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(පැතුම් වික්‍රමරත්න)
ශ්‍රී ලංකාව හා මුස්ලිම් රටවල් අතර පවතින සබඳතාවයට හානි කිරීමේ අරමුණින් දුෂ්ට ව්‍යාපාරයක් රට තුළ ක්‍රියාත්මක වන බවත්, ඒ හරහා ජාත්‍යන්තරය තුළ ශ්‍රී ලංකාව දුර්වල කිරීමට එම ව්‍යාපාරය උත්සාහ දරන බව විදේශ අමාත්‍ය මහාචාර්ය ජී.එල්. පීරිස් මහතා ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ සිටින මුස්ලිම් රටවල තානාපතිවරුන් හමුවේ ප්‍රකාශ කර සිටී.
මුස්ලිම් ප්‍රජාව රජයෙන් හුදකලා කිරීමටද මෙම දුෂ්ට ව්‍යාපාරය කටයුතු කරන බව ජී.එල්. පීරිස් මහතා, මුස්ලිම් රටවල තානාපතිවරුන් සමග ඊයේ (23) විදේශ කටයුතු අමාත්‍යංශයේදී පැවැති සාකච්ඡාවකදී ප්‍රකාශ කළේය.
මෙම දුෂ්ට ව්‍යාපාරය, සූක්ෂම ලෙස ආරම්භ කර, සම්බන්ධීකරණය කරන ලද ස්වභාවයක් පැහැදිලිවම දිස්වන බවත් විදේශ මුලාශ්‍රයන්ගෙන් සැලකිය යුතු ප්‍රමාණයක අරමුදල් මෙම ව්‍යාපාරයට ලැබෙන බවත්, විදේශ අමාත්‍යවරයා මෙහිදී පැවැසීය.
ජාතික සමගිය ඇති කරලීමටත් ශ්‍රී ලංකා රජය ඇපකැප වී කටයුතු කරන බවද අමාත්‍යවරයා මෙහිදී තානාපතිවරුන් වෙත අවධාරණය කළේය.
ඇෆ්ගනිස්ථානයේ තානාපති අසීස් අහ්මඩිසාඩා, ඉන්දුනිසීයාවේං තානාපති හරිමාවන් සුයිටිකෝ, ඉරාකයේ තානාපති බටැන්ට හා වලාග්, පලස්තීනයේ තානාපති සුහායිර් සයිඩි, සවුදි අරාබියේ තානාපති අබ්දුලසිස් ජම්මාන්, තුර්කියේ තානාපති ඉස්කන්ඩර් කෙමාල් ඔක්යායි, එක්සත් අරාබි එමීර් රාජ්‍යයේ තානාපති අබුඩිල්හමිඩ් අල් මුල්ලා, බංග්ලාදේශයේ මහ කොමාසාරිස් මොහොමඩ් සුෆීර් රහ්මාන්, මැ‍ලේසියාවේ මහ කොමසාරිස් අස්මි සයිනුඩින්, නයිජීරියාවේ මහ කොමසාරිස් එස්.කේ. අහ්මඩ්, පාකිස්තානයේ මහ කොමසාරිස් මේජර් ජනරාල් කසීම් ක්‍රරේෂි, ඊජිප්තුවේ නියෝජ්‍ය දූත මණ්ඩල ප්‍රධාන රෙහාම් අල්ෆෙකුයිග්, ඉරානයේ වැඩබලන තානාපති ඉබිරහිම් එරි, කුවේට්හි වැඩබලන තානාපති අහ්මඩ් අල්මේරි, ලිබියාවේ වැඩබලන තානාපති කමල් බෙනලාෂ්නර්, ඕමානයේ වැඩබලන තානාපති රජාබි අල් හබිෂි සහ මලාවියේ නියෝජ්‍ය මහ කොමසාරිස් ආචාර්ය හසන් නියාස් යන මහත්වරු මෙම සාකච්ඡාවට එක්වූහ.

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Having returned from Bolivia, President Mahinda Rajapaksa rushed to Beruwela, where he met Muslim representatives and discussed ways and means of restoring normalcy.

