An Open Letter To The Prisoner Number 22032

"You will be more remembered as a hero of your people, far more than at any other time in your life, if you take up this great cause against the fundamental injustice inherent in our “Justice System". You may be able to tell the Supreme Courts of Sri Lanka and all the other judges about the great lie we propagate in the name of justice."

Dear Mr. Sarath Fonseka,

[October 02, 2010]

[Colombo - New Delhi -London-Washington] 
[Sri Lanka Guardian]

Now that you are in jail, you could be a great service still to the people of our country by observing and noting the conditions of prisoners. Our prisons are in wretched condition and people are treated in a subhuman manner. This disgraceful treatment of fellow human beings needs to be stopped. With your kind of stamina applied to this task, you will be able to highlight this enormous tragedy of our people.

From your own experiences you know that many people are brought to jail unjustly. Some enemy or some petty police officer can fabricate charges and thereafter a man is doomed for many years of a wretched life. For many of them that marks the end of their life as when they return there will be more and more fabricated charges. Our justice system has failed. Due process remains an illusion. Cruelty to fellow citizens is the order of the day. Many poor people have no money to pay lawyers. The lawyers are often unable to help anyway.

Now you have a chance to observe all this with your own eyes. You pride yourself in saying that you fought for the freedom of your fellow citizens. Do the fellow citizens have freedom? With compassionate eyes look at the terrible lie about the conditions of our collective existence. A few abuse power and the rest live in wretched and subhuman conditions.

You will be more remembered as a hero of your people, far more than at any other time in your life, if you take up this great cause against the fundamental injustice inherent in our “Justice System". You may be able to tell the Supreme Courts of Sri Lanka and all the other judges about the great lie we propagate in the name of justice.

The injustice you have suffered can be turned into an opportunity to expose the very heart of darkness that exists in our country. We wish you well, and we will make use of your presence in the prison in order to think about the conditions of all others.

Thank you.
Sri Lanka Guardian

www.srilankaguardian.org

www.lankaguardian.com

You may writes similar letters to him at :-

Mr. Sarath Fonseka,
The Prisoner Number 0/22032,
Ward 'S ',
The Prison Commissioner c/o,
Welikada Prison,
Baseline Road,
Colombo 08, SRI LANKA

Some ways to nurture love of freedom in Sri Lanka

There are political prisoners and persons unjustly held in prisons. Some are well-known names and others are not. Many are very poor persons who continue to suffer as there is no one to talk about them.


A few things can be learned from other countries to fight for such persons and to nurture and improve love of freedom in Sri Lanka.


Here are a few suggestions:


1. Forgo a meal once a week as a protest for one or more of such persons, or on behalf of all such prisoners. Many people will soon follow your example.


2. Keep a photo or any other symbol on your dining table to be a permanent remembrance of such persons.


3. If you are more committed, do as the Mothers of Plaza De Mayo, of Argentina, who met every week in Plaza De Mayo, exhibiting the photos of their disappeared children. This soon gave rise to a vast movement of protest.


4. Find other ways of doing something.


Whatever you do, however small, will help to create and to improve the love for freedom.