Socialist Party of Sri Lanka
On September 13, an angry mob attacked the workers‘ settlement in a rubber plantation in Kukuleganga in the Ratnapura district of Sri Lanka. By the time they had moved on, almost the entire village had been reduced to ruins, leaving 180 men, women and children homeless.
Not content with this destruction, the attackers also drove off all the domestic animals and stole the workers‘ household goods and the tools of their trade. Over a month later, not a word of this outrage has appeared in the press. There have been no questions in Parliament, there has been no ministerial statement, there has been no police investigation. The reason for this public silence is as simple as it is outrageous; the attackers were Sinhalese, the victims, Tamils. Although the villagers appealed to the main plantation workers‘ union, the Ceylon Workers‘ Congress, no action was taken.
A Tamil boy in the ruins of his home