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Manel By Another Name Will Not Smell As Sweet

10.09.11

The term Lotus Eaters refers in Greek mythology to an island of people drugged and indolent who are quite happy with their way of life, eating Lotuses which is said to have produced the euphoria.

Grease Yakkas

Right now in some regions of this once happy isle the people are scared out of their wits, particularly in the North and East about Grease Yakkas. Travellers from the peninsula tell us of women, children and even men being afraid to go out in the dark because they have often encountered this greased devil. You cannot catch the Yakka yourself and collective community efforts have often led to disaster such as when an entire neighbourhood chased a Yakka into an army camp. Whether a Yakka has been caught and prosecuted in courts we have yet to hear of. There seems to be no great hurry about Yakkas scaring the northerners.

Land grabbing Yakkas

Those in most parts of the country fear another Yakka – a land grabbing Yakka. Many stories have we heard of Sri Lankans who fear that their ancestral property and lands may overnight be occupied and claimed by unknown people who could produce deeds from the Land Registry to prove that the hapless individual’s lands and houses are theirs. The police have quite often  washed their hands off the complaints claiming them to be ‘civil matters’ and the victims are asked to seek ‘relief’ in courts but this ‘relief’  comes only after years after they have been relieved of much of their income by their lawyers. Land Yakkas have been going from strength to strength.

Source: Sunday Leader