Police blind to vehicles with garage number plates in Uva Activists charge that groups in unmarked vehicles and those with garage numbers are carrying out attacks on election campaigning offices in Moneragala. The following picture shows a Defender Jeep with a garage number plate parked in Kataragama around 5.10pm on Sep. 01. Meanwhile, The Campaign for Free & Fair Election (CaFFE) states that the election office of opposition leader of Buttala PS and United National Party (UNP) Moneragala district provincial council candidate Wijesinghe Herath Mudiyanselage Dharmasena has been attacked in the early hours of today (Sep. 02). The attack has completely destroyed the office. The CaFFE also states as follows : With this incident the number of attacked election offices of the opposition parties have reached 55. Although there are over 200 legal and illegal election offices of United Peoples Freedom Alliance (UPFA) in Moneragala, it is only the offices of UNP and Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) that have been attacked. Not a single person has been arrested in connection with the continuous election violence and violations in Moneragala and it is suspicious that not a single policemen is in the vicinity when these attacks are carried out. Meanwhile an election office of UNP chief ministerial candidate Harin Fernando at Nelumgama Badulla was attacked on the same day. Out of the 164 complaints 120 have been received from Moneragala district while 35 are from Badulla. Nine are common to both districts. it is suspicious that not a single policemen is in the vicinity when these attacks are carried out. (Pics - Defender Jeep with a garage number plate parked in Kataragama, destroyed offices of Dharmasena and Fernando.)
Posted on: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 07:22:44 +0000