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Posts tagged as “chilling”

Police Abuse in Colombo versus ‘Reconciliation’ in the North?

by Kishaki Pinto Jayawardene in The Sunday Times, July 30, 2023The ‘arrest’ of a young journalist, Tharindu Uduwaragedera recorded by onlookers this Friday being forcibly dragged out of a three wheeler, grabbed by his hair and roughly manhandled by a posse of police officers before being whisked away in a police vehicle, is a chilling warning to Sri Lanka’s dissenters. Savages in uniform violating the law The question here is not whether one agrees with…