Highlights!
I escaped from daylight round up of university students in 1971 in Peradeniya University Under Sirima.
The
army guy who headed the round up operation happened to be from my
college (contemporary but not one of my class mates).
None
from the Arunachelum Hall of Residence was taken out.
I
do not claim any credits.
The
JVP, had placed improvised bombs on top of our room’s ceiling, I
was told by the said lieutenant.
What
happened to the undergraduates, from other halls of residence, I
still do not know.
None
of my class mates, most of whom are living healthily even today had
any lineage to extreme ideas.
They
are/were all over the world and in Ceylon.
This
is true of my batch mates (most of them Tamils, none Muslim except
one guy from Malaysia; lost contact with him after graduation) of the
Medical Faculty.
We
had a grand get together in India in 2009 (I did not attend) and in
2018 in Kandy.
There
is guy in my batch who can organize a get together on the drop of a
hat (mostly out of his own pocket).
Mind
you he was a professor (field withheld).
Then, polishing a bottle of V.S.O.A or Gin and tonic was our pastime, and
some are veterans in that sport.
He
was here recently but I advised him to take the flight back before
the election.
In
1983 I was abroad when ethnic bashing was unleashed by UNP.I was here in 1984 briefly and went back.
I was here in 1984 clearing my unaccompanied luggage at the naval port when J.R.J. was having a putative referendum with a Muttiya (a pot).
Fast track to 1989, I was Number Three on the D.J.V.P’s hit list and I saw the dead bodies dumped in Digana.
The vegetable vender who sold his last stock of vegetables to me was killed by “Deshapremies”.
His neck was cut on the back and he bled to death.
Mahaveli Security did not let him into my clinic a walking distance from his home in spite of repeated requests.
With few stitches, I could have saved him.
There were no electricity, I had a generator in my clinic and stocked all ice creams of the neighboring boutiques and dished out ice creams free to kids who came to the clinic.
Tea was free on my account and I had cartoons of milk on stock.
I bought all the milk cartoons preempting D.J.V.Ps blackouts.
A little girl (my favorite kid) died in her father’s (DJVPs blackouts) lap asking to be taken to me.
A little Muslim girl who had over 70% burns was under my care and I saved her.
A kid with appendicitis (a foreigner) was transferred to Kandy in our car (no ambulances then).
This is my explanation for why I do not practice NOW.
I did my part when doctors were hiding or going abroad!
My name was Number Three (a JVP sympathizer told me) in the JVP hit list and I was asked to leave by one of my laborers.
I saw him few weeks later and never after that presumed killed.
When I was coming home alone, they were digging the road so that a vehicle could not pass (but I managed) and I stopped to have a peep of dead bodies dumped to the Mahaveli River.
There were no crocodiles then in Rajawella but they were transported from Mahiyangana and they slowly went back to Mahiyangana on their own accord.
Mid you Ceylon is a typical Buddhist country by deeds not by Buddha’s sayings.
Reproduction
The police arrest even the drivers of vehicles transporting cattle illegally.
Why didn’t they arrest the ‘white van driver’, who claimed to have taken humans to be fed to crocodiles?
It is a crime to aid and abet criminals.
Legal action should be taken against the government politicians who are shielding the ‘white van driver’.
Will the police explain why they have not arrested him and those who are giving him refuge?
