12th April
2019
To
DIG, Northern
Province
Through
SP Jaffna District
Police Headquarters
Jaffna
Dear sir / madam,
We wish bring to your kind notice
of a situation developing in Jaffna which will create a bad law and order
situation towards disturbing the peace, tranquility and inter faith
relationships. Please see copy of poster below.
The proposed Christian missionary
conversion oriented meetings scheduled for 15, 16, 17 in Jaffna Municipal Land adjacent
to the Jaffna Police Station violates Section 3 of the ICCPR Act of 2007 which says:
(1) No person shall propagate war
or advocate national, racial or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to
discrimination, hostility or violence.
(2) Every person who— (a) attempts
to commit; (b) aids or abets in the commission of; or (c) threatens to commit,
an offence referred to in subsection (1), shall be guilty of an offence under
this Act.
(3) A person found guilty of
committing an offence under subsection (1) or subsection (2) of this section
shall on conviction by the High Court, be punished with rigorous imprisonment
for a term not exceeding ten years.
(4) An offence under this section
shall be cognizable and non-bailable, and no person suspected or accused of
such an offence shall be enlarged on bail, except by the High Court in
exceptional circumstances.
Also it come under Section 2(1)(h) of the
Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) which says:
..by words either
spoken or intended to be read or by signs or by visible representations or
otherwise causes or intends to cause commission of acts of violence or
religious, racial or communal disharmony or feelings of ill-will or hostility
between different communities or racial or religious groups;
The Penal Code of Sri Lanka contains sections 290-292 (offenses relating to the
religions), which along with other similar provisions contain set of offenses
relating to religion including uttering words with deliberate intention to
injure religious feeling. The sections 291A and 291B are significant as they
deal with hate acts.
LLRC recommendations on promoting religious harmony and co-existence,
call for establishing a mechanism in consultation with inter-faith groups that
can serve as an early warning and diffusing system of potential religious
tension.
These violations are committed by persons coming
from India. They are coming here on tourist visas and dabbling in local
politics attempting to divide the community on religious basis. They are
speaking at public meetings which are not permissible under visa conditions for
tourists.
The names of those tourists
who are violating the conditions of visa are, Mohan C Lazarus, Vincent
Selvakumar and John Balakumar.
The funds towards conducting these meetings flow from
abroad.
Foreign money is coming into Sri Lanka. Foreigners are
coming into Sri Lanka. The only purpose is to convert innocent Hindus to
Christianity. They will be violating the laws of the land viz: Section 3 of the
ICCPR Act of 2007; Section 2(1)(h) of the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA);
The Penal Code of Sri Lanka and grossly violating LLRC recommendations on
promoting religious harmony and co-existence.
We Hindus object to the conducting of this meeting. We
request you to cancel these meetings to avoid the law and order situation
towards disturbing the peace, tranquility and inter faith relationships.
Thanking you
We remain
On behalf of the Hindus of the
Northern Province
1. Maravanpulavu K.
Sachithananthan, +94772754864, tamilnool@gmail.com, Maravanpulavu,
Chavakachcheri
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