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By Jehan Perera

The government appears to have woken up to the gravity of the problem posed by repeated attacks on the Muslim community. The police have announced that they will not permit meetings that cause ethnic or religious hatred to be generated. This new policy is to be welcomed to the degree that it is implemented in fact, and is not simply restricted to rhetoric. The police have become a scapegoat for permitting the BBS to hold the public rally that ended up in anti Muslim violence. However, there is a doubt whether the government will instruct the police to go ahead and arrest and prosecute those who instigated the violence and that this will be done on the ground. Although President Mahinda Rajapaksa himself has denounced those who engage in violence, the indications are that the momentum in favour of continuation of sporadic violence that keeps the country on tenterhooks will be hard to reverse in these circumstances.

The latest victim of anti Muslim carnage has been the large "No Limit" Department Store in Panadura, a town that is close to the scene of the large scale anti Muslim violence the previous week in Aluthgama. Although the preliminary police reports stated that it was possibly due to an electrical fault in the middle of the night, the timing of the fire suggests a connection with the previous violence. The Police Spokesman has been reported as saying that a group had asked all Muslim shops to be closed on Thursday but No Limit stores in Wellawatte and Dehiwela had remained open. Six persons, four in a three wheeler and two on a motorcycle had met the managers at the two shops and demanded to know why they remained open while other shops were closed. This suggests a pre-planned operation, just as much as the way in which the Aluthgama violence took place suggests another pre-planned operation.

However, there is an effort to downplay the significance and the seriousness of the anti-Muslim violence by both those who are public spirited and those who are narrowly nationalist. There are public spirited citizens who believe that the violence must not be given prominence as it is detrimental to the country's national interests. Already some countries have put Sri Lanka on their travel advisories due to the violence, which would negatively impact on the tourist industry. It would also lead to prospective foreign investors deciding to invest in other countries rather than take the risk of seeing their investments go up in flames due to an eruption of communal violence. There are also some who would wish to downplay the violence by saying that the violent acts of a few tarnish the good name of the majority of Sinhala Buddhist people who do not agree with what is being done in their name.

POLITICAL BENEFIT

The anti Muslim violence in Aluthgama has once again highlighted the vulnerability of Sri Lankan society to ethnic and religious polarization. The attack on Muslim-owned shops and houses in the town was by people who came from outside for the most part. However, previous such attacks were on individual targets, including mosques and shops. In most of those previous incidents the responses by the police and security forces was slow or ineffective with the miscreants going free, which created a climate of impunity for the attackers. The costs have been high with at least four persons being reported killed, more than 80 injured and many shops and houses destroyed or damaged. The actual casualty figures may be more.

The government failed in its duty on more than one count. The immediate failure was to permit a public rally in Aluthgama that led to the mob violence. The rally was held in the aftermath of an altercation between a small group of Muslim men and a Buddhist monk over a traffic dispute on the road. The version that appeared in the media was that three Muslim men assaulted a Buddhist monk after getting into an altercation with his driver. Another version is that it was the driver who got assaulted and not the monk. Whatever be the truth of the matter, it is totally unacceptable that there should have been any sort of attack on shops and homes of others merely because they belonged to the same ethnic or religious community of the persons with whom a private dispute had arisen. Such acts of collective vengeance are what racism is about. It would be necessary for the government to compensate those who lost their lives and properties in the communal attacks in which the government failed in its duty to protect them.

On the other hand, the political benefits that accrue to those who are instigating or justifying the violence remain high. The Sinhalese nationalist parties within the government which appeared to be on collision course with the government a few weeks ago, on issues such as corruption and devolution of power to the Tamils, now have emerged as its strongest defenders. They are claiming that the violence was actually started by the Muslims and that they too should be blamed, which is comforting to the Sinhalese majority who are unsure of the facts of the case. The government has therefore been able to rally together the Sinhalese and able to claim even an international conspiracy to discredit the country and put it further into trouble. The political benefits that therefore accrue to the government can tend to perpetuate the violence that has been continuing now for over two years.

GOVERNMENT FAILURES

The danger in permitting the situation to drift is that it can lead to radicalization. Inter community relations between Sinhalese and Muslims are currently not based on fear of each other. Undoubtedly there are misapprehensions and prejudices that members of different communities have with each other. But even though some of them might look down upon the others’ cultural and religious practices, there is no fear of each other. This can change if the present sporadic violence engaged in organizations such as BBS are permitted to grow. Sections of the media that valorize those who have been at the forefront of attacking the other community can create role models for youth which will lead to violence in the future. If the situation deteriorates the next step in the downward spiral will be fear of the other. Sri Lanka will move in the direction of further entrenched conflict. We only recently got out of one, now we are heading towards another.

