Thursday, 24 November 2011, 14:43

Date: Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 8:36 PM

Subject: MOVEMENT FOR JUSTICE

Date: Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 5:37 PM

Movement for Justice was launched on 23 Nov under the patronage of rev Madulawe Sobitha. MP Dayasiri, MP Sumanthiran, DPF leader Mano Ganesan, Bahu of nssp, USP leader Siritunga, Priydarsani women leader, and university teacher’s president participated in this press conference.

Dr Vickramabahu made the following speech in this meeting.

Today there is a serious challenge to democracy in this country. On the surface, one sees only democratic tendencies. We can have press conferences and protest meetings. Elections are held and parliament, provincial councils and town councils are functioning, courts are operating with out state intrusions. But all these are pretensions. There is a political terror regime working behind the scene. Justice is not done and people live in terror. It started in the Tamil areas, but now it has come to the south as well. The power of this illegitimate institute can be seen in the recent events. Senior political adviser to the President, Bharatha was killed by security personnel in broad day light in Colombo suburbs. WPC minister’s house was surrounded and searched by security forces. White van has abducted several around Colombo, while it is a common event in Tamil areas. Not only general Fonseka but thousands Tamil political prisoners are kept in unknown places while the government admitted over 800 are kept under PTA. The nature of the state terror regime could be seen by the amount allocated to the defence and related departments in the budget. Latter dominates the entire budget. Executive presidential power is used by the terror regime to legitimize its actions. Executive presidency, envelopes and covers the political terror regime. There is a logic behind, in keeping the General in prison, because, this political terror is driven by Sinhala Buddhist chauvinism and militarism. If the General is given freedom, his influence in the armed forces will be an obstacle to politicalisation of the military apparatus. Hence he is kept in prison through a travesty of justice. His image is demolished by subtle campaigns. He will not be killed but his personality will be demolished. They survive on the theory that the war against Tamils brought fortune to Lanka. The terror regime is mainly used to protect foreign investers and brokers. It protects the plunder of local resources. The truth is that the war brought the biggest misfortune of political state terror on every body. We lost our freedom and our national resources. We can win democracy and freedom only by defeating state terror that hides behind the executive presidency. Rev Sobitha explained that Gandhi challenged the British Raj; then the biggest world terror, by mass actions. We must get together to launch such a mass struggle to defeat this dictatorial terror regime.

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