Thursday, December 26, 2013

Abduction of Son of Suriyakumar in Vadamarachchi: Challenge ahead of the HR Defenders

I got a serious and disturbing news today from my colleague. "Suriyakumar's son has been abducted this morning by a White Van at his home at Vadamarachchi." What? Abduction again on so called "National Safety Day?" Suriyakumar's first son was also abducted during the war period in 2008. Suriyakumar's wife is in a mental disorder due to the abduction of her first son. Now, the second son also face the same fate, even the time of so called "PEACE". How do we see this situation as the GOSL is saying there is PEACE in the country.? Just after three days time, President Mahinda Rajapakse announced that, "In Sri Lanka, there will be no more minorities. We have only two categories. Those who are Love to Country and who do not Love to the country." So, it is Patriots and Traitors are the only groups living in the country. The persons who are disappearing must be traitors. Also, there are news coming from various parts of the country about killings of underworld leaders. Police always says, "The accused was taken to find arms and while searching the arms, the accused threw a bomb to the police and police had to shoot him for self defense." The society justify those extra judiciary killings with the police claim of Under World Leader. The Right to Life HR organization, my friend Brito Fernando in particular is working on Disappeared Families. During the time of CHOGM, the HR groups who are working on disappearances were in the forefront to highlight the HR issues as this is well known to the world. We the concern groups on HR are now trying to minimize those abductions, killings and threats to HR Defenders as this is going to be a serious challenge to us coming years. Herman

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