We earlier mentioned that youth had died on that place itself but regime kept it as a sectret to avoid further embarassement and further international pressure for violating human rights. This youth who sustained injuries following the shooting by the police on the 30th was receiving treatment at the Ragama Hospital. According to Vasantha Samarasinghe, the secretary of the inter Company workers union speaking, the police firing had injured a testicle of this lad as a result. Also one of his legs had to be amputated. Regime which killed him in cold blood most cruelly took revenge on his relatives by not informing them of his death.Those behind this wicked murder should be revealed, and the person who gave orders for the shooting shall be exposed, Samarasinghe further said.
The murdered Roshan Chanaka is from Galoluwa, Minuwangoda and a worker in the S. S. Steel enterprise in the free trade zone. He had started work at this place 4 months ago. Oppostion said that this crime has been committed by the defense Secretary and the police and therefore enlisting the police to inquire into this is ridiculous and meaningless.
According to the police Commands Act, the maximum power the police has is to hit an individual below his knee with a baton , or shoot below the knee. That action can only be resorted to by the police in self defense and only in retaliation to an initial attack by the wrongdoer . In the circumstances , a human rights legal expert said that this action of the police clearly constitutes a diabolic murder. Hence deterrent and stern action should be taken against those behind this and the person who gave orders to kill human life should be arrested and the laws implemented duly.
