RSF,  Thu Jan  7 22:02:21 EST 2010

    “A year has gone by without any progress in the investigation into his murder,” Lal Wickrematunge said today to Reporters Without Borders, on the eve of the first anniversary of the fatal shooting of his brother, Lasantha Wickrematunge, the Colombo-based Sunday Leader’s well-known managing editor. It is Lal who has replaced him at the helm of investigative weekly, some of whose journalists were recently threatened.
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- The Academic

One of the many sad stories in the war that
just ended. This and the many real stories
of abduction and white vans and so on.

Hope the chapter is closed and better leadership
gains currency in future.


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*I am not the only one*

rm7000 wrote:

One of the many sad stories in the war that
just ended. This and the many real stories
of abduction and white vans and so on.

Hope the chapter is closed and better leadership
gains currency in future.

I am afraid not. Sri Lanka lost any sense of the sanctity of life a long time back.

When the Tamils were killed we kept quiet. After all they were all "terrorists".

When the Sinhala Youth were annihilated during the JVP terror we kept quiet since
they were all terrorists according to the government.

When the white Vans came for the people in Colombo and other parts we meekly
kept quiet in the name of National security and fighting terrorism.

Our politicians dress up in squeaky white and worship the monks all the while plotting
and scheming where to rob,pillage,extort and murder next.

A Lasantha here a Tissanayagam there are mere incidentals in their day to day life.

And every five/six years we vote these same bunch of profound genius to power expecting the better
but knowing very well that nothing will change.