Evil fallouts of ragging - 20 dead ; 27000 abandon studies : Administrators asleep at the wheel : JVP and Peratugami responsible

(Lanka-e-News- 09.May.2016, 10.00PM) In present Sri Lanka , politics has crept into all the Universities. Each of these political groups has made ragging as their basic weapon  to boost their   leverage and power over the other group. Since ragging has been going on for generations , it has become entrenched and turned into a cancerous growth afflicting the University structure. As soon as  newcomers (freshers) enter the University those already in the Universities  become  seniors (males and females) . From that point of time , the seniors begin giving dastardly orders displaying their pride and forcing  the freshers to heed them. Thereafter  the tormentors start the ragging .Behind this ragging torture and torment are the JVP and Peratugamis , and these students who rag have been made the tools in the hands of those political parties.

The freshers are forced  to dress according to the desires of these tormentors. If the fresher is a male he must completely cut off his hair on the head like a servile lackey. If the fresher is a female  she must have her hair tied together and separated in two, wear rubber slippers , and a pair of earrings only can be worn as jewelry ,and nothing else.
 
This mad mania  was well illustrated when a fresher attended classes at Kelaniya University wearing jeans  a few days ago when the seniors (males and females)  tried to remove her jeans . Those freshers who do not condescend  are subjected to the worst torture, which aggravates step by step via diverse torture  methods.
       
These methods include making the freshers to move on their knees  , assaulting  and  urinating on them . All these are forcibly carried out  by the seniors , based on reports. These are demented  individuals who owing to their frustration and eccentricity  cannot stand to see civilized disciplined and decent  society. They  therefore  grudge them . These are seniors with inordinate sadistic desires and therefore  are truly insane.
 
In the belief , where  there is prosperity there is the deity, the  students go to Universities with the mental frame to show great diligence and application to their studies ,  but unfortunately realization dawns on them sooner than later  , it is but a place dominated by   demons of death  .  In the end , the final outcome is : the student who entered the University with  high hopes and full of optimism abandons the University education mid way.

According to statistics , owing to ragging ,  about 27000 students had abandoned their University studies , and about  20 students had paid with their lives .The number of students who became invalids , mentally ill  and crippled are also countless. Ravilal Wimaladharma a  popular artiste and lecturer , the father of Yashodha Wimaladharma fell ill and died because of the torture and torment inflicted on his daughter . There are so many such parents , which number had not been counted.

This is a most dire, dangerous and pathetic situation in Sri Lanka .Apparently , the  whole country is tied up in knots before this issue despite the fact we are disgraced beyond measure before the world. In the Universities  of decent civilized countries , it is the senior students who take care of the worries and woes of the freshers . This type of brutal and barbaric behavior of the seniors are never even heard in those countries. They do not know what this so called ragging is , and they absolutely frown upon this ‘syndrome’  -  a creation of mentally sick and sadistic immature scoundrels. In other civilized countries the seniors do a yeoman service as mentors instead of inflicting torture on the freshers.

It is these seniors (mentors) aforementioned in those foreign Universities who stand by the freshers in their weal and woe : they  ensure that the freshers  get their meals duly , medicines if they fall sick , and attend to their needs. The University  administration board  itself appoints these mentors . Fortunately among them there are no tormentors and torturers like in Sri Lanka. When the Universities of the world are maintaining discipline , decency and civilized behavior among their students ,  it is natural for the world  to look down on us  when seniors  of our Universities behave this degradingly , disgracefully and unashamedly displaying barbaric, sadistic  and inhumane qualities without let or hindrance.

Based on a survey conducted by us , it is the Universities of Peradeniya , Kelaniya and Sabaragamuwa that are leading in this brutal and barbaric ragging . Last year following the ragging at Sabaragamuwa University , a female student committed suicide. At the Peradeniya University too , because of the unbearable sufferings inflicted through ragging several  students of the engineering faculty left the University . They are now following the courses in private Universities. According to reports reaching us , at the Katunayake engineering technology Institute ragging is being carried out most viciously and venomously.

In any event in Sri Lanka ragging is banned legally.  Based on the ragging Act , even those who aid and abet such action , as well as those who are associated with it in any way are liable  to punishment. They can even be sentenced to jail. Despite this background ,  allowing this deplorable and abominable ragging to continue without creating an environment for the students to pursue their studies peacefully and freely after they enter the Universities  is  a serious situation worthy of condemnation by all. The administrative authorities of the Universities must hold themselves responsible for this grave situation.

Even now while the JVP and the Peratugamis are wielding power over the students in the Universities , 20 students died , and 27000 students abandoned their University studies.  It can be imagined  what calamitous and chaotic situation will prevail in the country if they wield power over the entire  country. 

Recently , the P.M. said , new rules and regulations shall  be introduced against ragging.  It is hoped those rules and regulations will become a reality soon without being  shoved into the limbo of forgotten things . 

By a  Medical student M.L.H. Ambepitiya 

Translated by Jeff

 (Herein are a number of posters  opposing ragging)

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