Sri Lanka’s Rape And Violence
Demon scene from Mulkirigala, tho I think these demons are actually women.
As Delhi fumes over the rape and now murder of ‘India’s Daughter’, Sri Lankans may feel like we’re somehow better off. However, India has the 6 suspects under arrest. Last year, around this time, a British national was brutally killed at a resort in Tangalle and his girlfriend beaten. It wasn’t rape, but it was egregious violence, in this case against tourists, and a year later the suspects are out on bail and reinstated to the ruling political party.
The Tangalle killing was brutal and animal, tourists shot and stabbed in a hotel, by a ruling party politician – Sampath Chandrapushpa Vidanapathirana – and his thugs. And now they’re out, with no sign that justice will ever be done. As Sri Lanka welcomes its millionth tourist, we should remember that just last year a couple was murdered poolside and nothing was done.
Kumbhakarna discussed this issue in the Daily Mirror. It’s worth a read.
Not to quote Ice Cube, but the Sri Lankan police are hardly beloved. A 
I just gave a talk at the University Of Sri Jayawardenapura along with Reeza Zarook of Anything.lk and Rohan Jayaweera of Google. These are my notes: Devin Jayasundara asked me for a subject for this talk and I told him Internet property. But I talked to my fiancé Shru and she had a better idea. Startups aren’t about creating property at all, not really. They’re about creating territory, about creating land.
I haven’t been blogging much, I know. It’s partly because we’ve been doing a lot of work on YAMU, especially shipping 1.0.1 of the Android app today. It’s on the 
I met an old-timer who said they used to drop acid and sleep atop Sigiriya, but the place has taken on a more commercial and quasi-spiritual role now. It was built by a king as a sort of retreat and used as a monastery. Now it’s a prime tourist and cultural destination. Hence it’s a bit odd to see a Japanese beer commercial shot up there. There’s a bunch of people eating, um, deep fried cream filled coconuts and then drinking some bracing beer. I hear the whole thing cost Rs. 25,000 (I’m presuming they used stock images).
Sri Lankans always demonstrate apathy when it comes to things that Indians would be out in numbers protesting about. Whether its a petrol hike, CoL, rape/murder by politicians, nepotism, corruption, etc. You name it. If it doesn’t directly impact us, then we just don’t care. Hence we have the govt. we deserve.
well said that is the unfortunate reality in this country.
Really? It took a lower caste man to rape an upper caste woman for protests to occur. Before that, no one gave a toss in India.
there had been many rape cases where high caste girls were raped by low caste men and vice versa. India is not a developed country and some may be punished and some may not. Delhi girl’s incident was not the only incident and there have been many since then. However people in india are more capable and brave to form a civil movement and direct its country on right path. We lack the organizational skill, awareness and most importantly the WILL to stand up for what we think is right in this country. May be because we have many jujubes in SL.
Btwn the Delhi gal who was raped was not a high caste gal but a daughter of farmer.
Well, the difference is that the cases (or perpetrators) in SL are all connected to high places.
Good article in the DM.
Actually the Indian case brought the families of the Sri Lankan victims onto the News Wires. They’ve got a campaign for justice going.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20869407
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20869406
Actually the Indian case brought the family of the Sri Lankan Victims onto the News Wires. They’ve launched a campaign for justice going.
incl footage on BBC with perps and pres.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20869407
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20869406