RT @indica: new blog post: Deadly Prison Riot In Welikade http://t.co/FluEXAtK

RT @indica: new blog post: Deadly Prison Riot In Welikade http://t.co/FluEXAtK

@indica the STF is a paramilitary unit under the direct command of the Sri Lanka Police. Nothing to do with the SL Army @himalkk

@drac Probably an oversight on his part. @indica

RT @indica: new blog post: Deadly Prison Riot In Welikade http://t.co/FluEXAtK

@himalkk heh, it wasn’t censure at all. I speculate it might matter here, because the Army/Commandos play by different rules @indica

RT @indica: new blog post: Deadly Prison Riot In Welikade http://t.co/FluEXAtK

The Special task Force (STF) is not an Army/police unit. It is a purely police special operations/paramilitary unit.

GTA: Welikada.

BBC reports 27 dead. Apparently prisoners got out of hand during a surprise raid/ mobile-phone-hunt and got into the prison armory. How shit like that happened is beyond me.

Just in case anyone of The Club of Morons, or Caresek (who isn’t a member of the club) is paying attention, this kind of thing only reinforces my belief in death penalty.

Seriously, the solution to prison riots is killing prisoners? That’s kinda what happened, and it’s not a good thing.

Calling for the death penalty is the lazy resort when you don’t really want to think about the specific problem at hand.

The solution to convicted drug traffickers, rapists, child abusers, murderers is the death penalty. In this case it’s pretty obvious that getting locked up hardly helped civilize the prisoners

To tame a savage, primitive people (like Sri Lankans in general) you need harsh laws.

@tastyjujubes

How can I say this in the least offensive way? Let me try.

Don’t reply to me when you want to agree with me. Do it only when you disagree. It makes me look bad when a moron agrees with me.

@indi

So you don’t think that the fact that Kalu Thushara is dead is good thing? Well then you are probably a saint, and I respect that. But don’t expect me to agree with you because I am not a saint.

I am genuinely happy that Kalu Thushara is dead. I think the way it happened is bad, for obvious reasons. But the fact that he’s dead, taken in isolation, is a good thing. It’s good for the taxpayers. It’s good for the society in general. I bet those who were the victims of his cruelty would feel that justice has finally been done.

As I’ve said previously, laws should be about justice. Those who murder and rape should be punished with something equally severe for laws to work.

Other than that, what exactly are the specifics of the problem? We have situation where the number of prisoners is growing continuously. It’s important that people keep this in mind. The number of prisoners is going up. It isn’t going down, and it doesn’t stay at the same level. We have a government that is buried in debt. We have defense spendings that are not going to go down for a long time. The salaries of the soldiers themselves take a large portion of money out. We have a global economic crisis going on. We have Greece that is very close to go down, along with the rest of Europe. We have China with its GDP growth rate slowing down. So we really can’t afford spend a dime more on the prison system. None of this would’ve happened if the prison was run the way it is supposed to. But we can’t run them the way they are supposed to.

In the meanwhile, we have serious crimes going on. I don’t have exact statistics, but I bet the crime rate has gone up during and after the war than it was before the war. We have restless youths with military training doing worse things than cat calling. Perhaps since you definitely don’t belong to lower class or lower middle class, you can afford to be detached from this whole thing and think the death of Kalu Thushara isn’t a good thing. But rampant lawlessness is there in this country and people suffer because of it. So something needs to be done fast, as effitiently and inexpensively as possible. The only way to do it is to crack down on the underworld as hard as possible. We need to squash them. Many Western liberal democracies did just that before they became what they are now.

So you mean we have to kill the prisoners because we cant maintain them?

@sach

One reason among many. The main reason, for me, is that I believe people like Kalu Thushara deserve to die for their crimes.

They should have brought in snipers right from the start. If they placed a section on the Wesley College roof, each sniper could have dropped five guys before they got to cover. Woulda cleared the prison roof in a minute. Then they could have choppered in commandos in an air assault. It would have been all over in an hour.

And plus, you can clearly see the incompetency and the unfamiliarity of the prison authorities (including guards) regarding this kind of situation.