President MAHINDA RAPES FREEDOM.

   By our previous article “Mahinda Chinthanaya , the graveyard of freedom?” we talked about the degree of restriction of freedom in Sri Lanka under president of Sri Lanka and his racist and idiotic gang of disciples calling themselves “people’s artists” and get the utmost benefit from the corrupt government , while digging graves to their fellow artists and journalist , who have opposite ideas. Though with reluctance , we have to admit that the condition has worsened over last few months and has now risen up to the degree of kidnapping , killing and extra judicially detaining journalist under fallacious charges , and sealing newspapers based on those charges. Lets briefly summarize that did they do up to now.

1. Sealing of CBNsat. :- It was the most popular satellite television service in Sri Lanka, which provided  packages of foreign television channels at affordable prizes. (these prizes were as low as $5.00 , $9.00 and $14.00 per month , so that even the lower middle class could have afforded them. Those packages included BBC , CNN , National Geographic , Discovery , ESPN , Star sports and many other movie and cartoon channels. In march 2006 , this service was sealed by Crime Investigations Department under the false charges that it transmit a Tamil Tiger channel NTT. Apart from that , it had been hated by many government channels cos satellite channels challenge sole authority of government channels in telecasting cricket matches , which they buy after paying to international sports channels. Racist politicians also hated it cos it can’t be controlled under extremist regulations enacted by government towards local channels. Buddhist monks also probably hated because people watching foreign channels will reduce their popularity and income , as they are paid in great amounts to poya day discussions in local channels.

               The case against CBN was heard for nine months and at last supreme court ruled out that there is no charge against CBN and it could resume services immediately. Though they were free , after sealing for nine months , their economy had been crippled and therefore couldn’t afford a resumption. Instead they sold the company to Dialog telekom , the foremost GSM and GPRS service provider in the country. Now they are running CBNsat in name of Dialog TV , and we are happy that independent foreign transmissions couldn’t be stopped by racist efforts of government.

2.Restriction on freedom of press :- Everyone prefers safety. It’s universally true and that’s why UN declaration of human rights has included everyone’s right to survive. This was so for almost all TV channels and newspapers in Sri Lanka. Though they criticized government for a certain extent they remained within certain extents (so-called self restrictions) in order to survive. But the things changed when a local Sinhala weekly “Mavbima” (motherland) started to publish in last July. Without any fear they revealed the truth of corrupted government officials , and without any fear revealed the reality in war torn north and east , and harassments on innocent Tamil civilians by government troops.

                        Though this wetted anger of government and troops , they could do nothing , cos Mawbima was a famous weekly among people. The key issues that Mavbima revealed were

1.      Forcibly directing civilians in refugee camps who’d fled war to their hometowns , which were so-called cleared areas. This was an utter violation of UN convention of human rights , and it evoked a massive international pressure over the government. Though government responded positively , it did nothing to stop forcible migration.

2.      Corruption of government officials and their deals

3.      Status of humanity and human rights in Sri Lanka

Government accidentally got the chance , when a Tamil journalist Munusami Parameshwari , working in Mawbima , was arrested after interviewing another Tamil woman , who was suspected to be a suicide bomber. This aroused suspicion that Mavbima had links with terrorist.

            It’s not the fault of people , but of the racist rulers , who worked in spreading the desperate feeling among Sinhalese, that every arrested Tamil is a terrorist. Government and biased media of this fu__ed land also named the innocent girl as a tiger , and her fellow journalists in Mawbima as “Sinhalese Tigers”. This entirely distorted public picture of Mawbima and now it’s regarded as a pro-LTTE paper. Its accounts were sealed and it’s now not published due to lack of funds.

                        After detention for three months  without any charges , government couldn’t find at least a single motherfu__ing offence against 24 year old innocent girl , but the biased magistrate Kusala Sarojini at the magistrates’ courts, who has had a long history of giving judgments for government’s favor, extended detention Munusami Parameshwari after releasing

for another month , under fu__ed “Terrorism Prevention Act”. (By criticizing courts and bribers sitting on its high chairs calling themselves magistrates , I can be subjected to a two year imprisonment under offence of insulting the judiciary according to the motherfu__ing law of this country. I know that , but I don’t care , cos I have my weapon “the truth” , which I know is more powerful and more mighty than any court and any judge). At last , her lawyers filed a fundamental rights case against government , in supreme courts. She was ordered to be released immediately. Now , she’s released , but there are some idiotic sons of bitches who still charge her with terrorism.

            By that , it has been adequately proven that Mavbima paper or any of its partners has no connection with LTTE. But government still hasn’t released its bank accounts and the paper hasn’t been published for two weeks.

            By revealing these , I can be subjected to the same torture and harassment that Mavbima was subjected. I can be arrested , harassed , kidnapped or even killed. But I can’t be silenced. Here I’d like to finish by mentioning what comes in intro of famous Hollywood film “V for Vandetta”

            “I can’t recall his name. What’s important is idea, not the man. A man can fail , he can be arrested , tortured or even killed. But, four hundred hears later, his idea can still change the world”

            Pls comment.

-bkt.