This is how the Government celebrates Independence Anniversary, Court Orders against Sit Ins

 Tuesday, 04 February 2014 

'While preparing to celebrate the 66th anniversary of independence, the government is engaged in an odious process of blocking students’ fights that are based on just demands. Consequently, the police have obtained court orders to immediately remove, the continuous sit-in being held at the Galaha Junction against cutting down the four year, Allied Health Sciences degree course into three years and the continuous sit-in being held at the University of Rajarata premises in Mihintale, based on nine demands' said by Inter University Student's Federation .

The IUSF futher states 'the police have informed the students that these court orders have been obtained after taking into consideration any damage that might happen to public peace, lives, public property and private property. However, all these struggles were in fact supported by the public in the past few weeks. Trade Unions, Mass organizations and Religious leaders have extended their support to these struggles without any condition. Therefore, because these sit-ins are conducted by the students very peacefully, it is apparent that these sit-ins do not cause any public nuisance and that there had been no damage to public property until this point nor will there be any in the future'

See more details of their statement follow

In spite of its ability to end these sit-ins by giving solutions to the problems of the students, the government is trying to end these sit-ins through anti-democratic means in order to show it to the world that this is country is a place where people can live in freedom. The current government will not think twice to attack the students using the security forces for that purpose. This means that the lives of students participating in these peaceful sit-ins are in an extremely dangerous situation. However we stress that the police and the government will be responsible for any damage that might fall upon the lives of these students. Today, the government is using the very laws that ought to be used for the safety of the public in order to repress the public.

As a result of the forced military training for university students, the government which is holding parades to celebrate freedom took the life of a student right before that celebration. With the aid of court orders, the government has obtained an official power to commit murder in the coming days.

While condemning this odious anti-democratic process of the government we wish to inform the authorities that students’ struggles will not be abandoned until proper solutions are given!