TENSE SITUATION WHEN AN INDIVIDUAL ARRIVES AT LIPTON CIRCUS PROTEST
November 09, 2010: A protest was held opposite the Welikada Prison yesterday against the attack launched on a group of police officers inside the prison on Sunday.
As a result of this protest, the protest organized by a group called the ‘War Heroes for the General’ which was to take place opposite the Welikada prison, was held at the Lipton circus.
“Police officers, who are afraid of politicians and the henchmen of politicians who are linked to thuggery, told us to conduct our protest anywhere in the country and that they will assist us. We too have been in uniform just like them. Through this, the direction which the country is heading towards, is clear,” said Gayan Vithanage.
Incidentally, a tense situation arose after a certain individual arrived at the Liptom Circus, where the protest was being held.
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Hmm, Some pretending pandits (including those protestors) say democracy in Sri Lanka is dead. However, people can still freely protest against the government. Puzzling isn’t it?
Manju,
If there was true democracy, people will not have to get to the streets to express dissatisfaction.
There will be other media of a more respectable variety to express people’s thoughts and feelings.
Under VP there was no democracy. It was a dictatorship. With cast-iron will the fascist brute ruled his community. Tamils under LTTE rule were subjected to very high taxes ruthlessly. Even the dispora Tamils did not escape his tax. If they did not cough-up the money their loved ones back at home would be made to suffer. Children were abducted from homes and schools for his ragtag ‘army’. People in Jaffna and Baticaloa and the Vanni lived in mortal fear. They dare not even whisper dissent. That was the ‘democracy’ of LTTE. DC and his ilk still hanker after eelam to impose this LTTE ‘democracy’.
There is freedom in SL to express their views either through the media or in public rallies. But JVP anarchists use university students as pawns to vitiate this freedom to protest, by turning such protest marches and rallies into riots, looting, destruction of property and murder. I strongly denounce these actions of JVP and other allied parties.