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A bride snatched away by the police
Saturday, 9 June 2007 - 12:25 AM SL Time |  | |
A young Tamil woman who was looking forward to getting married to her childhood sweetheart next Wednesday in Colombo, was among those evicted to the North yesterday.
Twenty-three-year old Dharshani Selvam had already booked the reception hall and was living with her aged mother Saraswathie awaiting the bridegroom`s arrival in Colombo on Sunday. The bridegroom was to return to the country from London where he works.
Darsahni and her mother lived in a Colombo lodge ever since they moved to the South from Karaveddi in Jaffna following the death of Dharshini`s father.
Yesterday`s predawn search operation shattered all the dreams of Darshani and her mother thus plunging their lives into uncertainty.
Speaking to the Daily Mirror the proprietor of the lodge who is an all island JP and a former Secretary of the Ceylon Teachers Congress - a trade union arm of the CWC - said that at around 4.00 a.m. yesterday a team of five police officers and three army personnel arrived at the lodge. They checked the 22 rooms in the lodge, questioned the inmates and left the place.
?They did not take a single inmate with them following the first raid.
The unexpected happened in the second raid an hour later. Five police officers claiming to be from the Wellawatte police returned to the lodge and took away seven females and five males from five families. Saraswathie and Dharshini were among those who were removed from the lodge by the police,? he said.
?What am I going to tell the bridegroom when he comes on Sunday. The mother and daughter have nowhere to go in Karaweddi as they had mortgaged their house and property to raise money for the wedding,? he said..
?Saraswathie even showed police officers the receipt of payment made to the owner of the wedding hall where the ceremony was to take place but the police paid no heed. I am worried about their future and safety mostly because the police have asked us not to entertain anymore inmates hereafter? he added.
He has to think about his family and his own future, the lodge owner said. Police had warned them not to give lodgings to anyone from the North and East.
?This has been our only means of living in fact. Several families there are dependent on the lodge income for their livelihood. Now we have been deprived of our only livelihood,? he lamented.
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However, owners of lodges and witnesses said even a kidney transplant patient was forced out of bed and bundled into a bus despite pleas by his wife that the man needed regular medication here.
The Tamils were not even allowed to change out of their night clothes or use toilets, witnesses said. Sri Lanka's main opposition said the move was similar to what Hitler did to the Jews in the early days in Germany.
Unfortunately we are living among the most ignorant regime in the world. I still don't think police initiated this move. This is what happens in a police state: police becomes puppets of politicians and lose their integrity.
Remember what happened to the last guy who came from Norway to get married? Knowing that if the bride made a decision to get married in Colombo and if that was not a valid decision and if this idiot thinks having a wedding and reception while GOSL bombs is reasonable. I really don't have words. |
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| Yes of course these orders came from the top, now the chief terror coward Mahinda is using the police as the scapegoat! |
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Yes of course these orders came from the top, now the chief terror coward Mahinda is using the police as the scapegoat!
exactly Revy,
This MR guy just pretend that he is not aware of anything. But you know what, every average intelligent person will understand that he is a big pathological lier.
Who is he trying to fool, only to himself.
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every average intelligent person
Who is he trying to fool, only to himself.
You really don't know the south do you? He is the president of the idiots the 'resident idiot'. |
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Saraswathie even showed police officers the receipt of payment made to the owner of the wedding hall where the ceremony was to take place but the police paid no heed.
what more you need to show the damn POLICE..isn't that enough proof to stay in Colombo..
As i said before this is just a revenge act cos they lost a lot of men in Vanni jungles after last week fight.. |
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Berty,
I don't think this is a revenge act for Vavuniya battle. If MR or the forces wanted a revenge on civilians they could have sent some fighter jets over Kilinochchi and bombed the city.
Also we didn't see any revenge act as you say after Muhamalai battle, did we? GOSL got a bloody nose after in that battle. So your claim looks like just trying to be a little tough on the government.
I also saw your response to the claymore discovery yesterday and you say it's done by army. Is it just to send some lodgers back to NE? But it doesn't make any sense to me.
I agree with you on the point that sending lodgers back to NE is really a foolish act. But based on a 3 claymore bombs placed by GOSL forces (as you claim) lacks enough suport to for that act.
Even if I don't support what GOSL did I have to consider that they are also not doing an easy job. Specially when they catch 1052kg C4 explosive laden truck bombs in governmnet areas. Berty that is not a joke.
By the way did you question the LTTE;s act to send all the Muslims out of Jaffna in 1990? May be you didn't but I do question what GOSL did today. |
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