JVP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake came out with a story this week that he says he hasn’t told anyone but has haunted him for years. Speaking at the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute Digital Media Academy in Colombo to a well-attended gathering who had come to witness a documentary film ‘S21′, Mr. Dissanayake said that he still hears gunshots that killed his virtual step-brother during the 1989 second JVP uprising. He said his mother and a known lady in the village (whose son it was) attended Bodhi-poojas for over 10 years hoping to see the young boy again, and various soothsayers would give leads to his possible whereabouts. But he had received a signal from the JVP that the young boy was shot and burnt on a ‘tyre-pyre’. Giving a preview of ‘S21′, the gruesome torture centre run by the notorious Pol Pot regime from 1975-1979 in Cambodia, the JVP leader said that at least there, those killed had a number and a photograph taken for identification. In Sri Lanka, both in the North and the South, thousands were buried, their identities and existence unknown. Dissanayake pointed out, that in the documentary; the victims get to meet the guards who tortured them in open daylight. Then, he went on to add his punch line. He said that we have in Sri Lanka a President who said that he would be six feet underground had his predecessor won the January 8 election. Such a would-be victim can meet with his would-be tormentor only in the dark. “When national leaders don’t have a conscience, the nation has no conscience,” he said. Read more Cafe stories
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