After loud independence day announcement
people must be free as birds 32 houses of
oppressed people set on fire
(Lanka-e-News-09.Feb.2014, 3.00PM) Scarcely four days have elapsed since Medamulana MaRa made loud and proud announcements on the Sri Lanka independence day on the 4 th , to be heard even by the world that ‘in our country the people should have a right to live freely like how a bird is in a home nest,’ set fire to a state land – 111 garden at Nagahamulla , Meetotamulla side, Wellampitiya, where the poor people have made their shelters and lived there for decades due to the acute dearth of housing in the country. Medamaluna MaRa in a way lived up to his boast , that is he set fire to their houses and set the destitute people free to the streets sans their homes. 32 homes were razed to the ground ! In MaRa’s thesaurus driving out the people to the streets is ‘freedom’ for the people.
According to latest reports reaching Lanka e news this conflagration was caused by the Rajapakse regime. The main reason in support of this view over and above the accusations made by the victims is the directions given by the SSP in charge of the division W.M.M. Wickremesinghe who had taken up that appointment lately transferred from the President’s security division to his police officers ‘ put aside the conflagration issue and its investigation, and get ready for the election duties.’
These houses of 111 garden were identified as unauthorized wooden shelters belonging to the urban development authority and notices were issued giving three months time for the residents to evacuate. The residents who are poverty stricken and having no means to seek alternative housing have remained there unable to meet the deadline.
This sudden and mysterious fire that started at about 1.30 p.m. yesterday engulfed the whole garden in flames, with the result the houses and their contents were ruthlessly reduced to ashes, including the books and stationeries of the school children. As always in the lawless ruthless culture stoked by the regime , the Fire rescue brigade arrived only after everything had been devastated like how the police arrive after the crime is committed and the culprits have escaped, when they are informed.
The complaints received in connection with this fire have been recorded in Wellampitiya police register under 876/2014. All the complaints state that the fire suddenly started from all sides. It is clear therefore that by some inflammable substance the fire had been sparked and kindled. The recent Pettah conflagration also followed similar lines .The Kachcheri fire analyst report confirmed that the fire was caused by an inflammable substance suddenly and at once..Not only the Kachcheri fire , Sathosa fire , Port warehouse fire , BMICH fire, Pettah row of shops fire , but even the Lanka e news website building fire , Sirasa , Siyata , Sunday Leader and Udayan media Institutions all followed a common methodology suggesting arson. Mind you , another common factor characterizing these conflagrations is :no investigation was duly carried out so far in every case .
Be that as it may , the most alarming and dangerous part of these criminal activities is the chasing out of the poor families in these 32 nests (to borrow Medamulana’s own words) by burning down their homes . A government elected to power by the people should be of the people and for the people . Wreaking havoc on lives and homes of people after coming to power on their votes cannot lay claims to such a government .
People ‘s houses had never been set on fire before. Though they are unauthorized houses , yet they were in the state lands. The ruthless Medamulana land crocodiles while shedding crocodile tears for the oppressed people on political platforms for the world to see and hear are plunging the same oppressed masses into further desperation and disasters. It has made literally setting fire to their homes and metaphorically setting fire to the hearts of the abysmally suffering people who elected them to power as a weapon to achieve its ruthless, despotic and dastardly agendas and most foul goals.
While doing lip service by claiming that even the birds should have freedom to live freely , what the Medamulana land crocodiles did by setting fire when the elections are in the offing is a most cruel , bestial and sinister crime. Of course the Medamalunas must be thinking because they have enthroned themselves after dethroning the laws no law in the lawless country can rescue the people . It is best they are reminded that some day they will have to face retribution which can even be via international laws.Photos : courtesy Lankadeepa
people must be free as birds 32 houses of
oppressed people set on fire
(Lanka-e-News-09.Feb.2014, 3.00PM) Scarcely four days have elapsed since Medamulana MaRa made loud and proud announcements on the Sri Lanka independence day on the 4 th , to be heard even by the world that ‘in our country the people should have a right to live freely like how a bird is in a home nest,’ set fire to a state land – 111 garden at Nagahamulla , Meetotamulla side, Wellampitiya, where the poor people have made their shelters and lived there for decades due to the acute dearth of housing in the country. Medamaluna MaRa in a way lived up to his boast , that is he set fire to their houses and set the destitute people free to the streets sans their homes. 32 homes were razed to the ground ! In MaRa’s thesaurus driving out the people to the streets is ‘freedom’ for the people. According to latest reports reaching Lanka e news this conflagration was caused by the Rajapakse regime. The main reason in support of this view over and above the accusations made by the victims is the directions given by the SSP in charge of the division W.M.M. Wickremesinghe who had taken up that appointment lately transferred from the President’s security division to his police officers ‘ put aside the conflagration issue and its investigation, and get ready for the election duties.’
These houses of 111 garden were identified as unauthorized wooden shelters belonging to the urban development authority and notices were issued giving three months time for the residents to evacuate. The residents who are poverty stricken and having no means to seek alternative housing have remained there unable to meet the deadline.
This sudden and mysterious fire that started at about 1.30 p.m. yesterday engulfed the whole garden in flames, with the result the houses and their contents were ruthlessly reduced to ashes, including the books and stationeries of the school children. As always in the lawless ruthless culture stoked by the regime , the Fire rescue brigade arrived only after everything had been devastated like how the police arrive after the crime is committed and the culprits have escaped, when they are informed.
The complaints received in connection with this fire have been recorded in Wellampitiya police register under 876/2014. All the complaints state that the fire suddenly started from all sides. It is clear therefore that by some inflammable substance the fire had been sparked and kindled. The recent Pettah conflagration also followed similar lines .The Kachcheri fire analyst report confirmed that the fire was caused by an inflammable substance suddenly and at once..Not only the Kachcheri fire , Sathosa fire , Port warehouse fire , BMICH fire, Pettah row of shops fire , but even the Lanka e news website building fire , Sirasa , Siyata , Sunday Leader and Udayan media Institutions all followed a common methodology suggesting arson. Mind you , another common factor characterizing these conflagrations is :no investigation was duly carried out so far in every case .
Be that as it may , the most alarming and dangerous part of these criminal activities is the chasing out of the poor families in these 32 nests (to borrow Medamulana’s own words) by burning down their homes . A government elected to power by the people should be of the people and for the people . Wreaking havoc on lives and homes of people after coming to power on their votes cannot lay claims to such a government .
People ‘s houses had never been set on fire before. Though they are unauthorized houses , yet they were in the state lands. The ruthless Medamulana land crocodiles while shedding crocodile tears for the oppressed people on political platforms for the world to see and hear are plunging the same oppressed masses into further desperation and disasters. It has made literally setting fire to their homes and metaphorically setting fire to the hearts of the abysmally suffering people who elected them to power as a weapon to achieve its ruthless, despotic and dastardly agendas and most foul goals.
While doing lip service by claiming that even the birds should have freedom to live freely , what the Medamulana land crocodiles did by setting fire when the elections are in the offing is a most cruel , bestial and sinister crime. Of course the Medamalunas must be thinking because they have enthroned themselves after dethroning the laws no law in the lawless country can rescue the people . It is best they are reminded that some day they will have to face retribution which can even be via international laws.Photos : courtesy Lankadeepa
