Monk attempts suicide on Wesak day at Dalada Maligawa entrance emulating Prabhakaran not Lord Buddha
(Lanka-e-News-25.May.2013-11.30PM) An extremist Buddhist monk had attempted to commit suicide in front of the entrance to the Dalada Maligawa , Kandy on the Wesak day (24) , the day considered as most sacred by Buddhists and when religious activities should be engaged in and not in sinister activities like suicide or in the manner villainous Prabhakaran and his clan acted.The name of this fanatical monk is B .Indraratne , and is from the Ratnapura Kahawatte Viharaya . Fortunately those who were around had succeeded in dousing the fire , and admitting the pro Prabhakaran style suicide attempting monk to the Kandy general hospital . It is very unfortunate that on this sacred day when monks in SL must demonstrate qualities of Lord Buddha they are trying to emulate villain Prabhakaran monk. They must learn to realize that Lord Buddha did not encourage suicide like Prabhakaran. Besides he never said cattle are more important than humans. He had always preached the uniqueness of human life and its supreme value.
While SL currently has become notorious within and without of it for ruthless human slaughter and human rights violations , this extremist monk had tried to commit suicide over the slaughtering of cattle in SL , based on his statement made a few moments prior to his suicide attempt , according to the police .
According to hospital sources , the monk is in a critical condition. As his condition was critical he had been transported by plane to the Colombo general hospital.
Subsequent inquiries have revealed that this monk, Indraratne of Bowatte who engaged in this anti religious act was a JHU member of the Pelmadulla local body ,and his membership was revoked because of his neglect of duties towards the public after being elected as their representative , that is he had been keeping away from attending the local body meetings. The JHU had earlier intimated by letter to the local body chairman that he had been sacked from the party.
later reports says The monk succumbed to his injuries at the National Hospital a short while ago, hospital sources confirmed.
Photo : R.M .R .Ratnayake
EU probes ally of Kosovo PM, ambassador for war crimes
PRISTINA |
(Reuters) - European Union police said on Thursday they had arrested five people, including a wartime ally of Kosovo’s prime minister, and were investigating the ambassador to Albania on suspicion of war crimes during Kosovo’s 1998-99 conflict.
The EU police and justice mission in Kosovo, EULEX, did not release the names of the five in detention, but a lawyer for Sami Lushtaku, mayor of the town of Skenderaj, said his client was among them and would appear in court on Friday.
Lushtaku has been regarded as close to Prime Minister Hashim Thaci since before the war, which saw NATO intervene with air strikes in 1999 to halt the killing and expulsion of ethnic Albanians by Serbian forces trying to crush an Albanian insurgency.
Lushtaku and Thaci were both senior commanders of the guerrilla Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) from the hardline Drenica region. Lushtaku is now a member of Thaci’s Democratic Party of Kosovo.
Without giving details, EULEX said in a statement the five had been investigated “for war crimes against the civilian population in the form of violation of bodily integrity and health of civilians held in a KLA detention centre located in Likovc, Skenderaj municipality”.
“One of the individuals is investigated also for war crimes in the form of killing of one civilian,” it said.
The mission is also investigating Kosovo’s ambassador to Albania Sylejman Selimi, a former KLA commander, his lawyer said.
“I was informed that my client is one of the suspects and there are allegations against him that he is involved in a case of keeping civilians in a detention centre in Likovc,” Tome Gashi told Reuters.
Gashi said his client would appear in court on Friday.
Sylejman Selimi was the commander of the Kosovo Security Force (KSF), which is trained by NATO. He left the force in 2011 to become ambassador to Albania.
Kosovo expects to transform the KSF into its own armed forces in the future but no dates have been set. Kosovo has no proper army but some 6,000 troops under NATO command patrol the new country.
The EU mission, established after Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in 2008, handles sensitive war crimes cases, in a country where the former guerrillas are revered as heroes and clan loyalties run deep.
(Reporting by Fatos Bytyci; Editing by Matt Robinson and Andrew Roche)
