{"id":90313,"date":"2013-06-06T00:28:30","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T18:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=90313"},"modified":"2013-06-06T00:28:30","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T18:58:30","slug":"friday-forum-wants-welikada-and-vavuniya-prison-riots-reports-make-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/friday-forum-wants-welikada-and-vavuniya-prison-riots-reports-make-public\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Forum Wants Welikada And Vavuniya Prison Riots Reports Make Public"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Friday Forum wants Minister of Rehabilitation and Prison Reforms\u00a0to make public the findings of the two Committees appointed to investigate the events that took place in the Welikada prison and\u00a0Vavuniya prison.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/friday-forum-wants-welikada-and-vavuniya-prison-riots-reports-make-public\/gajadeera\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-90315\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-90315\" title=\"Gajadeera\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Gajadeera.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"185\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>The <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Friday+Forum&amp;x=7&amp;y=5\">Friday Forum<\/a><\/span> today wrote to\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Chandrasiri+Gajadeera&amp;x=10&amp;y=1\">Chandrasiri Gajadeera<\/a><\/span>, the\u00a0Minister of Rehabilitation and Prison Reforms. On behalf of the Friday Forum former diplomat\u00a0Jayantha Dhanapala \u00a0and Professor. Savitri Goonesekere request\u00a0an appointment for\u00a0representatives of the\u00a0Friday Forum to\u00a0meet the minister in this regard.<\/p>\n<p>We publish below the letter in full;<\/p>\n<p>5<sup>th<\/sup> June 2013.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hon. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Chandrasiri Gajadeera<\/span><\/strong><strong>,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Minister of Rehabilitation and Prison Reforms,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ministry of Rehabilitation and Prison Reforms,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>35, N. M. Perera Mawatha,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Colombo 8.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dear Minister,<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">An Appeal for the Early Publication of the Reports on <\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">the\u00a0Welikada and Vavuniya Prison Riots<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This intervention is made in a spirit of democratic engagement by the Friday Forum, a group of concerned citizens who have come together to consider current issues of public interest with a view to making a contribution to peace, democracy, good governance and social justice in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>When persons in the custody of\u00a0a state institution meet with violent\u00a0death it is a matter of the widest public concern, well beyond the immediate one of the victims and their families.<\/p>\n<p>The Friday Forum wishes to urge you to make public the findings of the Committee appointed to investigate the events that took place in the Welikada prison, Colombo, in November 2012 resulting, inter alia,\u00a0in the death of some 27\u00a0inmates, with 43 inmates injured and 11 inmates reported escaped.<\/p>\n<p>The Friday Forum likewise urges you to make public the findings of the Committee appointed to investigate the events that took place in the Vavuniya prison, in June 2012 resulting, inter alia in the death of 2 inmates out of the 30 inmates reported as injured.<\/p>\n<p>We would be grateful if you would grant\u00a0an appointment for\u00a0representatives of the\u00a0Friday Forum to\u00a0meet you in this regard.<\/p>\n<p>Yours sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>Jayantha Dhanapala \u00a0and Professor. Savitri Goonesekere<\/p>\n<p>on behalf of the Friday Forum- the Group of Concerned Citizens<\/p>\n<p>cc. Secretary to the President.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":90315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Friday Forum Wants Welikada And Vavuniya Prison Riots Reports Make Public - 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\/friday-forum-wants-welikada-and-vavuniya-prison-riots-reports-make-public\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Friday Forum Wants Welikada And Vavuniya Prison Riots Reports Make Public - 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