{"id":47186,"date":"2012-07-05T19:23:34","date_gmt":"2012-07-05T19:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=47186"},"modified":"2012-07-07T23:05:55","modified_gmt":"2012-07-07T23:05:55","slug":"death-of-tamil-political-prisoner-political-and-civil-society-leaders-demand-an-impartial-enquiry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/death-of-tamil-political-prisoner-political-and-civil-society-leaders-demand-an-impartial-enquiry\/","title":{"rendered":"Death Of Tamil Political Prisoner: Political And Civil Society Leaders Demand An impartial enquiry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Colombo Telegraph &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A group of political and civil society leaders and activists, \u00a0assembled today in Colombo\u00a0\u00a0<strong>have\u00a0<\/strong>unanimously \u00a0decided to request an impartial enquiry \u00a0by an independent forensic analyst and a credible postmortem report \u00a0in respect of the cause of the death of <strong>Tamil political prisoner\u00a0<\/strong>Ganesan Nimalaruban. \u00a0We below produce their demanding letter to the President\u00a0<strong>Mahinda Rajapaksa.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/death-of-tamil-political-prisoner-political-and-civil-society-leaders-demand-an-impartial-enquiry\/prisoners_vavuniya_1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-47203\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-47203\" title=\"prisoners_vavuniya_1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/prisoners_vavuniya_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/prisoners_vavuniya_1.jpg 710w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/prisoners_vavuniya_1-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_47016\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/transferred-ltte-suspect-died-in-hospital\/vavuniya_prison01\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-47016\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47016\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-47016\" title=\"Vavuniya_prison01\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Vavuniya_prison01-300x257.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Vavuniya_prison01-300x257.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Vavuniya_prison01.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-47016\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A LTTE suspect, who was transferred from the Vavuniya prison to the Mahara prison following the turmoil at the Vavuniya prison, has died yesterday.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>HE Mahinda Rajapaksa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President<\/p>\n<p>Presidential Secretariat<\/p>\n<p>Colombo<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Your Excellency,<\/p>\n<p><strong>Death of Tamil political prisoner\u00a0<em>Ganesan Nimalaruban<\/em>\u00a0at the Mahara remand prison<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We the undersigned, political and civil society leaders and activists, \u00a0assembled today in Colombo carefully analyzed the grave situation that has developed immediately after the death of the above named prisoner early yesterday, have unanimously decided to forward following demands to Your Excellency\u2019s immediate attention and anticipate positive response to ease the crisis:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The parents of deceased Ganesan Nimalaruban who had been brought to Colombo from Vavuniya by the police, should be freed from the police custody and allowed to have access to the lawyers they have retained<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0An impartial enquiry must be held by an independent forensic analyst and a credible postmortem report must be presented in respect of the cause of the death of Ganesan Nimalaruban \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The parents and family members should be allowed conduct a decent and religious burial for the dead prisoner at Nelungkulam, Vavuniya, the village of Ganesan Nimalaruban<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Your Excellency, we have been informed by the eye witnesses on the inhuman merciless attacks the deceased and his colleagues received in remand custody during the days following the Vavuniya incident on June, 29<sup>th<\/sup>. We also wish to bring to your notice that there are more inmates who have received serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Under these circumstances, we consider that the realization of above demands in the case of Ganesan Nimalaruban will help to ease the crisis situation which has arisen today and also grant little justice to the voiceless parents who have lost their only son.<\/p>\n<p>Yours truly,<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Nimalka Fernando, co-chairperson &#8211; Civil Monitoring Commission \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Siritunga Jayasuriya, leader \u2013 USP and co-chairperson &#8211; Civil Monitoring Commission<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mano Ganesan, leader \u2013 DPF and convener &#8211; Civil Monitoring Commission<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>R. Sampanthan MP, leader &#8211; TNA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Suresh Premachandran MP &#8211; TNA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Selvam Adaikalanathan MP &#8211; TNA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pon Selavarasa MP \u2013 TNA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>E. Saravanabawan MP \u2013 TNA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>N. S. Ananthan MP- TNA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A. Ariyanenthiran MP \u2013 TNA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>D. Sitharthan, president \u2013DPLF<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>S. Kajendran, general secretary &#8211; TNPF \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>05<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0July, 2012, Colombo<\/p>\n<p>Related posts;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/transferred-ltte-suspect-died-in-hospital\/\">Transferred LTTE Suspect Died In Hospital<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":47203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,2375],"tags":[2856,2859,2858,2860,2861,2857],"class_list":["post-47186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-stories","tag-death-of-tamil-political-prisoner-news","tag-death-of-tamil-political-prisoner-vavuniya-photos-pictures-news-latest","tag-ganesan-nimalaruban-tamil-prisoner-latest-news","tag-mahara-jail-death-news-latest","tag-mahara-prison-death-news","tag-vavuniya-prison-attack-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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