Thousands protest in Sri Lanka after youths die in police custody...

About 5,000 people took part in a funeral procession on Sunday at Angulana, a suburb south of Colombo, to protest against the brutal killing of two youth by police on August 13. The murders are the latest police atrocity in President Mahinda Rajapakse’s fraudulent “war against the underworld”.

M.B. Dinesh Tharanga Fernando, 22, and Dhanushka Udayanga Aponsu, 26, were arrested last Wednesday at about 10 p.m. by officers from the Angulana police post, after a woman complained that they had made a joke about her.

Damith Kumara told the Daily Mirror: “When they brought in the two youth I was in my cell. I could see more than five police officers kicking, punching and throwing things at them. Later the Police OIC [Officer in Charge] Newton of the Angulana Police came. They took them to the OIC’s room. I heard them being beaten by the belt and the OIC shouted to another police officer to bring him fire, then he was burning and beating them from time to time.” More...

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