MaRa divides country in the name of CHOGM: those in the north cannot visit south and vice versa
(Lanka-e-News-14.Nov.2013, 5.30PM) During the period of the LTTE terror the people of the south were unable to go to the north and vice versa , and consequent upon which the people had to face the most evil fallouts. Now , after the LTTE terror has ended the Medamulana Rajapakse regime which is keeping the people under its ruthless dictatorial iron heels is also barring the people of the south from traveling to the north and vice versa, it is reported.
The ban imposed on traveling from the south to the north was applied to the channel 4 media personnel , and the ban imposed on those traveling from the north to the south was applied to the three bus loads of Tamil residents of the north who came for the human rights conference in Colombo.
When 6 British media personnel of channel 4 who came to SL in view of the commonwealth summit and on visas issued duly by the Rajapakse regime , were heading for Kilinochchi from Colombo in the north bound train , they were stopped at Anuradhapura and sent back to Colombo by a Government backed group of goons and thugs .
Interestingly , in the same train of the media personnel , a team of regime’s intelligence division members have also traveled.
It were north central province chief minister S M Ranjith and his brother deputy Minister S M Chandrasena who had organized this violent goon and thug group . Public relations officer T. Upasena of the chief Minister and co ordinating secretary Nilantha Ekanayake of the deputy Minister had been present among the group of goons organized to obstruct and harass the media personnel. The MaRa police too had acted most strangely. Instead of allowing the media personnel to proceed to their destination unhindered after dispersing the violent gang , the police had acted with the latter and sent back the media personnel to Colombo under police escort.
Channel 4 news editor , Ben. D Pier a senior journalist who was in the group said , this action against them is most deplorable and discouraging vis a vis the President’s invitation extended to them to visit the country while assuring the media personnel that they could go anywhere across the country and make reports. Callum McRae who was also in the group that was blocked from traveling to the north showing a newspaper printed today , pointed out , as the government had itself stated it has given permission for them to come to SL , they have a right to travel within the country.
The journalists questioned ‘how is that the goons and gangs knew we were in that train , and that the intelligence division officers too were in the train?’
The other ugly episode was the turning back of three bus loads of Tamil residents of the north who were coming to Colombo to attend the human rights function at the UNP headquarters , Sri Kotha. The security division officers have met the owners of the buses in Vavuniya yesterday evening and warned that they should not dispatch the buses to Colombo for the human rights event under whatever circumstance, and threatened if that instruction is violated their route permits would be withdrawn .
These buses with the passengers were taken into custody this morning at Mulaitivu , Kilinochchi and Madu , and all the passengers were sent back .
All these incidents singly and cumulatively only bear out the truth that the Rajapakse regime had divided the country intentionally or otherwise. Though this regime notorious for rowdy tactics and lawless terror thinks proudly about that conduct which is akin to that of the LTTE leader who too thought proudly about his terrorism , in the not too distant future the regime too will certainly have to face the inevitable horrendous consequences to the detriment of the country and the people.
(Lanka-e-News-14.Nov.2013, 5.30PM) During the period of the LTTE terror the people of the south were unable to go to the north and vice versa , and consequent upon which the people had to face the most evil fallouts. Now , after the LTTE terror has ended the Medamulana Rajapakse regime which is keeping the people under its ruthless dictatorial iron heels is also barring the people of the south from traveling to the north and vice versa, it is reported.The ban imposed on traveling from the south to the north was applied to the channel 4 media personnel , and the ban imposed on those traveling from the north to the south was applied to the three bus loads of Tamil residents of the north who came for the human rights conference in Colombo.
When 6 British media personnel of channel 4 who came to SL in view of the commonwealth summit and on visas issued duly by the Rajapakse regime , were heading for Kilinochchi from Colombo in the north bound train , they were stopped at Anuradhapura and sent back to Colombo by a Government backed group of goons and thugs .
Interestingly , in the same train of the media personnel , a team of regime’s intelligence division members have also traveled.
It were north central province chief minister S M Ranjith and his brother deputy Minister S M Chandrasena who had organized this violent goon and thug group . Public relations officer T. Upasena of the chief Minister and co ordinating secretary Nilantha Ekanayake of the deputy Minister had been present among the group of goons organized to obstruct and harass the media personnel. The MaRa police too had acted most strangely. Instead of allowing the media personnel to proceed to their destination unhindered after dispersing the violent gang , the police had acted with the latter and sent back the media personnel to Colombo under police escort.
Channel 4 news editor , Ben. D Pier a senior journalist who was in the group said , this action against them is most deplorable and discouraging vis a vis the President’s invitation extended to them to visit the country while assuring the media personnel that they could go anywhere across the country and make reports. Callum McRae who was also in the group that was blocked from traveling to the north showing a newspaper printed today , pointed out , as the government had itself stated it has given permission for them to come to SL , they have a right to travel within the country.
The journalists questioned ‘how is that the goons and gangs knew we were in that train , and that the intelligence division officers too were in the train?’
The other ugly episode was the turning back of three bus loads of Tamil residents of the north who were coming to Colombo to attend the human rights function at the UNP headquarters , Sri Kotha. The security division officers have met the owners of the buses in Vavuniya yesterday evening and warned that they should not dispatch the buses to Colombo for the human rights event under whatever circumstance, and threatened if that instruction is violated their route permits would be withdrawn .
These buses with the passengers were taken into custody this morning at Mulaitivu , Kilinochchi and Madu , and all the passengers were sent back .
All these incidents singly and cumulatively only bear out the truth that the Rajapakse regime had divided the country intentionally or otherwise. Though this regime notorious for rowdy tactics and lawless terror thinks proudly about that conduct which is akin to that of the LTTE leader who too thought proudly about his terrorism , in the not too distant future the regime too will certainly have to face the inevitable horrendous consequences to the detriment of the country and the people.
