When a lawyer intervenes, the country’s foremost bar association intervenes, a governor intervenes, a journalist intervenes, some of these people have arrested a suspect. When it was reported on social media that he was being killed illegally without being produced in court, what if the whole world knew that he was being murdered and the suspect was killed while in police custody?
Is this the country that was built 75 years after independence? Either there is a nonchalant police in Sri Lanka who cannot protect a suspect in their custody. Or it must be a place for murderers. Was it not by this illegal force that the murderous police officers killed an innocent youth and two other youths in Angulana recently? Can the IGP wear a uniform? How many such incidents have taken place in such a short period of time?
Instead of the government intervening and building transparent systems to administer justice expeditiously, the state is intervening and suppressing the truth. Our state has been built with murderers for 75 years.
Citizens should also wait until your child is labeled underworld and killed. If we are to build a society free of the underworld and free of drug trafficking, shouldn’t we allow fair trials to reveal the truth of these things first?
It is a pity that you, the citizens, have contributed in various ways to build this system. This is the country you built. Only if we think about it can the state called Sri Lanka move forward. You change. Change and change the state system that justifies these murders. Celebrate the 75th year of post-independence.
These are not the fault of politicians alone. Citizens The problem is that you are not a citizen, you are just a soul. So you become a citizen. Instead of him, let us line up for a civil society revolution.
-Lawyer Dulan Dasanayake-