{"id":145063,"date":"2015-05-24T00:10:29","date_gmt":"2015-05-23T18:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=145063"},"modified":"2015-06-01T00:40:55","modified_gmt":"2015-05-31T19:10:55","slug":"what-happened-in-jaffna-should-not-stay-in-jaffna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/what-happened-in-jaffna-should-not-stay-in-jaffna\/","title":{"rendered":"What Happened In Jaffna Should Not Stay In Jaffna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Yudhanjaya+Wijeratne&amp;x=16&amp;y=2\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Yudhanjaya Wijeratne<\/span><\/a> &#8211;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_141960\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Yudhanjaya-Wijeratne.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-141960\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-141960\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Yudhanjaya-Wijeratne-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Yudhanjaya Wijeratne\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Yudhanjaya-Wijeratne-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Yudhanjaya-Wijeratne-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-141960\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yudhanjaya Wijeratne<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">\u201cThe fighting\u2019s started in Jaffna again,\u201d said the woman at the shop.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I knew the incident she was speaking of: a hartal, a protest of sorts; police tear-gassing the crowd; a hundred and thirty people arrested; a lot of top brass in Jaffna being transferred away. The woman went on to discuss the Jaffna problem at length with her customer. Then, at some point in the conversation, they touched on the root of everything that had happened:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll because of what happened to that girl, neh? Aney pau. No one should have to suffer like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The incidents that happened over the last ten days in Jaffna have been ethnicized, politicized and (if you read the newspaper reports) possibly lobotomized as well. Let\u2019s review what we know, minus the political accusations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>S. Vidhya, 18 years of age, did not show up for school on the 13th of May. Nobody raised the alarm until school was over, and when they did, the police assumed she had eloped. The next morning, she was found, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Rape+%26+Murder+Of+School+Girl+in+Jaffna&amp;x=15&amp;y=3\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">raped and tortured and tied up inside<\/span><\/a> an abandoned house.<\/li>\n<li>The suspects were a local gang, including a Swiss national of Tamil descent. Locals say that they had a long history of crime to which the police turned a blind eye; police have not commented on this. Vidhya\u2019s rape was apparently recorded on their mobile phones.<\/li>\n<li>The suspects were arrested.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Jaffna-rape.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-145064\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Jaffna-rape.jpg\" alt=\"Jaffna rape\" width=\"640\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Jaffna-rape.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Jaffna-rape-300x158.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">*Villagers attempted to assault the suspects while they were being transported to the Police station. The police used a Navy transport to take the suspects into custody.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">The suspects were NOT brought to court.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Shit hit the fan. Protesters surrounded the courthouse and threw stones at it. The police responded with tear gas and the arrests of 127 protesters. Five police people were arrested.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is not a \u201cJaffna problem\u201d. It is a human problem. A girl was brutally raped. Her suspected killers were caught. They weren\u2019t tried like they should have been. But there are two sides to this coin.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Firstly, the people.<\/strong> Let\u2019s clarify something: 200-odd protesters acting on a clear breakdown of justice are not Jaffna. They\u2019re not an ethnic or political group. (If that were the case, our annual university protests would be tantamount to armed rebellion).<\/p>\n<p>To be honest, we don\u2019t know what the police did under the previous regime. We know that the suspects, back then, enjoyed tremendous influence. We believe that the police were, and possibly still are, corrupt.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, people feared that the suspects would be let off the hook again. Out of fear, anger was born. Out of anger, hatred. Protests. Clashes. Conflict. I\u2019m neither for nor against the police on this issue, but consider the facts.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s sad that people are using this to call for public stoning and all manner of other gruesome punishments \u2013 cures administered to a dead body will not make it live again. It\u2019s even sadder that the media seem to be focusing on the protests rather than the reason behind them, which is . . . rape.