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Video: Counselling could have prevented cases like Kondaya's: SB
Social Empowerment and Welfare Minister S.B. Dissanayake today said that if good counselling had been more prevalent, a case like that of Kondaya, who was suspected for Seya Sadewmi’s murder, could have been prevented.
Speaking at the National Counselling Day celebration at the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute, the minister requested for a more science-based counselling to be taught to village elders such as Buddhist monks and parish priests so they could provide relief at the village level.
He explained the importance of counselling referring to the murder of Seya.
“Take the case of Kondaya. He was in the forest, lived there. This should have come into the notice of our officials, the head monk of the village, or if it a catholic area; the parish priest or police. A man like this was living in the neighbourhood but was not attended to. They have failed a very important social responsibility.”
“A lot of talent is out there in the village; our field workers should go and find them. Like we found Susanthika and Dasun,” Minister Dissanayake further added, “Kondaya might have had many skills and talents that we didn’t get to realise.” (Dinali Jayasuriya)
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