Thus far the Muslims have chosen the path of engagement as their way of conflict resolution. They have stayed within the framework of overall government policy even while asserting their rights. This is because the Muslims have decided that they are going to live side by side with the other communities in Sri Lanka and there is no desire for separation on their part. Although the SLMC presented a document to the UN Human Rights Commissioner giving details of incidents of harassment of Muslims, it continues to remain a partner of the government. Although Minister Rishad Bathiudeen filed legal action against the BBS for marching into his ministry and defaming him, he remains committed to the government. This is evidence of both pragmatism and also the desire to solve problems within the existing framework. This needs to be appreciated by the larger community of Sri Lankans, cherished and built upon.

Sri Lanka's own history and international experience shows that inter-community relations are fragile, and there is a need for eternal vigilance, which is the price of democracy. The deeper failure of the government has been its unwillingness to come out and affirm to the country at large that the Muslims and other ethnic minorities are part and parcel of Sri Lanka's plural society and hate campaigns against them are impermissible. Instead for two or more years the BBS has been permitted to propagate the view that Sri Lanka is a Sinhala Buddhist country, and that the Muslims in particular are a threat to its unique identity. The sustained hate campaign against the Muslim community in the Aluthgama area and elsewhere in the country has not been countered by either legal or political means. It is tragic that five years after the end of an ethnic-based civil war, another dimension of communal violence is opening up to cause immense suffering to innocent people. A policy of zero tolerance to those who promote communal hatred needs to be implemented.

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Army Commander Lt. Gen. Daya Ratnayake unveiled a plaque naming a new auditorium after Colonel Fazly Laphir at the Diyatalawa Military Academy on Friday. The opening of the Colonel Fazly Laphir Memorial Auditorium coincided with the passing out of those 60 Officer Cadets from Intake 78, Intake 53 ‘A’ (volunteer) and Lady Intake 12 ‘A’. Col. A.F. Lafir, PWV, RWP, RSP, SF, was the Commanding Officer of the First Special Forces Regiment. He played a major role in the formation and development of the regiment from the original Combat Tracker Team. He was killed on 18 July 1996 by the LTTE during a rescue mission he led when the Mullaitivu army base was attacked by the LTTE. For making the supreme sacrifice for the army and the country, Lafir was awarded the Parama Weera Vibhushanaya, the highest award for valour of the Sri Lanka Army and promoted to the rank of Colonel posthumously. Anoma Lafir, wife of Col Lafir looks on.   http://www.island.lk/

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Sat, 2014-06-21 08:35 — editor

Constituency politics, the bane of Sri Lanka’s democracy has prevented important issues being discussed openly as political parties have not taken the initiative to do this fearing a loss of votes from their constituencies. This inaction has left these issues to simmer beneath the surface and mutate into ugly extremist viruses that threatens the secularism of the country. Unless there is an open discussion now on issues that causes friction amongst various religious groups in the country, the nation will become sick and not a healthy country for the future generations.

The historical English proverb “for want of a nail, a Kingdom was lost” describes a situation in which the failure to anticipate or correct some initially small dysfunction could lead to more critical and undesirable outcomes, describes the situation in Sri Lanka. The country witnessed this in recent times when in the late seventies/early eighties, then President J R Jayewardene brushed aside the LTTE as a handful of disgruntled youth and that he could handle them with no difficulty. More than 30 years later, history now tells us a different story.

The violence against the Muslims in Sri Lanka, specifically in Aluthgama, Beruwala and some areas in the Uva province, allegedly orchestrated by a few extremist elements led by a person who calls himself a Buddhist Monk, when everything he seems to be doing is anything but what a Buddhist Monk would do, has led to many negatives for Sri Lanka.

A government minister has made a statement saying Muslim Jihadis supported by the US were behind these incidents. Rather than aiming wildly, and taking the often stated view that someone else and not Sri Lankans themselves are responsible for their problems, the minister concerned, and more specifically the government, should provide details about who was responsible for this outrage to the general public in Sri Lanka if what many seem to believe, that is, the BBS or elements of it were responsible for this violence is unfounded.