<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka does not talk about rape. It\u2019s indiscreet. Women are raped all over this country, and if you believe the stats Powerpoint\u2019d by every starry-eyed activists, one in ten men are rapists. We don\u2019t talk about these problems. They\u2019re hushed over. Pictures aren\u2019t displayed. Names aren\u2019t discussed. Polite people do not think of these things; they just go on willingly blind until one of their own gets raped. Monks get fired up about women wearing short skirts to temples and children not respecting their parents, but something as heinous as rape? Oh no, not here. We\u2019re like a bunch of ostriches with our heads stuck in the sand.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of this social and cultural blindness, we also end up with a civic and legal blindness that tries to avoid these issues and move on to the next case. Sometimes the only thing that can pierce this veil is a shout and a clenched fist and a stone thrown in the right direction.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Now the police.<\/strong> Are the police worried? Yes, they are.<\/p>\n<p>A policeman has a double duty: to protect both the citizenry and the criminals under his care. It\u2019s not a pleasant job. You\u2019re asked to be a line in the sand \u2013 a human shield with the thugs, murders and rapists on one side of you and the innocents on the other. Sometimes the line is clear \u2013 the thugs are out there and it\u2019s your job to stand up for the weak. But once you make an arrest, the tables change. You\u2019re told to stand and protect those who have murdered, looted, raped. You\u2019re asked to be their defense against the mob.<\/p>\n<p>What do you do, stand aside and let Everyman tear your charges from limb to limb? To wait as that inevitably escalates \u2013 as it surely must \u2013 into the total breakdown of law and order?<\/p>\n<p>The irony is that at this point, it doesn\u2019t really matter if you were a good cop or a bad cop. The duty requires that you protect those in your custody and not let something like, say, an angry mob rip them apart. It is easy for us to sit in our armchairs and write open letters and condemn people, but the cause-and-effect chain is apparent. Remember that at the end of the day it\u2019s not the corrupt top cops and bigwigs under the firing line \u2013 it\u2019s the constable told to shut the fuck up and get his riot shield and get the fuck out there.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What will solve this? Not an inquiry or a protest, or two, or two hundred.<\/strong> What will quell the protests is when all of Sri Lanka justly protests the rape of any woman, of all women: not as a mob, not as citizens and police, but as a society swiftly moving to set a process into action. What will prevent this from ever happening again is when <em>each and every one of us understand rape for the horrifying crime it is and demand justice in every instance.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Because, you see, this system is not the police: it is not the government alone. We are a part of this system. We \u2013 you and I and that woman in the shop and all the other souls in this country \u2013 are the largest part of this system. <strong>We cannot just demonize the policemen and pin all the blame on them. This blood is on our hands, too. When a rapist knows with absolute certainty that every man, woman and child will be against them; when they know there is no door, no stone, no tree, no bush for them to hide behind \u2013 that is when this problem stops. Not before.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d like to point out that good things are coming out of this incident. Sri Lanka is reacting to this \u2013 not as Jaffna, or as Hambantota, but as a country unified in its disgust and horror. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Wijeyadasa+Rajapakshe&amp;x=11&amp;y=5\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Wijedasa Rajapakshe<\/span><\/a> publicly shamed a racist media person. In this incident, we\u2019re not Tamil, Muslim or Sinhala, but simply human.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Dead Shot from Wijedasa Rajapakshe to Racist Media Person!!#lka #jaffna<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Posted by Srilankan Unity on Friday, May 22, 2015<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HfTeplRcvoU\" width=\"634\" height=\"357\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Small victories, but victories nonetheless.<\/p>\n<p>So talk. Talk about rape. Break the ice. Bring it into conversations. Break the dogmas that let rapes go unreported and unpunished. Let the idea spread \u2013 not through stones, but through minds. Society is a system of ideas enforced by action. To change the system, change the ideas.<\/p>\n<p><em>*Yudhanjaya Wijeratne is a contributor to Colombo Telegraph, his articles can be found on his blog, icaruswept.com<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":141960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,46,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-constitutional-reforms","category-editorial"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What Happened In Jaffna Should Not Stay In Jaffna - Colombo Telegraph<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/what-happened-in-jaffna-should-not-stay-in-jaffna\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What Happened In Jaffna Should Not Stay In Jaffna - 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