Sri Lanka, June 11 -- They accused the government and the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of harassing the senior army officer by humiliating him before other suspects detained at the CID headquarters for various other offences and starving him.

They have been claiming that the government by humiliating "war heroes" was working according to the whims and fancies of the Tamil diaspora who wants to avenge the security forces for annihilating the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).

However, despite the arousal of ethnic emotions by the leaders of these political parties over this arrest, the crowd that showed up for the Sathyagraha in front of the Fort railway station on Monday to protest against the arrest was disappointing...