DEATH OF ROSHEN

ROSHEN’S DEATH COULD HAVE BEEN PREVENTED IF THE POLICE ALLOWED HIM TO BE TAKEN TO HOSPITAL WITHOUT ANY DELAY
The Katunayake FTZ demonstrations were responsible for the death of an innocent youth. The most important question to be asked is to find out the person who gave instructions to shoot. It is a subject to be debated. The IGP’s sudden decision to send his retirement papers is probably to reduce the anger of the public. This action is typical to what happens in Libiya. This message will be known to all countries in the world. This will be reported as another human rights violation.
The Katunayake FTZ worker Roshen is a native of Minuwangoda and hails from an innocent family. He is the 4th child in a family consisting of 5 children. He was shot for not taking part in a political or in an illegal demonstration.

AT THE TIME HE WAS SHOT THE POLICE PREVENTED HIM FROM TAKING HIM TO HOSPITAL QUICKLY.
The police had attacked those who tried to take injured Roshen to hospital. Injured Roshen was left alone with his injuries inside the vehicle. It was only later that he was taken for treatment to the Ragama Teaching Hospital .The hospital authorities and the Police post had been warned not to divulge information about Roshen to the media. The Police had forcibly asked to delete the pictures taken by the media cameramen. Some reporters from the island newspapers had even been arrested.


PRESIDENT HAD ORDERED ROSHEN TO BE TAKEN ABROAD FOR TREATMENT
It was revealed by Minister Anura Priyadarshana that President had given orders for Roshen to be taken abroad for medical treatment. But his serious condition did not permit it.

WAS THE NEWS OF HIS DEATH DELAYED PURPOSELY?
The news of the death of Roshen was not known to the media and the public until 8 p.m yesterday. It is learnt that his death occurred at 7 p.m. It was revealed by the Police media that he had died a few hours earlier.

RESIGNATION PAPERS TENDERED BY THE IGP

Although the IGP resigned on the grounds of the attack on the demonstrators, he was officially due to retire in just 2 months.

 During the CID investigations carried out 2 junior police officers were found guilty and were arrested. No one had given orders for them to fire. They only had powers to use tear gas and fire rubber bullets to disperse the demonstrators. It is been investigated whether a Senior DIG who received injuries may have given orders to fire. This unnecessary incident may not have occurred if this matter was well studied and discussed and passed by a Bill in the parliament.