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Presidential Election – 2010 - Post Election Violence - Updates 28thJanuary 2010
(Lanka-e-News 2010.Jan.28 10.30PM) The CMEV wishes to voice its grave concern regarding the level of post electionviolence recorded within the last 36 hours. While CMEV has detailed informationregarding many of the incidents, we are not in a position to release these details dueto safety issues for the victims. Therefore, only the cumulative figures of theconfirmed incidents are given bellow;

Total number of Incidents:33
Incidents by types
Major incidents:18
Minor incidents:15
Firearms Involved:07

Category of Major Incidents:

Murder:02
Grievous Hurt:04
Assault:06
Arson:03
Threat and Intimidation:02
Robbery:01

CMEV was formed in 1997 by the Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA), the FreeMedia Movement (FMM) and the Coalition against Political Violence as anindependent and nonpartisan organization to monitor the incidence of electionrelated violence. Currently,

CMEV is made up of CPA, FMM and INFORM HumanRights Documentation Centre.

DR. P. Saravanamuttu Co – Convenor
Mr.Udaya KalupathiranaCo–Convenor
Mr.Sunil JayasekaraCo-Convenor
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