It needs to be noted that the Terrorism Research and Analysis Consortium (TRAC) a research and link aggregator owned by the Beacham group, had classified Bodu Bala Sena as a ‘terrorist organization’ in April 2014.

As mentioned earlier, this incident has shown serious dents in Sri Lanka’s secularism. Firstly, it has led to some saying that communal and religious harmony in Sri Lanka, despite an outward display of harmony, has always been extremely tenuous, fragile and operating on very thin ice, ready to break and fall into an abyss when lit by even the shortest fuse.

Some say this harmony is a myth, and underneath a façade of harmony, there lies a latent but simmering discord within minorities that could erupt at any time.

These could be unkind generalisations as an overwhelming majority of all Sri Lankans are tolerant and respectful of each other’s ethnicity and religion and they have lived in peace with each other. They have and will continue to co-exist as fellow Sri Lankans.

However, as recent history has shown, it has always been a minority, even a handful of extreme elements that have been responsible for shaming the majority, and shaming the country internationally.

The responsibility for this is not just with that minority. It is far more clearly with those who have been empowered to act decisively by the majority, to ensure extreme minorities do not disrupt even the fragile harmony of the country.

President JR Jayewardene failed to do this in the early eighties, and the country experienced a 30 year period of violence unprecedented not just in Sri Lanka but even in many other countries.

Unless President Mahinda Rajapaksa takes decisive action to stop these extremists in their tracks, he could suffer substantial political damage, the country would be shamed and will suffer, and there could be serious economic consequences to the country that could lead to dissatisfaction, unrest and even widespread violence.

Unlike the LTTE, which primarily drew support from Tamil Nadu and for domestic political reasons, drew some support from some Western nations, and also some international organisations, the Muslims of Sri Lanka could draw support from 1.5 Billion Muslims, and economic consequences from the Middle Eastern countries could cripple Sri Lanka.

Secondly, some who wanted to believe in the direction of the current government despite some misgivings have begun to feel helpless and dejected as they feel that governance is not on the basis of what is right, but what is politically expedient.

Although it is not the practice of this writer to mention rumours that are unsubstantiated, it needs to be mentioned, that there is an underlying disquiet that powerful sections of the government have been close to the Bodu Bala Sena, although it is now known that the founder President Ven Kirama Wimalajothi Thera had disassociated himself from the BBS some six months ago and he has now resigned as the head of the BBS claiming it has gone out of control.

According to Ven Kirama Wimalajothi Thera. The BBS was formed to assist Buddhist Monks to teach Buddha’s teaching; exactly what Buddha wanted the Maha Sangha to do. In this context, one cannot criticise the government for having had some communications with the BBS, as they would do with any organisation, religious or communal for political purposes.

However, what one cannot but help wondering is why a powerful government, knowing the head of the BBS had not taken any active part in some laudable BBS activities, had watched in silence while extreme elements bent on violence and inciting violence, had taken control of a benign organisation.

The feeling of helplessness and dejection comes with the growing disenchantment not just with the government but even more so with the main Opposition party the UNP and the absence of a powerful and effective Opposition which many feel has been an ineffective element in the governance system in Sri Lanka.

Thirdly, there seems to be a growing opinion that in order to counter the above two points and the human right violations of the minorities, external intervention of some description is needed to ensure these rights are not under threat. Ironically, some who opposed the UNHRC enquiry on Sri Lanka, now appear to be saying that it is in fact needed as the intolerance shown by some Sinhala Buddhists, albeit a very small minority of them, is an indication that atrocities may have been committed against the Tamil minority during the last few years prior to the war against the LTTE and during the war as well.

There are other developments related to this spate of violence that is equally or even more concerning. This is the insidious violence that is being perpetrated against people who have been opposed to the extremist, violent brand of Buddhist supremacist advocacy, like the Ven Watareka Vijitha Thero who has been subject to the most inhuman kind of violence, and two policemen in Mawanella who had acid thrown at them reportedly because they prevented some persons from harming Muslims in Mawanella.

These incidents, although isolated as they seem, are somehow dangerous signs of intolerance of opinion as violent extremism appears to be not as isolated and limited to a few people as it is made out to be. These developments cannot be taken lightly and neither can one take an Ostrich attitude with the head in the sand and imagine the issue will simply go away.

