OPPRESSION: Sri Lanka Democracy Under Attack. Students Arrested. 16.06.2010

What democracy do we have in Sri Lanka?
Sri Lanka police arrested student protesters who were demanding to meet offcials to discuss the matter related to a decision taken by government to reduce 4year study programme to 3yrs. The police officers appeared in the video asked the students to come with their parents next week. These students came from long distance to Colombo. Why these police officrs or government didnt want to discuss with students? Government came to power by their votes, when they are in power this is how politicians treat people.

These students should have allowed to discuss with officials on the matter without blocking them. We just ended a 30year war due to oppression, yet the government hasnt learn a leasson!

Last week 200 young couples were arrested for walking hand-in-hand and kissing. The government of Sri Lanka should immediately stop these types of oppressions before another generation take up arms.!!!!!

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Lank Truth:

About 400 students of Elite Health Sciences faculty Peradeniya University, who attempted to stage a protest opposite the University Grants Commission (UGC) in Ward Place, were forcefully loaded into five buses by the police and driven away short while ago. The protest was against the Government dicission to trim the course duration from 4years to 3years.

The Police is taking away students forcefully are now in the Kadawatha area, IUSF representative said to "Lanka Truth".

IUSF convener Udul Premerathne said the Government is suppressing the protests of students and they are ready to unite all forces against the un-democratic moves of the Government.
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Police murders and Sri Lankan media responsibility
June 17 (LG) It was recently reported (May 24th) that another man, age 33, a father of two young children, had died in Kottawa police custody. Relatives and friends claim he died as a result of a brutal police assault. According to the police, the suspect, a wanted criminal, died of a heart attack. This raises several issues. How could the police claim the victim died of a heat attack before a post-mortem had been performed?

http://www.srilankaguardian.org/2010/06/police-murders-and-sri-lankan-media.html
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Kissing ends up in court - 10 June 2010

Police in two Sri Lankan towns have detained nearly 200 young couples they accuse of indecent behaviour and will produce most of them before a court on Friday, the BBC reported.

Locals complained the young lovers were kissing, cuddling or simply holding hands, reports say.

In the central town of Kurunegala about 350 youngsters have been detained and reprimanded in the past two weeks.

Police have gone further in another town - Matara in the south - where 22 allegedly offending couples are to appear before a magistrate on Friday.

Police in Kurunegala say ordinary townsfolk have been getting increasingly annoyed and embarrassed by what they feel is indecent behaviour by hundreds of young people.

The town is a major centre of students and reports say lots of them have been hanging around in public parks and bus stands.

In rural and provincial Sri Lanka kissing and cuddling in public is seen as unacceptable - however much the capital city may be racing towards Westernisation, says the BBC's Charles Haviland in Colombo.

In Kurunegala many of the girls involved are said to be school students aged only about 15.

The police say this is why they have conducted a sweep and detained 350 offending youngsters, later taking them to their parents with a warning that if there is a repeat they may face tougher measures.
http://www.dailymirror.lk/index.php/news/4241-kissing-ends-up-in-court.html

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[NoEalamInSL]

Its election times in Sri Lanka- best time for people who want to take revenge from enemies, opponents: by killing, assaulting, burning houses, bombing.... what ever means of violence. This tradition is so embedded that two government ministers shot each other along with their supporters at polling station yesterday. Read (Oct 9 Sunday Times.lk ) "Bharatha Killed Duminda Wounded in Poll-Day Gun Battle" presidential advisor was killed in a gun battle with a rival group led by Duminda Silva..

[NoEalamInSL]

Feb 1 (LG)Sri lankan police tortured a man with hot chilies on his genitalia. Mr. Sunil Shantha was illegally arrested by the Anguruwathora police. A non-state agent abducted Sunil from the street and assaulted him in a private confinement. Later, they handed him over to the police whom the abductor entertained with liquor. The police officers tortured Sunil by massaging chopped hot chilies on his body including his eyes and genitalia. Next day Sunil was released. No charge shown before arrest.

[NoEalamInSL]

Jan 26 (LB) Banned porn websites to strike back! The CPWB warned that the possibility of banned pornographic and illegal websites opening up their sites once more which could further exacerbate the menace. The CPWB also has received information that several such sites have reappeared on the scene under different names. The CPWB took measures to ban over 1015 pornographic sites on the internet which could be browsed through one’s cell phone connections with ease.

[NoEalamInSL]

Sri Lanka Police (Galle Police ) assalt opposition politicians, JVP inside police. A former Sri Lanka cabinet minister says he was badly beaten by the police as a group of peoples' representatives went to lodge a complaint. “A police officer dragged me from the neck, pushed me aside and then assaulted me. Then Sub Inspector Dias assaulted me. Then a group of police officers surrounded me and beat my neck, head, chest and face,” Mr. Herath told BBC Sinhala service.

[NoEalamInSL]

Matara students protest against Police brutality

July 23 (SL) Over 2000 University Students from the Ruhuna Campus organized a protest against police brutality in Matara today, after 24 year old Susantha Bandara; a third year student from the University of Ruhuna, succumbed to head injuries inflicted on him by the police, some three weeks earlier. The students, who had begun their protest in Welimadama, Matara and were walking towards the Matara town,

[NoEalamInSL]

Sri Lanka police didnt object the UN protesters! Why double standards? President MR said no one is above the law. The police allowed Minister to block UN, but blocked students' peacful protest against govt il-policies. @ 1:33 police officer admitted that he assaulted GIRLS and boys who protested last week. Power distance-if you have power you can buy police, police will treat you as kings. If you are an ordinary citizen, then all rights reserved. dump like piece of shit..welcome to Sri Lanka!

[Chamath5]

WTF i s the use of Democracy

[NoEalamInSL]

We need General Fonseka in power!!!! How can we let this continue. We hoped Mahinda Chinthanaya would lisen to people, but this is a police government, a regime, a dictatorship. If students are treated like this infront of media, imagine what is happening inside police. How harsh are these police officers, treat people like animals. Where is so called civilization? dignity? arresting lovers or killing beggars or baning pornos or baning alcohol wont bring democracy to the country.

[edprotestvideos]

Solidarity!