Demand CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FOR RAPISTS and Better Punishment for Sexual Offenders in Sri Lanka

  • by: Tilly J
  • recipient: The President and Prime Minister of Sri Lanka

"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”

For so many years now we have seen countless reports of sexual offense and harassment, the worst of which is rape. We've heard about it, we've seen it on the news and it only seems to be getting worse. The most recent incident, about a schoolgirl being gang raped in Pungaduthivu, Jaffna was horrific and should not be experienced by anyone, let alone a school girl. What has our country come to? We claim to be this pious nation, the miracle of Asia, but we can't even save our own sisters, daughters, mothers or wives from these types of terrible crimes. And this is not the 1st incident off this nature either. There have been so many reports in the recent past, and they only seem to be getting worse. The criminals are becoming bolder, with no regards for the law. Why is that?

Is it because we forget about these atrocities the moment a new band comes to play at our stadiums, the moment our team wins a cricket match? Is it because we don't know the victims and don't pursue the cases until justice is served? Is it because we were lucky enough to escape unscathed that we have become blinded to others' sufferings. Or is it because the criminals and the would be criminals know that people in Sri Lanka won't go out of their way to make them pay for their crimes?

There was hartal in Jaffna, but Colombo was quiet, are we waiting for it to hit closer to home because at the rate we are going, it will.

This deserves public outrage. It deserved public outrage when it happened to Rita John, it deserved public outrage when it happened to Victoria Alexandra, to innocent kids in Akuressa and Monaragala. Rioting will not help. We need to take a stand and make our leaders show these low life scum that rape and sexual assault will not be taken lightly in Sri Lanka. We need to start making an example.

Convicted rapists deserve capital punishment. Not only because it is a crime against humanity but because we need to show others like them that they can never get away with a crime so gruesome. We need to demand stronger laws to punish sexual offenders, so that we can save our daughters and our sons and make sure we give them a safe place to grow up in. So let's do our part.

Let's sign this petition and get it to the relevant authorities and make sure we're heard, at least this time around.

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