Police Spokesman has become the government’s spokesman - JVP
March 17, 2014 04:15 pm
The Police Media Spokesman has turned into the government’s media spokesman, the JVP General Secretary, MP Tilvin Silva stated.
Speaking at a press conference held today (March 17) in
Battaramulla, he said that the government was connecting Geneva to everything
happening within the country.
MP Silva
compared the protest in Thunnane to that of the one in Rathupaswela where
residents had on numerous occasions appealed about their grievances upon deaf
ears. The situation had boiled over he explained and stated that the police had
responded to protests by way of violence.
He accused the
Police Spokesman of being a government mouthpiece and claimed that the
government was making an effort to link everything unfavourable to them within
the country to Geneva.
He also accused
the police of assaulting unarmed civilians while warning the police that if
they continue to lie what little faith the public has in them will be lost.
Silva said that
the JVP will not be frightened of the lies being said by the government and the
police department and would fight alongside the people in any of their justifiable
causes.
