As you might be aware, senior journalist and media person Namal Perera was assaulted yesterday evening on his way home from work at the Sri Lanka Press Institute. This comes as a severe blow to the media industry in Sri Lanka, and the freedom of expression of the Sri Lankan people. Namal is currently undergoing treatment under police protection at a private hospital. Daily Mirror carried the story as today’s lead.
A demonstration is organized tomorrow (2nd July) at 12:30pm, at the Colpetty Junction as protest for the continued war against the media in this country, and calling for increased safety and security for the country’s journalists, and for action to be taken against the perpetrators of these crimes. Too many of these things are going unsolved.
Please try to make it for the protest.
Natty, you wont like me saying this, but you are my friend, so I am.
Please leave it be, please.
Protesting isn’t going to change the price of eggs. As I grow older, unfortunately I do grow wiser to the ways of the world. The international community have their own problems to resolve and they don’t care. Or pressure would have come much earlier.
The only real time we have is when there is a election. It is up to us then to march, protest, and make ourselves heard. And most importantly cast our all important ballot.
And make informed choices.
Marching right now is not going to help anything but make us political pawns of a much deeper game that we will never quite understand or grasp.
So leave it, please.
Hey girl
I someohow like the old sandwich better…….
The mouldy sandwich has so many nice posts
are you okay?
ths new sandwich isn’t as nice to read as the old one……
not that it’s not interesting or anything but the old one was more “free” I thought…..