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Unemployed
grads vow to ‘fight till the end’
By
Lakna Paranamanna
They would continue their fight until their demands
are met, vowed the Combined Unemployed Undergraduates Association
(CUUA) after their violent clash with Police.
The CUUA conducted the protest in front of the Fort Railway
Station, demanding the government to fulfil promises made
to unemployed graduates during the period 2006-2008. The main
demands included providing 43,000 jobs, a promise which hasn’t
been fullfilled since the 2006 Budget, looking into the delay
of the results of the Competitive Teachers’ Examinations
held to recruit 8000 teachers and using unemployed graduates,
with false job promises, for the election campaign in the
North Central and Sabaragamuwa Provinces.
“After
the protest, we were heading towards the President’s
House, to hand over a letter to the President Mahinda Rajapaksa,
in which our demands were included. But, near the Sambodhi
temple, we were harassed by the police,” said Media Spokesman,
CUUA, Dhammika Munasinghe. Some of the protesters had been
injured by the assault and one of the protesters was arrested.
“But we stayed there and got him released,” he added.
However, he said that, they will wait until the upcoming Budget
also and, if they still don’t receive a solution to their
problems, they would conduct several other boycotts and various
other union actions, until the Government fulfils their promises.
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