July 25, 2005

The duly elected

Unlike many capital cities colombo is small and a disproportionate number of politicians live in Colombo (usually at state expense). So it's not uncommon for the electors to bump into the duly elected. Usually such encounters result in bruises and...
Posted by raditha at 3:08 AM

July 24, 2005

Ministers Police and Thugs

Ministers, Policemen and thugs they are all one and the same. Yesterday I wrote about how police brutality was captured on film. The other day I wrote about how ministers are also common thugs. Today's newspapers have a report about...
Posted by raditha at 3:01 AM

July 23, 2005

Police Brutality on TV

Over the past couple of decades the police have been rounding up all kinds of drug peddlers, murders and even small time thugs and giving them police uniforms. A gang of such uniformed thugs were seen in action on TV...
Posted by raditha at 1:29 PM

July 22, 2005

Windfall for crooked cops

Crooked cops (about 90% of the police force) are in for a windfall. The government has raised the fines for traffic offences. It's extremely unlikely that the government will see even a marginal increase in revenue. Most of the fines...
Posted by raditha at 2:24 AM

July 21, 2005

Legalized Bribery and Corruption?

The official salary of a minister is low, it's not much higher than the salary of a Member of Parliament. So why do people spend millions, engage in intimidation, thuggery, skulldugerry and sometimes even murder to become parliamentarians? Then why...
Posted by raditha at 9:19 AM

July 18, 2005

Terrorists and Cry Babies

The LTTE which entered into ceasefire agreement with the government of Sri Lankan around 3 years ago have been responsible for thousands for ceasefire violoations including killings. They have killed off hundreds of informants, dozens of soldiers and officers and...
Posted by raditha at 3:52 PM

July 13, 2005

Deposing Dictators and Cricket.

The people power protests that was organized by the opposition UNP was perfectly timed. If they had held it on monday the 11th, a large number of colombo's office workers would simply have taken the day off stretching their weekend....
Posted by raditha at 7:02 AM

July 12, 2005

True People Power

The JVP the former terrorist organization that was the government's coalition partner has a habit of organizing protests and demonstrations at the drop of a hat. Fortunately for them most of their supporters are active supporters and thus it's quite...
Posted by raditha at 11:05 PM

July 11, 2005

Getting Rid of Dictators.

The main opposition party the UNP has been asigned the role of safe guarding democracy in Sri Lanka. It's a role that they are ill equipped to handle. But finally they are organized themselves and taken to the street to...
Posted by raditha at 3:58 AM

July 9, 2005

Bombs in London

There has been a series of bomb explosions in London and as a sri lankan it's very easy to empathise with the people effect. When a bomb goes off in a city, it does a lot more damage than death...
Posted by raditha at 3:43 AM

July 7, 2005

The Billion Dollar Company

Today marks the day when the first billion dollar company makes it's way to the Colombo Stock Exchange. Dialog Telekom, undoubtly the best of the Sri Lankan telecoms and arguable one of the best in Asia opened their IPO today....
Posted by raditha at 3:33 AM

July 5, 2005

People Power

While shamelessly holding hands with the ruling party in the Western Provincial Council, the main opposition UNP has started a massive protest campaign in the southern province. And what a massive campaign it is! Almost everyone who has been effected...
Posted by raditha at 5:17 AM

July 1, 2005

The UNP Proves that it has no shame

Everyone knows that politicians are without shame but it's something very hard to prove. Everyone is innocent until proven guilty. In Sri Lanka if the police don't kill you while in detection (there were three such deaths last week) you...
Posted by raditha at 3:40 AM

 

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