{"id":44119,"date":"2015-05-24T08:13:18","date_gmt":"2015-05-24T14:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=44119"},"modified":"2015-05-24T02:23:25","modified_gmt":"2015-05-24T09:23:25","slug":"removing-army-camps-from-north-by-maithripala-the-main-reason-for-increased-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/05\/24\/removing-army-camps-from-north-by-maithripala-the-main-reason-for-increased-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Removing Army Camps From North by Maithripala the Main Reason for Increased Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kumar Moshe\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

It didn’t take even two months to see the results of removing army camps from the north. The\u00a0Maithripala government must take full responsibility for the crimes that followed the victory day in 2015.<\/p>\n

Instead of accepting the responsibility for the heinous crime, the Maithripala-UNP government plays politics with the tragedy. They have even put the blame on the former president without any evidence. John Amaratunga should not be holding the ministerial post overlooking the police function as a no confidence motion was brought to parliament.\u00a0It was not allowed.<\/p>\n

Senior minister Rajitha Senaratne’s son also committed a similar crime by having an inappropriate\u00a0relationship with an under-aged girl. This crime went unpunished. By allowing his son to take the law and an under-aged girl into his dirty hands, a wrong signal was relayed to the people of the north and the south.<\/p>\n

Two crimes don’t make it right. Those who attacked the courts complex in Jaffna must also face justice. They have tested the weak national defences. The next protest will be much worse.<\/p>\n

Jaffna people have Maithripala to blame for the crime waves gripping Jaffna today.\u00a0Jaffna voters got the government they deserve!<\/p>\n

Recognising factors behind\u00a0the Jaffna hartal<\/span><\/h2>\n

(Daily News Report)<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

During police inquiries, three brothers were arrested based on information from the victim\u2019s mother, Sivaloganathan Saraswathi. In the past, Vithya\u2019s mother had witnessed a robbery committed at a doctor\u2019s house by the suspects. It is believed that the suspects committed the crime as an act of revenge. Based on the statements of the three brothers, five others were arrested the next day. One worked in the Pradeshiya Sabha office of the area while the other four were employed in Colombo.<\/p>\n

On the day of the incident, the suspects had arrived in Pungudutheevu from Colombo. It was here they had planned the gang rape and murder of Vithya.\u00a0 Soon afterwards, they left to Colombo. Thereafter again they came to Pungudutheevu and participated in Vithya\u2019s funeral. After the funeral they tried to return to Colombo but they were arrested by police.<\/p>\n

The same night, a Swiss national was caught by people in Pungudutheevu but there were no complaints against him in the police. After the intervention of the deputy minister of women\u2019s affairs in the area and a prominent lawyer, the Swiss national was released by villagers people and he escaped to Colombo. The Swiss suspect was arrested on 19th at Wellawatta after UNP Jaffna head Dhuvarageshwaran\u2019s complaint in Jaffna Police.<\/p>\n

Hartal in Jaffna<\/strong><\/p>\n

A week later, on the 20th Wednesday, a hartal was called but already the day before [Tuesday], a tense situation had prevailed with the shops being forced to close in Kasthooriyaar road and in other areas. On Wednesday, there were protests all over Jaffna and later in the morning, the protesters moved to the Jaffna Court area. They proceeded to throw stones at the Jaffna Magistrate\u2019s Court buildings damaging window panes and vehicles parked in the court premises.<\/p>\n

ive police officers were injured and 127 people were arrested by police.\u00a0 STF and more police were deployed in the town area and the situation was brought under control. People were not allowed to the court area. The reason behind the tense situation on Wednesday was because the Swiss national was due to be produced in court on that day. However, because of the tense situation he was not produced on that day but was was produced later in court on Thursday.<\/p>\n

All over Jaffna tyres were burnt to block traffic. Another 26 persons were arrested in Point Pedro. It is believed that a prominent lawyer is set to contest in next general elections representing the TNA and that there were some parties set to ignite this issue to make political gains. There were also calls to lawyers not to defend the alleged rapists in court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kumar Moshe\u00a0 It didn’t take even two months to see the results of removing army camps from the north. The\u00a0Maithripala government must take full responsibility for the crimes that followed the victory day in 2015. Instead of accepting the responsibility for the heinous crime, the Maithripala-UNP government plays politics with the tragedy. They have even […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kumar-moses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}