{"id":66756,"date":"2017-06-09T15:16:04","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T22:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=66756"},"modified":"2017-06-09T15:17:10","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T22:17:10","slug":"what-a-shame-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/06\/09\/what-a-shame-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What a shame!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Mareena Thaha Reffai,\u00a0Dehiwela<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

It is only in srilanka we can find an order issued by the\u00a0 Highest authority, no less than the Honorable executive President of the sovereign country, Socialist Republic of Srilanka ( blow the trumpet) \u00a0being totally and callously ignored by all the arms of law, pretending they cannot fulfill it and still the president\u00a0 keeping mum as if he does not know how that sounds to the world.<\/p>\n

Our honorable \u00a0president, in a fit of sudden awakening, after a long slumber, when the country was literally and metaphorically burning, \u00a0orders the \u00a0immediate arrest of Gnanasara for instigating hatred and violence in open violation of all norms of decency and justice, not only of the country but more so, of the religion the \u00a0robes he is wearing is said to be representing.<\/p>\n

The police having deployed 4 teams \u2013 wow! 4 teams! I don\u2019t think even for Thajudeen\u2019s murder\u00a0 case or Lasantha\u2019s murder case 4 teams were sent \u2013 cannot apprehend him and says they do not know where he is. But he is happily issuing videos openly castigating challenging the head of the \u00a0police and even the President and the Prime minister. The very\u00a0 monk seen to be seated next to him when these videos were taken comes out in the open \u00a0and defends his saying \u2013 labbayak ne\u201d only meant not here!\u201d \u2013 and what\u00a0 do the police do \u2013 sweet nothing! Absolutely nothing! Labbayak wath ne thamay!<\/p>\n

Even a school boy today will know how to trace the original video interviewing Gnanasara in hiding, but not our erstwhile police and CID, o no, they are still drinking milk. Thotha babala!<\/p>\n

Meanwhile shops and mosques belonging to the Muslims keep getting burnt day in day out. Not a hum from the police. In spite of CCTV camera evidence nothing done. Or \u2026 wait a minute they took a person into custody, didn\u2019t they?\u00a0 The people wait with abated breath for news of the out come. 24 hours gone. Relax people, breath! You may get apnea \u00a0and die. No, no news will come. Not now, never. Don\u2019t be surprised if he gets shot while trying to escape or \u2013even more likely, end up in a luxury hospital, suddenly having had a heart attack and will spend the days at state expense. Anything is possible in this blessed country of ours!<\/p>\n

The icing on the cake is \u00a0that \u00a0a senior minster \u2013 with a smile on his face, declares in front of journalists and clicking cameras, that Gnanasara is being housed at a politician\u2019s house. Hey, Minister, aren\u2019t you supposed to be a custodian of law in this country? You declare publicly the culprit who had been ordered to be apprehended by the President, the one who is being searched\u00a0 for high and low\u201d ( hehehe!) by the police, \u00a0is hiding and you know the place where he is hiding and yet, you do nothing but declare it with that mischievous smile of yours?<\/p>\n

O tempora! O mores!<\/p>\n

But who is the culprit of all these? While \u00a0our President smiles mutely with egg all over his face being roundly ignored by law and police, while the accused is demeaning the very core of decency, \u00a0\u00a0nary a word is uttered by that hallowed man called Citizen Perrra \u2013 o yeah, he is busy eating lotus. Don\u2019t tell me he is busy with the flood relief, how many are actually in the field today?<\/p>\n

Aney, ape ratata wecha deya!<\/p>\n

Sent by:<\/p>\n

Dr. Mareena Thaha Reffai,\u00a0Dehiwela<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr. Mareena Thaha Reffai,\u00a0Dehiwela It is only in srilanka we can find an order issued by the\u00a0 Highest authority, no less than the Honorable executive President of the sovereign country, Socialist Republic of Srilanka ( blow the trumpet) \u00a0being totally and callously ignored by all the arms of law, pretending they cannot fulfill it and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66756","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=66756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}