Sri Lankan Police deployed a mobile CCTV van around the mass protest organised by the opposition parties. The mass protest march and demonstration is organised against state oppression, social degradation and corruption and to push for the abolishment of the Executive Presidential system. A picture captured by journalist Dinidu de Alwis shows a mobile CCTV van to record footage of anti-government protesters in Slave Island. Image courtesy Twitter / @dinidu
MirakRajBanda / January 28, 2014
This to pick the individuals once the ralley is over…..
Very shroud and ruthless state terrorism!!! Nothing I can say.
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Ben Hurling / January 28, 2014
Send Gota a copy of Animal Farm by Orwell.
Cheers!
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John / January 28, 2014
This picture shows MR Regime is fast losing grip on power.
Cost of living is sky rocketing due to corruption, waste & bad governance.
Days are numbered.
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Don Stanley / January 29, 2014
Lalith Weeratunge’s THREAT to the international community that there will be CHAOS in Lanka if there is a war crimes trial of Mahinda Jarapassa is nothing but nonsense.
Most Sri lankans are heartily sick of the CORRUPT, CRIMINAL and UNEDUCATED Jarapassa Family and cronies dictatorship and would be happy to see them all frog marched to the Hague. It is only once Sri Lanka is liberated from the Mahinda Rajapaksa regime that the country which is till under the curse of KUVENI will be liberated – now that the barbaric LTTE is finished, we need to finish off this regime – and the easiest and CLEANEST way would be to send the Jarapassa brothers and their war criminal friends to the Hague!
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Spring Koha / January 29, 2014
Most sinister; why is the van identity only in English?
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punchinilame / January 28, 2014
Can not this kind of filming be jammed electronically by those
interested – action needs reaction?
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kapu / January 28, 2014
Looks like the myth of the ‘white Van ‘ is finally being proved very very true .!
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Dev / January 28, 2014
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3572/3559003703_e4ee78d298.jpg
More state terror LOL
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nimal dunuhinga / January 28, 2014
Who collects the scattered flowers?
[“The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies.”]-William Faulkner quotes (American short-story Writer and Novelist, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949, 1897-1962)
When you eat a Shark-fin soup
sitting on a Chinese rooftop Restaurant
did you see that
ragged orphan boy
at the World’s end
drinks muddy water
and his sister just attended the age
‘Puberty’ on the road?
Her slim body she looks in a broken mirror
that covered with a torn cloth
a city political banner?
Be careful my sibling!
The handsome politicians’
boisterous sons fly on the streets
with their shiny Limousines
who’re greedy for fresh flowers
like their gentle fathers?
To the novelist Ru Freeman for her new book ‘On Sal Mal Lane’!
[On this road live the middle class and dirt poor; youth vivacious with talent, or misshapen by abuse.A looming civil war threatens to engulf the multiethnic Sri Lankan street of Ru Freeman’s novel.]-Cristina Garcia
nimal
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RajasH / January 28, 2014
In the western world local councils use cctv camera hoisted on parking wardens cars. They drive around and film parking offenders.
In the wonder of asia they improvise and use ot to catch political offenders.
Sri Lanka the Wonder of Asia
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Sandy / January 29, 2014
‘ Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming upon you. Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes.Your gold and silver are corroded.Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire.You have hoarded wealth in the last days.Look! the wages you have failed to pay the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you.The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty. You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence.You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter.You have condemned and murdered innocent men who were not opposing you.’ (Warning To Rich Oppressors.Holy Bible.James. ch.5.1-6)
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BBS Rep / January 29, 2014
On this issue I beg to differ with everyone.
State security machinary all over the world do this kind of thing. But they are not so crude as the Sri Lankans, especially filming from white vans – given the horrible legacy of whitevanning in Sri Lanka.
The US and Israel are the pastmasters in this kind of game. I am told that recently in a ducumentary aired in Australia any person anywhere taking part in any protest in Australia was secretly filmed, their telephones bugged and a secret dossier maintained.
The irony of it all is governments never trust the citizens who vote them into office.
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Sam / January 29, 2014
Except, the western world’s governments do not ‘whitevan’ dissenters into oblivion!
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Palmsquirrell / January 29, 2014
It is true that so called enlightened democracies do spy, snoop and even infiltrate protest movements but they aren’t into torturing and disappering person like GOSL. So this snooping by GOSL has an aspect to it that is not present in the West.
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Deshabandhu / January 29, 2014
This image proves a valid point.
In Sri Lanka descent to the oppressive rule is not tolerated, but the regime says to the outside world there is everything in this country (freedom of speech, thought and demonstrating once political will in democratic means). But all this is there only on paper and not in practice.
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Justice Lanka / January 29, 2014
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.
George Orwell
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ravi / January 30, 2014
The Singhalese will also be destroyed and killed by the govt, just as they did to the tamils. Just vote and wait for it to happen..
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Rajini Kulatunga / February 2, 2014
Most of the comments made to this news item make me laugh. Hey guys what is so special about it? I am sure some of you commenting to this article live in western countries. Aren’t such Surveillance been done by the police in countries like England, Germany France Canada etc.?
I have taken part in number of demonstrations in England, France and Germany and witnessed it myself how the police in these countries carryout such Surveillance during demonstrations.They even photograph individuals. Therefore I cannot understand why you guys make such a big Ha Hu when Sri Lankan police is doing such a thing.
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