රාවයට කරන ලද අනතුරු ඇගවීමක්ද

After a smoke bomb attack on Ravaya, the Media Minister condemned it and ordered an inquiry. The piece reads the attack as a warning linked to state media’s anti-Ravaya campaign and to government circles that see the paper as leading efforts to topple it, and recalls the attacks on Lasantha Wickrematunge and the murders of Rohana Kumara and Nimalarajan, after which similar promises produced nothing.

බියගැන්වීමේ දේශපාලනය

A severed head and hand from a corpse were delivered to the homes of UNP MP Ravi Karunanayake’s wife and mother, an evident warning to an active opposition politician. The piece notes that the police have not traced the body, likely taken from a morgue, recalls how political interference stalled the Rohana Kumara, Kumar Ponnambalam and Nimalarajan murder inquiries, and says intimidation is as brutal as killing and incompatible with democracy.