Abductions, an Intolerable Trend says Mano Ganesan
Three abductions of Tamil citizens of late have been reported to Civil Monitoring Commission. Two in the city of Colombo and one in Puttalam district, north of Colombo district.
This indicates the danger in which Tamils live irrespective of all the rhetoric statements and promises made to curb the menace of abductions in and outside the country. Situation is intolerable. We are prepared to cooperate constructively with anybody to bring the situation under control, but where the police and inquiry commissions are asks convener of Civil Monitoring Commission Mano Ganesan MP.
Abductions of three Tamils reported to Civil Monitoring Commission in two days said Ganesan. Johnson Vedamanickam (age 35) was abducted by armed men near Wellawatte branch of Hatton National Bank at Galle Road Colombo today (18 th June) morning at about 9-30am. Jhonson was taken away when he was walking to the bank from his business premises at Nelson Road junction Galle Road Wellawatte. Jhonson had cried through his mobile phone to his Father-in-Law Manoharan stating that he had been taken away by armed men and kept captive at an unknown location. Earlier on Saturday (June 16 th) advance level student Prasanth Sivagurunathan (age 18) at Rathmalana Hindu College, south of Colombo has been reported missing after he left home at Templer road Mt.Lavenia to Wellawatte for tuition classes in the morning. In another incident Mariyadas Amaladas (age 22) resident at school lane, Thillayadi, Puttalam has been reported missing on 4 th of June. Victim’s three-wheeler vehicle was found abounded in Tabbowa, Muriyankulam on June 7th. All three cases reported at respective police stations and at Civil Monitoring Commission.
Nobody seems to be in control. The police stations are just performing as information centers where they take your information and complaints on disappearances and do nothing. The investigative commissions are calling for complaints from general public for the last ten months but never release their findings and reports so that the criminals are charge sheeted. The activities of IIGEP are nowhere near beneficial to the common man and women who face the trends of abductions. The government is vehemently refusing to agree to the proposal for the international independent monitoring mission. This is reality faced by the Tamil people.
[Civil Monitoring Commission Press Release, Sri Lanka]