The government needs to act quickly and decisively to firstly make sure the incidents of the last few days do not happen again and that all communities are able to live without fear and persecution, and secondly, they need to weed out the root cause of this intolerance against minority communities so that whatever genuine issues are there amongst religious groups could be discussed by moderates and solutions found.

There are issues that may need to be discussed by all parties. The concerns that some Buddhists have are not without foundation. A degree of religious extremist orthodoxy that causes friction within the social fabric of the country and seen amongst some Muslims, was highlighted by a prominent Islam scholar Dr Amir Ali in an interview with Ranga Jayasuriya appearing in Ceylon Today was mentioned in article published in the Asian tribune on the 23rd of July 2013 (Muslims in Sri Lanka are self-alienating themselves from the mainstream community – Dr Ameer Ali)

Dr. Ameer Ali, a prominent Islamic scholar and a former adviser on Muslim Affairs to former Australian Prime Minister, John Howard's Government, and an academic at the Faculty of Management and Governance of Murdoch University, had said that Muslims in Sri Lanka are self-alienating themselves from the mainstream community.

He had said the crucial issue for the Muslim community in Sri Lanka is to decide whether they want to be Muslims of Sri Lanka or Muslims in Sri Lanka. Dr Ali noted that since the 1970s, there has been the development of orthodox Islam, something new to this country and many issues had come up due to the new brand of imported Islam.

Friction that this may have caused with Buddhism and Buddhist activists has never been addressed by successive governments and the period of LTTE terrorism and violence had left this simmering issue in the backburner while orthodoxy amongst some Muslims grew and spread wide and deep while resentment amongst some Buddhists got more and more acute.

Counter activism by some Buddhists would have taken root when no action was taken by the State to initiate a discussion amongst all groups to arrive at a consensus solution to this issue. It is possible that the BBS may have been formed to counter this situation by activists engaging in the spread of Buddhist teaching.

Constituency politics, the bane of Sri Lanka’s democracy has prevented important issues being discussed openly as political parties have not taken the initiative to do this fearing a loss of votes from their constituencies. This inaction has left these issues to simmer beneath the surface and mutate into ugly extremist viruses that threatens the secularism of the country. Unless there is an open discussion now on issues that causes friction amongst various religious groups in the country, the nation will become sick and not a healthy country for the future generations.

- Asian Tribune -

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16 June

• The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Mr. Iyad Ameen Madani

• UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon

• UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay

• US State Department

• US Embassy in Colombo (in Tamil, English and Sinhala)

• Andrew Bennett, Canada’s Ambassador for Religious Freedom

17 June

• National Christian Evangelical Alliance of Sri Lanka (NCEASL)

• National Peace Council (NPC)

• Ven. Davuldena Gnanissara Thera, the Chief Prelate of the Amarapura Sect

• Sri Lanka’s Leader of the Opposition Ranil Wickremesinghe

• National Shoora Council (image)

• Canadian Tamil Congress (CTC)

• Amnesty International (AI)

• Sri Lankans Without Borders and 18 other Canadian groups

• GTF joins international condemnation of inter-communal violence in Sri Lanka

18 June

• Centre for Policy Alternatives, in Tamil, Sinhala and English (CPA)

• Tamil Civil Society Forum (in English and Tamil)

• Tamil groups condemn attacks against Muslims, call for justice

• European Union (EU) (See full statement here in Sinhala, Tamil and English)

• The United States Tamil Political Action Council (USTPAC)

• Women and Media Collective (WMC)

• National Christian Council of Sri Lanka (NCCSL)

• DMK condemns violence against Sri Lankan Muslims

19 June

• Friday Forum

• Civil society statement (Sri Lankan Government: Take Urgent Action to Stop Attacks on Muslims)

• Free Media Movement (FMM)

• The Muslim Council of Sri Lanka

• Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC)

• Human Rights Watch

• The South Asian Free Media Association

• Ambassador Samantha Powers, United States Ambassador to the United Nations

• NSSP statement (video)

20 June

• Statement on Aluthgama violence by Rt. Revd Dhiloraj R. Canagasabey, Bishop of Colombo

• Right of Reply, Sri Lanka, 26th Session of the UN Human Rights Council

• Statement by leading film, theatre and TV artistes (in English and in Sinhala)

• MR orders police action over hatred (audio recording released by Presidential Media Unit)

