girl. Meanwhile on the 13th early morning , when this same group had tried to abduct a seven year old child at Kalkudah , the victim had fled and escaped. Later at Valaichenai district , this abduction had taken place. The police suspect that these abductions are to offer the victims as sacrifices , said the suspects had stated they were abducting them for jobs. When they had been questioned why under aged children had been earmarked for jobs , they have not given an answer. In Kokuvil , Jaffna district , there had been three incidents reported of attempted abduction of children on the 13th alone. When the white Van had tried to abduct a 11 year old student who had been in front of the School in the morning , the child had fled and escaped. It had not been possible to catch the white Van.Although these incidents had been reported to security divisions , they had not been able to capture the white van. It is indeed strange that these security lapses are witnessed in Jaffna where the security beef up is immense. May we recall that , on earlier occasions, a Captain of the President’s security division , Leslie Abeyratne and his group were caught red handed when digging for treasure at Rangala , while at Maha Vilachchi , residents of the area captured the STF group engaged in illicit treasure hunting . Intriguingly , until date no one had been prosecuted . In the circumstances , it is best if Ven. Medhananda Thero acts with circumspection and talks with a little more sense in keeping with the Buddhist tenets he is expected to follow with greater zeal than an ordinary layman – soul peddling is worse than body peddling.