I found 3 more very important articles on the subject.
First one is an academic paper from Sociolinguistics Symposium 19, Freie Universität Berlin, "The language of victims and rapists: Embracing verbal taboo to reappropriate victimless slang". The whole world knows Sri Lankan university students are perverts, sadists, sociopaths, murderers and criminals.
http://neon.niederlandistik.fu-berlin.de/ss19/paper/1326
Other one is from
1975 in medical faculty. What you have to understand is that these {perverts/sadists/sociopaths/murderers/criminals/JVP/Anthare} are now senior doctors, professors, heads of departments, administrators, chiefs of staff, committees and intellectuals who are running Sri Lanka appointed by seniority and qualifications with BSc, MSc, Phd. These are not politicos. They are now running the country. You never blame them. You think educated are not given the proper position. They
are in the high positions.
As I said, if you flush out the {perverts/sadists/sociopaths/murderers/criminals/JVP/Anthare} today then in 40 - 50 years this country will become a Singapore. Otherwise this will get worse as the students from 80s, 90s, 2000s become the next professors and leaders.
This subject is taboo. That's why nobody talks other than the few we hear. It's the tip of a Everest size ice berg. But it is going on for ages. That's why Sri Lanka is a failed state. Sorry for this post. But somebody has to tell the truth. Thank you for letting the voice heard. If you're from newspapers let the public know the politicos is a minor issue for the blunders in the price band, stock market, central bank, economy, treasury, transport authority running the buses and trains, managing electricity, planning and building roads, bridges, housing schemes, drainage, agriculture, food manufacturing and distribution, storing, ports and aviation, AL results, Z Score. Those are run by these qualified educated staff. This is
the deadly issue.
The article in The Sunday Times of October 25, regarding "Ragging in the University" prompted me to relate the bitter experience I had when I entered the University 22 long years ago as a Medical student in the Peradeniya Campus. The nightmare I had been through kept haunting me for many more years even after leaving the University. I have not revealed these horrors to anyone because even the memory of it is so humiliating and bitter.
From the very first hour I reported to one of the halls of residence in the Peradeniya University, I realized that I was not going to live with human beings. The groups of "Seniors " who tormented me for the subsequent three weeks were a bunch of mentally disturbed sadists. Within the first hour my unsuspecting parents left my room, joyous that their brilliant, hard working eldest son was now in the haven of the educated, I was asked to strip naked. Thereafter it was a never ending series of sadistic torment, which lasted three long weeks.
Group after group, these perverts entered our rooms, and we were ordered to perform various acts, mostly sex orientated, for their enjoyment. These were sprinkled with acts of severe physical toture. Crawling on the naked hot cement in the Hilda Obeysekera Hall corridor with many others stark naked till your elbows and knees bled, crawling under the furniture pretending that you are en route to some country on a scholarship, doing hundreds of pushups, situps, climbing on to and getting down from a high table pretending that you were on a pilgrimage to Adam's Peak till you dropped down in exhaustion were just some of these "friendly acts" in the course of "getting to know each other".
Every morning, we were woken up around 5.30, and then were herded into the courtyard between fifth and sixth wings of Hilda Obeysekera Hall for the "Common Rag". We were ordered to strip naked, and were taken through an exhausting series of physical exercises. In between some of our tormentors picked one or two victims and they were asked to have an ice cold bath, only to return to the courtyard to continue with the ragging. This common rag lasted anything upto one hour, and a similar activity took place at dusk. Then, stinking of your sweat, splattered with mud, bleeding from a multitude of abrasions, it was time for you to rush to your morning ablutions, breakfast and of course, lectures.
Another cruel act performed at that time was the "castration". The victim was forced to place his scrotum in a half opened drawer. He was then blinfolded. After a very convincing account of what is about to happen, the table top was hit hard with a plank. I was a victim of this (It was performed in Jayathilake Hall, by a Final Year Medical Student, now a Medical Specialist himself!) and I can still feel the shock and the immediate relief which followed. Anyone with a weak heart could have had a heart attack. How on earth can such an act help to get to know each other?
Even the dining hall was not spared of this mental and physical torture. I was asked to sing while eating, eat with my plate on my head, with my plate behind me, but these appeared harmless when compared to the torturing which went inside rooms. I can remember being ordered to polish my plate, that is to finish everything on the plate, including karapincha, rampe, egg shells, fish bones, etc., etc. The night was feared by all. There were various kinds of vulgar contests, in which one was asked to perform various acts, including masturbation, display of your private parts so that these "seniors" could find a winner. Where was this held? - not in a torture chamber - but in the common room of Hilda Obeysekera Hall, where the subwarden slept just one floor above.
Ragging in all forms must be banned. Students who are caught ragging the freshers must be expelled from the Campus. One can never describe the agony a newcomer goes through in these three weeks. The tough may survive but most carry deep scars till the end of their lives.
We now know how an innocent, brilliant Engineering student who was the apple of his parents eyes, was ragged inhumanly till he died of renal failure. How long are the law makers and the University Dons going to sit on this issue? How many more deaths and hours and hours of agony and humiliation do we want before this is banned completely?
Medical Student in 1975
Now a Consultant Surgeon
(http://sundaytimes.lk/971109/letm.html#LABEL2)
Finally enjoy this video if you're Sri Lankan. Look how psychopathic the cream of the Sri Lankan students are and how the next generation who will lead the country, take over the economy, crawl on the dirt like dogs and bitches on a single command. You should be proud of the future leaders. Sri Lankans, enjoy.
https://youtu.be/ClymCgN28sw