Matale - Bringing Up The Bodies And Politics Of JVP

I was reading Malinda Seneviratnes Blog post on the politics of excavating this so called mass grave in Matale. some say they were from a the turn of last century of victims of a epidemic and some say (this is more the JVP) its a mass grave containing bodies of persons killed during the 1988/1989 JVP reign of terror.

Either way, its being said that the Police and JMOs are doing a good job in conducting a through investigation and they have even called not only Forensic Scientists but also Archaeologists too!
good! bring up the bodies! parents of those who are buried need closure as Malinda has aptly said but what justice?

JVP member who survived the Eliyakandha Prison Camp in Matara during 88/89 told me few years ago, that the only parties to the atrocities who never changed sides were the Security Forces..the rest he said, were shamelessly cajoling each other for power so much so ,he added when he decided to write to the police whereabouts of a certain cache of illegally (and forcibly) collected documents and ID cards (and then forgotten) by the JVP ,to his horror ,realized that then area leader of the JVP (later on a local Councillor for the same party ) had decided to join the UNP against the ruling party while a key District level politician at the time of 88/89 who led vigilante group is now a leading ruling party member!

We lost so many young people during the 88/89 period, many to the JVP's killer gangs and then many more to Security Forces who were given a free reign and then, some more to private vigilante groups some say consisting members of Tamil armed groups but led by UNP regional leadership, who was then in power.It was a painful past and the families who lost their children and loved once need closer but more importantly they need justice...victims need justice.

And Justice is not whats on offer...we all know what JVP has turned out to be today... they are nothing different from the rest of the morally bankrupted Political parties...just that i wish the JVP keep quite about the bodies in Matale and let the course of justice take its own pace and not rather attempt to make political mileage out of it.