Take immediate action for demilitarized the society” – Civil Activists.
Dec 16, 2016
Civic rights groups condemned the government’s efforts on militarization the society.
“We condemn the government’s deploy of militaries to control protests and trade union actions,” said Chamara Nakandala, convener of Parapuraka Balaya (Power of generation)
“We saw that how was the navy commander attack the free armed journalist who cover the event in Hambantota”
During the press conference held at CSR on Dec. 15 Nakandala revealed the military interferences for control the protest held in Ratupaswala.
He added, “Military attacked to arm free people in Ratupaswala.”
“Government should stop militarization,” said convener of Parapuraka Balaya.
Talking to Lanka News Web Chameera Perera, convener of Left Centre said that what we appeal and force government to take immediate action against navy commander.
“It is very important to restore and establish democracy and this is what we assumed from good governance and this was the aspiration of January 8th political transformation.”
He added, “We condemn the behavior of navy commander and we saw that navy commander behaved as a thug leader not as a commander of Navy. During the common candidate campaign people of this country has expectation about demilitarization and restore democracy. Unfortunately, we saw this government soon after January 8 and continue same militarized momentum in this country. Apart from that, leaders of good governance gave morale support to military leaders despite they accused for certain extra judicial killings and abductions during MAhinda Rajapaksa regime. But unfortunately the government was dragging the process, seemed to be stagnated and ultimately paved the way towards this kind of military behavior. In that senses we assume government should take immediate action in order to demilitarized this society and importantly control the military units, military appearances in public actions. They should obey to the democratic institutions. They can’t behave like this.
Lawrence Ferdinando, Colombo.
