Sunday, November 01, 2009
Sri Lanka outcry over police brutality
Sri Lanka's war ended in May but there has been an outcry against the police over brutal acts they are said to have committed. A focus for public anger is the impoverished village of Angulana, half an hour to the south of the capital, Colombo. Another such public anger area is Maligawatte, an old Muslim quarter of Colombo.
Complaints concern matters like extrajudicial killings and other serious brutality.
It is important to stress that this alleged police brutality is not near the former war zone and seems to be against anyone, particularly Muslims if a group has to be singled out. A few more details here, but Press censorship is still severe and breaching censorship rules can lead to imprisonment or death.
IMO: I have long held the view that either the Singhalese are basically very stupid and/or more likely their administration is. They only seem to have won the war with a lot of Chinese aid, and they were effectively Goliath against David and without Chinese help would still have lost. Now the Tamils are often held in concentration camps, where comparisons to a rather stupid Auschwitz situation is far from irrelevant. Obviously the West largely does not care and India is not in a position to act. Compared to the Allied win in WW2, this is a stupid and bad result and need not have happened. I do not necessarily know that the Singhalese are actual Nazis, they just seem to have behaved stupidly.
Complaints concern matters like extrajudicial killings and other serious brutality.
It is important to stress that this alleged police brutality is not near the former war zone and seems to be against anyone, particularly Muslims if a group has to be singled out. A few more details here, but Press censorship is still severe and breaching censorship rules can lead to imprisonment or death.
IMO: I have long held the view that either the Singhalese are basically very stupid and/or more likely their administration is. They only seem to have won the war with a lot of Chinese aid, and they were effectively Goliath against David and without Chinese help would still have lost. Now the Tamils are often held in concentration camps, where comparisons to a rather stupid Auschwitz situation is far from irrelevant. Obviously the West largely does not care and India is not in a position to act. Compared to the Allied win in WW2, this is a stupid and bad result and need not have happened. I do not necessarily know that the Singhalese are actual Nazis, they just seem to have behaved stupidly.
# posted by uv : 8:06 PM
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