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Undergraduate activists’ deaths an accident or staged?
View(s):A little more than two-and-a-half-years have gone since two ill-fated undergraduate activists of the Inter-University Students’ Federation (IUSF), met with a motorbike accident that ended their lives in Imbulgoda, Gampaha.
The IUSF declared the two deaths suspicious. Public interest was also raised as there were reasons for suspicion, because they were on their way to organise an undergraduates’ march from Kandy to Colombo.
Despite the furor and the public interest, police investigations however, led nowhere.
The only outcome was that the two youths, Janaka Bandara Ekanayake of the Kelaniya University’s Arts Faculty and Sisitha Priyankara de Silva of the Ruhuna University’s Faculty of Management, were hailed as icons of a struggle, albeit for a short time.
Given the circumstances of a new government trying to right old wrongs, it is imperative to look into whether these two young lives were snatched by accident or by design. It is just as important as any other unfortunate incident, for the two deaths, undoubtedly, caused much grief and ended many hopes.
