{"id":57361,"date":"2016-08-05T14:58:09","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T21:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=57361"},"modified":"2016-08-05T14:58:09","modified_gmt":"2016-08-05T21:58:09","slug":"french-national-severely-assaulted-in-matara-news-item","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/08\/05\/french-national-severely-assaulted-in-matara-news-item\/","title":{"rendered":"French national severely assaulted in Matara \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0News item\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr Sarath Obeysekera\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

IGP was boasting about beating up demonstrators \u00a0without killing them .We had news during last regime about local politicians killing\u00a0 an Israeli from UK .We also \u00a0heard how sons of big shots roaming in car parks beating others and also getting beaten up .We heard about sportsmen getting killed with the connivance some big shots .<\/p>\n

Then cam Yahaplanaya where the main topic is getting rid of thuggery .<\/p>\n

Police should act better than this to eradicate this menace.<\/p>\n

I remember ,when I came for a visit more than 40 years ago and travelled to Maskeliya and visited our school friend who was a Sub inspector of Police and he took us around in his jeep<\/p>\n

He saw some youngsters sitting on a culvert doing nothing, He stopped the jeep and asked them what they were doing and they confirmed negative .He called them in filth and chased them away with a furious face and turned to us and smiled and said police should behave like this otherwise they will\u00a0 not listen to us <\/p>\n

40 Years ago , in the capital of Azerbaijan where I was working in an Oil and Gas field on training .During a week-end I was walking in the town and a young man seeing a foreigner ,\u00a0 joined me and walked along talking to me.<\/p>\n

A Militzia ( soviet policeman ) whom we passed shouted If something happens to the foreigner ,I will chop your head off !<\/p>\n

Young man slowly walked away .<\/p>\n

Few weeks back I was walking along Galle Face carrying a long umbrella ,very peacefully. I noted that a young man looks like a drug addict pestering a young white couple sitting on a bench, and I noted the frustration on their face for not being able to get away from him<\/p>\n

Police booth was nearby\u00a0 but the cop \u00a0was (cat) \u00a0napping<\/p>\n

I pointed my long umbrella which had a \u00a0long pointed end to the young man and just said what Mokada\u201d??<\/p>\n

He treated<\/p>\n

At my age I was trying to be a hero for which my wife blasted me later , but that is the way any \u00a0vigilant ( ante)\u00a0 citizen should act .<\/p>\n

Today with Human rights ,Yahaplanaya in the forefront ,we will never be able establish discipline unless good brave young policemen are deployed to withhold law and order<\/p>\n

Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr Sarath Obeysekera\u00a0 IGP was boasting about beating up demonstrators \u00a0without killing them .We had news during last regime about local politicians killing\u00a0 an Israeli from UK .We also \u00a0heard how sons of big shots roaming in car parks beating others and also getting beaten up .We heard about sportsmen getting killed with the connivance […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57361","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=57361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}