Eco-friendly cutouts fed up with police protecting our government
Police have called for the removal of a painting by a group of youths at a makeshift exhibition in the capital to draw public attention to the environmental destruction taking place in the country.
“If banners are hung everywhere, this beautiful environment, this beautiful city of Colombo, this city will be destroyed. ”
Director SSP Roshan Rajapaksa had told reporters in Colombo last Friday that it was justifiable to remove the colossal painting “Environmental Massacre” displayed by several environmental organizations for a public awareness campaign in Colombo to coincide with World Climate Change Day. Doing.
SP Roshan Rajapaksa praised the President’s environmental friendliness and called the government “our government”.
“This kind of discussion about the environment has started today after our government came to power,” he told reporters.
However, journalist Nayanaka Ranwella says that more than 200 environmental damages have occurred during the rule of President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa.
The President has contemptuously dismissed reports of environmental damage as “false, news fiction.”
The Animal and Nature Conservation Youth Association (WAWA) has unveiled a painting titled ‘Eco-Genocide’ in front of the Nelumpokuna Theater in Colombo, in line with global awareness campaigns on global climate change. Aims to draw society’s attention to harm.
The large painting, which is 20 feet high and 70 feet long, was first removed by a group of Colombo Municipal Council employees on Friday morning. Steps had been taken to fix it.
But a few hours later, journalists in the capital caught the camera taking action to remove the large painting again on the orders of senior officers of the Police Environment Unit.
SSP Roshan Rajapaksa had requested the media to explain the reason for removing the painting banner, adding that no police permission or approval had been obtained to erect the banner.
A member of an environmental organization who requested not to be named had told the media that permission had been obtained from the Colombo Municipal Council to erect the banner and that the police had also been informed.
Attempts by the organizers to remove the painting banner, which had been removed by police order, were stopped while the painting itself was sitting on top of the painting.
Social media activists have expressed strong displeasure with the government and the police for removing the banner claiming to be harmful to the environment.