• Sajith Premadasa’s media statement

21 June

• Young Political Leaders’ Forum (YPLF), STATEMENT ON CONDEMNING THE RECENT ACTS OF VIOLENCE IN ALUTHGAMA (in Tamil, Sinhala and English)

23 June

• Statement by former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunge

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පසුගිය සෙනසුරාදා මුස්ලිම් ජාතිකයෙකුට අයත් වෙළඳසැලක් ගිනිබත් කිරීමට විරෝධය පළකරමින් ලබන සඳුදා දිනයේ මුස්ලිම් කණ්ඩායම් කිහිපයක් එක්ව හර්තාලයක් සංවිධානය කර ඇති බවට තොරතුරු ලැබීමෙන් පසු අගනුවර ආරක්ෂාව තර කිරීමට පියවර ගත් බව පොලිස් මාධ්‍ය ප්‍රකාශක ජ්‍යෙෂ්ඨ පොලිස් අධිකාරි අජිත් රෝහණ ප්‍රකාශ කරයි.

“සඳුදා හර්තාලයක් පවත්වන බවට තොරතුරැ ලැබිලා තියෙනවා, කලබලයක් ඇතිවීම වැලක්වීමට අවශ්‍ය පියවර අපි අරගෙන යනවා. ආරක්ෂාව තර කර තිබෙනවා,” යැයි ඔහු පැවසීය.

පොලිස් ප්‍රකාශකවරයා මේ බව පැවසුවේ බෞද්ධ අන්තවාදීන් පාලනය කිරීමට අපොහොසත්වීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් වගකීම පොලීසිය භාරගත යුතු බව සියලු ජනමාධ්‍යය එක්සත්ව කියා සිටීමෙන් අනතුරුවයි.

පොලිස් මාධ්‍ය ප්‍රකාශක

"එක පුද්ගලයෙකුට පමණක් වරද පැටවීම වැරදියි. මීට කරුණු ගණනාවක් බලපාලා තිබෙනවා"

අළුත්ගම දී මුස්ලිම් වැසියන්ට එල්ල කෙරුණ ප්‍රහාරයෙන් හතර දෙනකු ජීවිතක්ෂයට පත් වූ අතර තවත් අසූවකට වැඩි පිරිසක් තුවාල ලද අතර විනාශ වූ නිවාස සහ වෙළඳසැල් ගණන සියයකට වැඩිය.

පළාතේ නීතිය හා සාමය ආරක්ෂා කිරීමට අපොහොසත් වූ හෙයින් පොලිස්පති එන් කේ ඉලංගකෝන් ධුරයෙන් අස්විය යුතු බව ජනමාධ්‍ය කියා සිටියි.

'පොලිස්පති අස් විය යුතුයි'

 

පොලිස්පති අස් විය යුතු බවයි The Nation පුවත් පත සිය කතුවැකිය මුල් පිටුවේ පල කරමින් ඉල්ලා සිටින්නේ.

ජනමාධ්‍ය එල්ල කරන චෝදනාව ජ්‍යෙෂ්ඨ පොලිස් අධිකාරි අජිත් රෝහණ ප්‍රතික්ෂේප කළේය.

“එක පුද්ගලයෙකුට පමණක් වරද පැටවීම වැරදියි. මීට කරුණු ගණනාවක් බලපාලා තිබෙනවා” යැයි ඔහු කියා සිටි බවයි ප්‍රංශ පුවත් සේවයේ අමල් ජයසිංහ බීබීසී සංදේශයට පැවසුවේ.

අළුත්ගම කලබල වලට වගකිව යුතු අන්තවාදී බොදු බල සේනා සංවිධානයේ කටයුතු පාලනය කිරීමට අපොහොසත් වීමත් ජනමාධ්‍යයේ විවේචනයට ලක් විය.

ලංකාවේ බෞද්ධ ජනතාව බහුතරයක් භික්ෂුන් වහන්සේ කිහිප නමක් විසින් දරන අන්තවාදී මත වලට සහාය නොදක්වන බව කියා සිටින ලංකාවේ පුවත්පත් අර්බුදය තව දුරටත් ඔඩු දුවා යාමට පෙර එය පාලනය කල යුතු යැයි සඳහන් කරන බවයි අමල් ජයසිංහ පවසන්නේ.

