Today - Rohingya Genocide Remembrance Day
My article about Rohingya
An what Sri Lanka can do
Release the detained Rohingya kids & adults, provide access to @Refugees & others
Job opportunities, healthcare, education, housing, food, include them in state’s social welfare schemes
Rohingya Genocide Remembrance and Sri Lanka by Ruki Fernando
Read the full article here:
groundviews.org/2026/08/25/r… #SriLanka #Governance #Rohingya
21 families of #NegomboPrison inmates have told @CPRPSRILANKA today they are still not informed fate & location of their loved ones transferred from #NegomboPrison, 5 days since incident. This is inhumane & illegal. Families have a right to know fate & location of detainees
#PrisonDept concealing fate, failing, refusing to disclose PRESENT location of transferred #NegomboPrison inmates maybe guilty of offense of enforced disappearance as per Enforced Disappearance Act 5 of 2018, wid upto 20yrs imprisonment & Rs 1.5 million @ompsrilanka @HRCSriLanka
#PrisonCrisis in #SriLanka: Special urgent protection is needed for #NegomboPrison inmates in judicial custody transferred to other prisons (e.g. Welikada, Angunukolapalessa, Pallekele), in face of systematic & horrific “revenge” torture (one death reported) since 06July night
Medical care for injured is urgent. Preservation of evidence is crucial, with reports of destruction of evidence & cover ups. Protection for inmates who are eyewitnesses from threats & harm also urgent, esp for those providing information to outside world from inside prisons
Visits to all prisons with #NegomboPrison inmates by Magistrates, MPs, 24 hr unrestricted access to @HRCSriLanka & special visits by lawyers, religious clergy, @UNSriLanka @ICRC etc. may help prevent more violations & escalations of tensions due to provocations caused by torture
Hearing of horrific torture inflicted by prison officials on #NegomboPrison inmates transferred to #AngunakolapelessaPrison & #WelikadaPrison. Warnings by #CPRP (Committee for Protecting Rights of Prisoners) appear to be unheeded @HRCSriLanka @anuradisanayake @UNSriLanka
#CPRP (Committee for Protecting Rights of Prisoners) warns of risks to life & torture of 5 inmates in #NegomboPrison #SriLanka, Names one. Says they have been separated from others and hidden. Calls on Prison Dept & Ministry of Justice to protect their lives - 06July evening
#SureshSallay has been accused of torture, denying medical treatment to detainees, threatening their families & also summoned to court in relation to murder of #LasanthaWickrematunge & Disappearance of #PrageethEkneligoda. As per @itjpsl No information about investigations
Sri Lankan Police is notorious for torture, cruel, inhumane, degrading treatment, as found by Supreme Court judgements, @HRCSriLanka & testimonies of detainees. This must stop. No detainee incl #Sallay should be subjected to such treatment. Allegations must be investigated
#PTA is a terrible law, it should be repealed as per @anuradisanayake election promise. It should not be used to arrest, detain #Sallay, #Sankeethan, #NadunChinthaka (#HarakKata) or anyone. Using PTA undermines credibility of investigations, prosecutions & justice for aggrieved
#TamilGenocide is not new word in #lka
2022 North – East (Catholic) Bishops Council asked to honour May 18 in memory of those killed in the genocide perpetrated by (Sri Lankan) State & its military machinery
2015 Northern Provincial Council passed a resolution on #TamilGenocide
Important for Sinhalese such as #FrJudeKrishantha & others to listen to Tamil experiences, grievances, aspirations, dialog with compassion & sensitivity
Than rushing to condemn & complain against those like #FrJeevanthaPeiris who has done that for years
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President AKD @anuradisanayake (JVP leader) due to speak at #MayDay event in #NuwaraEliya tomorrow 01May. Below some meaningful things he could say (source: anonymous) that would give hope to historically oppressed #Malaiyaha community, who had contributed much to #lka economy
Not quite the "Island of Peace" @NewsfirstSL has been promoting during
#PeaceWalk #WalkForPeaceSriLanka ?
Especially when inmates under judicial custody in closed state institutions, with strict security protocols gets killed regularly & no one is held accountable.....
Jailer and Two Prison Guards Arrested Over Inmate’s Death at Magazine Prison
Details:english.newsfirst.lk/2026/04…
#NewsFirst #NewsFirstEnglish #SriLanka #Colombo #MagazinePrison #BorellaPolice #PrisonReform #InmateDeath #LawEnforcement #BreakingNews #JusticeSystem #News1st
#PeaceWalk #WalkForPeaceSriLanka
My reflections:
"Despite limitations so far, the walk has the potential to make a contribution towards a sustainable peace with justice through proactive, symbolic and substantial initiatives in Colombo, the seat of political and economic power"
Walk for Peace: The Uncertain Potential of a Significant Moment by Ruki Fernando
Read the full article here:
groundviews.org/2026/04/28/w… #SriLanka #Governance #peace
#EasterAttacks 7 yrs aft - things Govt cud do
1 Clarify exact no dead
2 Support for all affected (reparations)
3 Publish all reports
4 Remove Aruna Jayasekera from Deputy Minister of Defense
5 Facilitate fair, transparent trials
6 Investigate areas not adequately investigated
Si Lanka must investigate complaint against alleged Israeli / US war criminal by @HindRFoundation & consider arrest & prosecution based on evidence. He must be deported if in #lka. No Israeli soldiers should be allowed enter #lka @anuradisanayake @HMVijithaHerath @BimalRathnayake
🚨🇱🇰The #HindRajabFoundation has filed a complaint in Sri Lanka against Jake Burkons, an American/Israeli soldier in Israel’s 603rd Combat Engineering Battalion.
Evidence links him to controlled demolitions of civilian buildings in Khan Younis.
More info ⬇️
hindrajabfoundation.org/post…
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