Welikade prison tensed up again : prisoners climb to roofs-murderous STF and forces with iron rods summoned
(Lanka-e-News-12.March.2013, 2.30PM) A tense situation prevails at the Welikade prison once again. The inmates in a protest against the prison administration refused to take their meals from noon yesterday.(11)
Meanwhile two prisoners had climbed to the roof of the prison and commenced a fast . Later , a prisoner R D Mahesh , who won the award as the best prisoner too had joined those on the roof in protest.
The gate through which the prison officers can enter the area of the prisoners had been blocked by the prisoners placing barriers while the prison Authority had summoned the security forces. Three Buffel vehicles carrying commandos of the Forces and STF had been parked on the route leading to Borella , while 30 to 40 marauders in plain clothes carrying iron rods and clubs had converged near the prison gate on the Wanathamulla side.
It is the best prisoner in the prison who wears a ‘babana’ . Mahesh who also climbed to the roof is such a prisoner. He wears a silver colored broad band across his body from the neck to the waist. It is the prisons Commissioner at that time who draped him with the band 8 years ago when the prisoner was awarded. It is reported that even the prisons authority does not have the power to withdraw that band. The other prisoners were therefore thoroughly disappointed over this for compelling such a prisoner too to stage protests .
The prison officials make grandiose speeches on platforms and make loud announcements to the world that their duty is to convert the most incorrigible prisoners into reformed individuals when they leave the prison. But , this incident clearly illustrates that they are doing the very converse and are just engaged in lip service , and all their speeches are empty brags .
Apparently , the way prisons are functioning currently in defiance of the laws , very soon the prisoners may have to teach the prison officers how to behave.
Tuesday, 12 March 2013
(Mirror) - There will be no room for foreign conspiracies if the Ministry of External Affairs too, existed under President Mahinda Rajapaksa, Minister Mervyn Silva says.
(Lanka-e-News-12.March.2013, 2.30PM) A tense situation prevails at the Welikade prison once again. The inmates in a protest against the prison administration refused to take their meals from noon yesterday.(11)Meanwhile two prisoners had climbed to the roof of the prison and commenced a fast . Later , a prisoner R D Mahesh , who won the award as the best prisoner too had joined those on the roof in protest.
The gate through which the prison officers can enter the area of the prisoners had been blocked by the prisoners placing barriers while the prison Authority had summoned the security forces. Three Buffel vehicles carrying commandos of the Forces and STF had been parked on the route leading to Borella , while 30 to 40 marauders in plain clothes carrying iron rods and clubs had converged near the prison gate on the Wanathamulla side.
It is the best prisoner in the prison who wears a ‘babana’ . Mahesh who also climbed to the roof is such a prisoner. He wears a silver colored broad band across his body from the neck to the waist. It is the prisons Commissioner at that time who draped him with the band 8 years ago when the prisoner was awarded. It is reported that even the prisons authority does not have the power to withdraw that band. The other prisoners were therefore thoroughly disappointed over this for compelling such a prisoner too to stage protests .
The prison officials make grandiose speeches on platforms and make loud announcements to the world that their duty is to convert the most incorrigible prisoners into reformed individuals when they leave the prison. But , this incident clearly illustrates that they are doing the very converse and are just engaged in lip service , and all their speeches are empty brags .
Apparently , the way prisons are functioning currently in defiance of the laws , very soon the prisoners may have to teach the prison officers how to behave.
Uncle Basil has taken my father hostage – Namal
Tuesday, 12 March 2013
Parliamentarian Namal Rajapaksa has said that Minister Basil Rajapaksa is using the current crisis faced by the country before the international community to take his father, the President hostage. He had made this comment to a few media personnel affiliated to him in reference to Basil’s appointment as the SLFP National Organizer.
Namal had shown that Basil had strategically managed to secure the post by indicating to the President that he had links with the Americans and Indians through his family connections. He had observed that neither his mother nor he were aware of Basil’s appointment until it was announced. Namal had identified this appointment as a move by Basil to secure his position in the long term by using the US decision to present a resolution against Sri Lanka at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and India’s decision to support it.
According to Namal, Basil since being appointed as the national organizer had worked towards consolidating his position in the party instead of working to promote the President or him. Therefore, Namal had said that he would have to be on his guard from now on.
Envoys in Geneva are vagrants - Mervyn
(Mirror) - There will be no room for foreign conspiracies if the Ministry of External Affairs too, existed under President Mahinda Rajapaksa, Minister Mervyn Silva says.
Speaking at a meeting at the Colombo Hyde Park yesterday (11), he said that envoys in the Geneva Human Rights Commission are vagrants who are jealous of Sri Lanka and President Mahinda Rajapaksa.
However, the Sri Lankan government is not prepared to dance to the tunes of the international community, he emphasized.
‘I call upon the Geneva envoys to come to Sri Lanka and see. I also declare that the citizens of Sri Lanka will not be their followers. We can stand on our own feet,’ he further said.
