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$ 2 Billion For Defence But No Freedom From Abduction In White Vans
The pall of abductions that threatened this sunny isle on the eve of the Sinhala and Tamil New Year receded somewhat with the missing political activist Kumar Gunaratnam being fortunately ‘found’ and being immediately put on a plane bound for Australia where he is resident but the ugly crime of abduction appears to have taken root in this country.
We will not comment on this alleged abduction of Gunaratnam immediately because the story has the trappings of an international spy thriller with the Defence Ministry claiming that Gunaratnam ‘had not entered’ the country and other stories of Gunaratnam going by another name. He had gone missing on the same day as another activist of his political party, the Frontline Socialist Party Dimithu Attygalle. Read her account of what happened elsewhere on these pages.
According to the Leader of the Opposition Ranil Wickremasinghe 56 disappearances have been reported in Sri Lanka during the last six months and 19 of them having occurred during the period the anti-Sri Lanka Resolution on alleged violation of human rights by Sri Lanka was being debated at the UNHRC in Geneva.
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The pall of abductions that threatened this sunny isle on the eve of the Sinhala and Tamil New Year receded somewhat with the missing political activist Kumar Gunaratnam being fortunately ‘found’ and being immediately put on a plane bound for Australia where he is resident but the ugly crime of abduction appears to have taken root in this country.
We will not comment on this alleged abduction of Gunaratnam immediately because the story has the trappings of an international spy thriller with the Defence Ministry claiming that Gunaratnam ‘had not entered’ the country and other stories of Gunaratnam going by another name. He had gone missing on the same day as another activist of his political party, the Frontline Socialist Party Dimithu Attygalle. Read her account of what happened elsewhere on these pages.
According to the Leader of the Opposition Ranil Wickremasinghe 56 disappearances have been reported in Sri Lanka during the last six months and 19 of them having occurred during the period the anti-Sri Lanka Resolution on alleged violation of human rights by Sri Lanka was being debated at the UNHRC in Geneva.
read more