26 year old B.Sivakumar was mentally challenged, he lived in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Being mentally disabled he used to throw stones on passing trains and buses, poor creature belonged to a mental asylum so as not to harm himself and others.
On Thursday two supposedly absolutely normal policemen, came to investigate the charges against him. Sivakumar though not in his right senses perhaps recognised the power and the torture which sometimes go with the uniform, perhaps he was intuitive.
So when they came near him brandishing their batons he tried to escape, they hit him and to escape the torture he jumped into the sea, all the time pleading with the policemen to spare him. The TV grabs show Sivakumar pleading with the policemen in the sea to spare him while one of them is swinging the baton hitting Sivakumar on hand while the other one was fast closing in on Sivakumar.
Poor, innocent Sivakumar, he was not in his right senses so he never knew what he was doing was wrong but these two policemen was totally aware of their action and they were beating a mentally challenged man delibrately.
Sivakumar while trying to escape the pain was washed away by a tidal wave but even as he was carried away to his death his hands were folded perhaps still optimistic that somehow he will be spared the torture, perhaps he was pleading to be spared totally unaware of the fact that within few moments he will no longer need the mercy of these mortals. His body was found near the shores.
The Deputy general Inspector of Police Anura Senanayake of the Colombo crime division has ordered an inquiry. But there will always be a question mark on the manner in which these policemen treated Sivakumar, a little compassion could have perhaps saved a life.
Are they all mentally challenged?