terror floating in Uva!
JVP tells IGP to act promptly
BY RUWAN LAKNATH JAYAKODY
The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) yesterday demanded IGP N.K. Illangakoon to act promptly and disarm hoodlums deployed by the United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA), and institute legal action against those goons, presently running amok and threatening the conduct of a free and fair election in Uva.
The government is deploying thugs to create a reign of terror in the Moneragala District, the JVP claimed yesterday.
General Secretary of the JVP, Tilvin Silva said the government, which from the beginning of election campaigning in Uva, was engaged in violating election laws (Sri Lanka Transport Board buses), is now using State power to destroy Party offices belonging to Opposition (14 JVP offices in total), burn stages and using firearms to oppress the people.
Armed groups arriving in Defenders are spreading fear in Monaragala, obstructing duties of Police and elections officials, he explained.
"We even have empty shell casings at our damaged and destroyed Party office premises. Yet, despite complaining to the police, no arrests have been made. Candidate Anura Widanagamage issued death threats to Elections officials. The environment has become such that the Opposition can no longer continue their campaigns," Silva lamented.
The JVP said that the thugs behind this devastation were hired groups from outside the area, adding that they were travelling in vehicles provided to security details of government big-wigs.
The government is also maintaining a lot of unauthorized offices, using a large numbers of vehicles, using public property in their campaigns and utilizing government servants (from the Ministry of Economic Development, Samurdhi officials and Ceylon Petroleum Corporation) in promotional and publicity activities, the JVP said.
"The government has turned their units into terror mongering, because they are planning a Presidential election soon. They stole three seats from the Badulla District, in which they have no faith and gave them to Monaragala. Shasheendra Rajapaksa is engaged in doling out inducements to voters. The police are also manipulated by these gangsters," Silva reiterated.
The poorest Province in Sri Lanka is Uva, the JVP opined.
"Farmers do not have water or land, or a proper selling price for their produce, yet the government is selling acres of land to companies like the Dole Food Company, from the United States of America. Roads, schools and hospitals are in dire straits. The estates and plantations are facing a bleak time and at a time when the basic rights of the people in Uva are wantonly robbed from them, floating markets are being opened for a certain class in the metropolis," the JVP explained.
JVP tells IGP to act promptlyBY RUWAN LAKNATH JAYAKODY
The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) yesterday demanded IGP N.K. Illangakoon to act promptly and disarm hoodlums deployed by the United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA), and institute legal action against those goons, presently running amok and threatening the conduct of a free and fair election in Uva.
The government is deploying thugs to create a reign of terror in the Moneragala District, the JVP claimed yesterday.
General Secretary of the JVP, Tilvin Silva said the government, which from the beginning of election campaigning in Uva, was engaged in violating election laws (Sri Lanka Transport Board buses), is now using State power to destroy Party offices belonging to Opposition (14 JVP offices in total), burn stages and using firearms to oppress the people.
Armed groups arriving in Defenders are spreading fear in Monaragala, obstructing duties of Police and elections officials, he explained.
"We even have empty shell casings at our damaged and destroyed Party office premises. Yet, despite complaining to the police, no arrests have been made. Candidate Anura Widanagamage issued death threats to Elections officials. The environment has become such that the Opposition can no longer continue their campaigns," Silva lamented.
The JVP said that the thugs behind this devastation were hired groups from outside the area, adding that they were travelling in vehicles provided to security details of government big-wigs.
The government is also maintaining a lot of unauthorized offices, using a large numbers of vehicles, using public property in their campaigns and utilizing government servants (from the Ministry of Economic Development, Samurdhi officials and Ceylon Petroleum Corporation) in promotional and publicity activities, the JVP said.
"The government has turned their units into terror mongering, because they are planning a Presidential election soon. They stole three seats from the Badulla District, in which they have no faith and gave them to Monaragala. Shasheendra Rajapaksa is engaged in doling out inducements to voters. The police are also manipulated by these gangsters," Silva reiterated.
The poorest Province in Sri Lanka is Uva, the JVP opined.
"Farmers do not have water or land, or a proper selling price for their produce, yet the government is selling acres of land to companies like the Dole Food Company, from the United States of America. Roads, schools and hospitals are in dire straits. The estates and plantations are facing a bleak time and at a time when the basic rights of the people in Uva are wantonly robbed from them, floating markets are being opened for a certain class in the metropolis," the JVP explained.