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පසුගිය ඉරිදා අලුත්ගමදී හටගත් ගැටුම් සම්බන්ධයෙන් අත් අඩංගුවට ගත් සැකකරුවන් 13 දෙනකු දේශපාලන බලපෑම් මත පොලිසිය විසින් වහාම නිදහස් කරන ලද බව පොලිස් ආරංචි මාර්ග බීබීසී සංදේශයට පැවසීය.

බෞද්ධ භික්ෂූන් වහන්සේ පිරිසකගේ බලපෑම් මත මෙම සැකකරුවන් පිරිස නිදහස් කරන මෙන් කළුතර දිස්ත්‍රික්කය භාර නියෝජ්‍ය පොලිස්පති වී ඉන්ද්‍රන් ට නියෝග කරන ලද බවට ජ්‍යෙෂ්ඨ නියෝජ්‍ය පොලිස්පති ගාමිණී නවරත්නට චෝදනා එල්ල වී තිබේ.

එම නියෝගය තරයේ ප්‍රතික්ෂේප කිරීම හේතුවෙන් නියෝජ්‍ය පොලිස්පති ඉන්ද්‍රන් අලුත්ගම සහ බේරුවල පොලිස් වසම් භාරව කටයුතු කිරීමෙන් ඉවත් කොට ඇති බවත්, ගාමිණී නවරත්න නියෝජ්‍ය පොලිස්පතිවරයා විසින් ඔහුට එරෙහිව පොලිස්පතිවරයාට චෝදනා පත්‍රයක් භාර දී ඇති බවත් ජනමාධ්‍ය වාර්තා කරයි.

ප්‍රහාරවලින් දහස් ගණනක පිරිසකට උන් හිටි තැන් අහිමි විය

එහෙත් එම චෝදනා සියල්ල සත්‍යයෙන් තොර බව නියෝජ්‍ය පොලිස්පති ගාමිණී නවරත්න සංදේශයට පැවසීය.

'මේ දක්වා චෝදනා පත්‍රයක් නෑ'

"අත් අඩංගුවේ සිටින සැකකරුවන් නිදහස් කිරීම පොලිස් ස්ථානාධිපතිගේ අභිමතය පරිදි හෝ අධිකරණය මගින් සිදුවිය යුතු බවට නීතියේ සඳහන් වෙනවා. නියෝජ්‍ය පොලිස්පතිවරයෙකුට හැකියාවක් නෑ එවැනි නිදහස් කිරීමක් කරන්න," යන්නයි සංදේශය මතු කළ ප්‍රශ්නයට ජ්‍යෙෂ්ඨ නියෝජ්‍ය පොලිස්පතිවරයාගේ ප්‍රතිචාරය වූයේ.

පසුගිය සඳුදා අගමැතිවරයාගේ නායකත්වයෙන් කළුතරදී රැස්වීමක් පැවැත්වෙන අතරවාරයේ එහි පැමිණි භික්ෂුන් වහන්සේ පිරිසක් අදාළ සැකකරුවන් පිරිස නිදහස් නොකරන්නේ නම් යලි උද්ඝෝෂණ දියත් කරන බවට තර්ජනය කරන ලද බවයි, මාධ්‍ය වාර්තාවල දැක්වෙන්නේ.

"මෙතනදි සාධාරණ සැකයක් මතුවෙනවා කළුතර ප්‍රදේශය භාර නියෝජ්‍ය පොලිස්පති ඉන්ද්‍රන් අතින් යම්කිසි රාජකාරී පැහැර හැරීමක් සිදුවෙලා ඔහු ඒක වහ ගන්න මෙවැනි කතා පතුරනවද කියල"

ජ්‍යෙෂ්ඨ නියෝජ්‍ය පොලිස්පති ගාමිණී නවරත්න

ඉන් අනතුරුව සැකකරුවන් නිදහස් කරන මෙන් ජ්‍යෙෂ්ඨ අමාත්‍යවරයකු විසින් ජ්‍යෙෂ්ඨ නියෝජ්‍ය පොලිස්පති නවරත්නට නියෝග කොට ඇති බවත් එම වාර්තාවල සඳහන්.

