Liberated East!

It is a tiny mud house in Kalmunai. It is night time. Men armed with pistols knock on the door. A woman answers. They force their way in. Walk in to a bedroom.Take turns to rape two young girls aged 18 and 16. The terrified girls cry but there is no one to protect them. Their mother watches helplessly as her daughters get tortured by thugs sponsored by the government of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka,tears pouring down her eyes. Later that night the armed men returned to this house and after assaulting the father and mother they abducted the 18 year old girl. They forced her into their white van and drove off while the rest of the family watched helplessly.

Sometimes I feel so depressed. I feel this mixture of anger, frustration and sheer helplessness. It is not a nice feeling. But that's how I feel after I read this story in the daily mirror.

Of course the mother tried reporting this to the police. You would expect them to take the details,put it in a file and forget about it right? Surprise! They are even more advanced now. They even refused to lodge her complaint.

This happened on the 10th of May the day of the Eastern Provincial Council Elections which President Mahinda Rajapakse's party won.

Pillayan and his gang know they can do whatever they want in the Tamil areas in the East. The government has given them a free hand there. They just have to stuff the ballot boxes whenever there is an election as they have done this time.

"..The results of the elections to the first Eastern Provincial Council show the people’s endorsement of the government’s policies of restoring democracy and normalcy to areas hitherto controlled by terrorists and the overall development programme already initiated in the Eastern Province..", said President Mahinda Rajapaksa in a statement following the successful conclusion of elections to the EPC.