(Lanka-e-News- 28.Aug.2015, 8.40PM) One of the suspects (army officer) now in custody had disclosed that it was ex defense secretary Gotabaya Rajapakse who gave orders to murder Prageeth Ekneliyagoda, according to reports reaching Lanka e news.
The chief in charge of Girithale army camp , Lieutenant Colonel Shammi Kumararatne at that time had told the army decoys who came to abduct Prageeth ‘this is an order from the secretary , therefore be very cautious.’ As Shammi Kumararatne and Lieutenant Colonel Prabodha Siriwardhena were most concerned as this was ‘an order from the secretary’ they have come midway to inspect when Prageeth was being abducted and to make sure everything was happening according to plan, investigations have uncovered.
The bogus story now weaved by Kumararatne and Siriwardena is , after Prageeth was handed over to Corporal Jayalath for questioning , Prageeth escaped from custody. The CID had then questioned thse suspects what was the punishment meted out to corporal Jayalath for allowing a suspect in his custody to escape? The Colonels were dumbfounded with no naswer to give.
Siriwardena before meeting and abducting Prageeth had also visited the Dambulla farm of Prageeth.
Meanwhile it has come to light that Shammi Kumararatne has also carried out another abduction and murder at the behest of Gotabaya.That crime was in relation to Poddala Jayantha. But in the case of Poddala Jayantha, his legs were broken and abandoned without killing.It is Kumararatne again who had supplied arms for the murder of Raviraj M.P. This same Kumararatne is suspected of monitoring the group that attacked the Sirasa media Institution and set fire to it.
In Sri Lanka during the Rajapkse regime there were thousands of abductions and disappearances , but it is only in Prageeth’s case the culprits were apprehended, but the copious and cogent information unearthed in this case during investigations has served as a great boon, for it became possible to get to the very root of the great many criminal involvements of the culprits , and uncover the masterminds behind them.
It is learnt that there is a great eagerness among the forces to clear itself of the ignominy and incriminations attaching to the forces ,by seizing the criminal chiefs of the forces duly and handing over to the CID , who were acting as lickspittles and lackeys of the Rajapakses most obediently carrying out their illegal orders to abduct and kill innocent citizens , whereby the entire image of the forces was tarnished. Although a few unscrupulous chiefs of the forces are trying to suppress the crimes and criminals , a great many in the forces are providing accurate and factual information to the CID , and extending invaluable assistance to them, it is reported.
A high ranking chief of the forces speaking to Lanka e news said , powerful countries like America were bringing pressure to bear that an international investigation be launched into our war crimes, but now that tough line has softened following the internal investigation launched into the Ekneliyagoda murder , and arrest of a number of high profile army officers by the CID. By this investigation , we had been able to prove that we have the capacity to punish wrongdoers regardless of their ranks and highness in the hierarchy . Consequently , not only the reputation of the forces but even the image of the entire country has been safeguarded, he observed.
Meanwhile it has become known that Gotabaya is trying to bolt from the country in a day or two, based on his fear that he could be arrested as the individual who gave orders . Suspicions are mounting whether there is secretive support of the higher ups towards this for his passport was released yesterday (27) to him.
It is learnt that defense secretary Basnayake who had instructed the police not to object to the release of the passport to him by the Galle court. The defense secretary had told , ‘this is an order from the H.E.’ .H.E. is the incumbent president.
It is a matter for doubt whether Basnayake sold the ‘president ,’ for the police had not obtained a confirmation from the H.E. or probed the veracity of Basnayake’s statement after he gave such outrageous and dangerous instructions. Without any trace of doubt Basnayake has all along been an accomplished liar and his mendacious traits despite holding a lofty official position were exposed not once but twice by Lanka e news.
During the past , when oral instructions were given sans writing , the habit of the government servants not to carry out them had been completely destroyed across the whole of Sri Lanka (SL),so much so that such an order from even a crooked higher up , and its implementation by the subordinates have become a common practice and a custom to the detriment of the country.
No matter what , if anybody is deliberately and purposely allowing room for Gotabaya to flee the country before he is arrested in comnnection with the abduction and murder of Prageeth in which criminal case he is incriminated , nothing can be more reprehensible and repugnant from the point of view of the nation and law abiding people irrespective of who is behind this traitorous manipulation.
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I am not surprize, Please investigate the track record of Basnayake. hat do you expect?
-- by jay on 2015-08-29