"එසේ කරන්නේ නම් එය ලිඛිතව සිදුකළ යුතුයි. මම එවැනි නියෝග කිරීමක් කිසිවිට සිදුකර නෑ. මට එහෙම නිදහස් කරන්න කියල කිසිම දේශපාලනඥයෙක් අණ කරලත් නෑ," යනුවෙන්ද ජ්‍යෙෂ්ඨ නියෝජ්‍ය පොලිස්පති නවරත්න සංදේශයට පැවසීය.

ජුනි 15 වෙනිදා සහ 16 වෙනිදා සිදුවූ ගැටුම් සම්බන්ධයෙන් නිසි පරිදි ක්‍රියාත්මක වීමට නොහැකිවීම හේතුවෙන් නියෝජ්‍ය පොලිස්පති ඉන්ද්‍රන් තමන්ගෙන් සිදුවූ වරද වසා ගැනීම සඳහා මෙවැනි කතාවක් ප්‍රබන්ධ කිරීමට පෙළඹිය හැකි බවද ඔහු පැවසීය.

"මෙතනදි සාධාරණ සැකයක් මතුවෙනවා කළුතර ප්‍රදේශය භාර නියෝජ්‍ය පොලිස්පති ඉන්ද්‍රන් අතින් යම්කිසි රාජකාරී පැහැර හැරීමක් සිදුවෙලා ඔහු ඒක වහ ගන්න මෙවැනි කතා පතුරනවද කියල," යනුවෙන් ඔහු සඳහන් කළේය.

එසේනම් ඉන්ද්‍රන් නියෝජ්‍ය පොලිස්පතිවරයා යටතේ තිබූ බේරුවල සහ අලුත්ගම ප්‍රදේශ ඔහුගෙන් ඉවත්කරන ලද්දේ කවර හේතුවක් නිසාදැයි ප්‍රශ්න කළ විට ගාමිණී නවරත්න සඳහන් කළේ එය තමාගේ විෂයයෙන් පරිබාහිර කරුණක් බවයි.

නියෝජ්‍ය පොලිස්පති ඉන්ද්‍රන්ට එරෙහිව විනය පරීක්ෂණයක් නිර්දේශ කරමින් චෝදනා පත්‍රයක් නිකුත් කළේදැයි විමසූ අවස්ථාවේ එවැන්නක් 'මේ දක්වා' සිදුවී නොමැති බව ජ්‍යෙෂ්ඨ නියෝජ්‍ය පොලිස්පතිවරයා කියා සිටියේය.

මේ පිළිබඳව කරුණු විමසීම පිණිස නියෝජ්‍ය පොලිස්පති වී ඉන්ද්‍රන් සහ අමාත්‍ය බැසිල් රාජපක්ෂ ඇමතීමට සංදේශය දැරූ උත්සාහය සාර්ථක නොවීය.

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යාපනය නගරය ආසන්නයේ පිහිටි මුස්ලිම් පල්ලියකට ඊයේ සිකුරාදා රාත්‍රී ප්‍රහාරයක් එල්ල කොට ඇති බව වාර්තා වෙයි.

යතුරු පැදියකින් පැමිණි කිසියම් පිරිසක් විසින් පල්ලියට පහරදී පලා ගොස් ඇති බව එහි භාරකාර සභාවේ අස්මින් අයුබ් මවුලවි ප්‍රකාශ කළේය.

කුඩා පල්ලියක් වන එහි වීදුරු කැඩී බිඳී ගොස් ඇති බව පැවසූ අස්මින් අයුබ් මවුලවිවරයා,ඒ සම්බන්ධයෙන් පොලීසියට පැමිණිලි කිරීමෙන් අනතුරව පොලීසිය පැමිණ පරීක්ෂණ ආරම්භ කළ බව පැවසුවේය.

පොලීසිය සහ හමුදාව එම පළාතේ සිටින නිසා ආරක්ෂක අංශ වලට සැකකරුවන් අත්අඩංගුවට ගැනීමට ඇති හැකියාව පිළිබඳව අස්මින් අයුබ් මවුලවි විශ්වාශය පල කළේය.

ප්‍රහාරයට ලක් වූ මුස්ලිම් පල්ලියට සහ ඒ අවට ප්‍රදේශයට මේ වනවිට පොලිස් ආරක්ෂාව යොදවා ඇති බවයි වවුනියාවේ සංදේශය වාර්තාකරු දිනසේන රතුගමගේ ප්‍රකාශ කළේ.