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SARATH bites again
Looks like Sarath attacking Gota again... Sarath has no shame!!!
General Fonseka speaks on the killings of the LTTE’s Pulidevan, Nadeson and Ramesh
By Frederica Jansz –
http://www.thesundayleader.lk/2009/12/13/“gota-ordered-them-to-be-shot”-–-general-sarath-fonseka/
Pulidevan, Nadesan and Ramesh
Common opposition candidate General Sarath Fonseka says Defense Secretary Gothabaya Rajapaksa instructed a key ground commander in the north that all LTTE leaders must be killed and not allowed to surrender.
In an explosive interview with The Sunday Leader General Fonseka the then Army Commander said he had no information communicated to him in the final days of the war that three key LTTE leaders had opted to surrender to Sri Lanka’s armed forces as the battle drew to a bloody finish.
Fonseka charged that communications were instead confined between the LTTE leaders, Norway, various foreign parties, Basil Rajapaksa, Member of Parliament and the powerful senior adviser to the President and such information was never conveyed to him as he supervised the final stages of the war. “Later, I learnt that Basil had conveyed this information to the Defense Secretary Gothabaya Rajapaksa – who in turn spoke with Brigadier Shavendra Silva, Commander of the Army’s 58th Division, giving orders not to accommodate any LTTE leaders attempting surrender and that “they must all be killed.”
General Fonseka explained how on the night of May 17th this year desperate efforts of three senior LTTE leaders trapped in the war zone to save their lives failed as they were instead shot dead as they prepared to surrender to government forces.
The government later claimed that troops found bodies of three key LTTE leaders identified as Nadesan, Pulidevan and Ramesh during the mop- up operations in the last LTTE stronghold on the morning of May 18.
General Fonseka said the incident took place as the remaining LTTE cadres were boxed into a 100m x 100m area, North of Vellamullivaikkal.
Balasingham Nadeshan a former police constable of Sri Lanka police was the political head of the LTTE. Seevaratnam Pulidevan was the head of “LTTE peace secretariat” while Ramesh a senior special commander of the military wing.
Hours before they surrendered, in a flurry of emails, text messages and telephone calls between NGOs, a foreign government and Sri Lankan officials in Colombo, the two LTTE political leaders had frantically inquired as to how they could give themselves up.
They were told: “Get a piece of white cloth, put up your hands and walk towards the other side in a non-threatening manner.”
But the attempt to surrender by the three LTTE leader and their families failed. Sometime between midnight on 17 May and the early hours of the next morning, the three men and their family members were shot dead.
General Fonseka said it was Basil Rajapaksa together with the Defence Secretary Gothabaya Rajapaksa who through foreign intermediaries conveyed a message back to the LTTE leaders who wished to surrender to walk out carrying a piece of white cloth. “It was their idea,” he said.
GENERAL SILVA AND ARMY COMMANDER SAY ‘ NO COMMENT’
When we contacted Shavendra Silva, now promoted to Major General he sounded very shocked when told of the allegation but insisted he could not respond to this charge until he had clearance from the military spokesman.
Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara told us he had to get clearance from the Army Commander Jagath Jayasuriya.
Later in the day the military spokesman said that he had contacted both the Army Commander and General Shavindra Silva and both had said that they would not comment on the matter.
The chief intermediary for the three LTTE men was the Norwegian government’s then Environment and Development Minister Erik Solheim. (Solheim is now the overseas development minister) On Sunday 17 May, Mr Solheim apparently received calls from LTTE figures who said they wanted to surrender.
The ICRC in Colombo later confirmed that it had received word from the Norwegians that the two leaders were looking to give themselves up. “The ICRC was approached on this matter by the representatives of the LTTE as well as the Norwegian authorities,” spokeswoman Sarasi Wijeratne was quoted saying at the time of the incident. “The information was referred to the Sri Lankan authorities. We have no idea what happened [then]. We lost contact with everyone in the last conflict.”
The government’s point man in the negotiations appears to have been former foreign secretary Palitha Kohona who is now Sri Lanka’s ambassador to the United nations He was quoted by news agencies saying that in the days leading up to Sunday evening, he had received a number of messages indicating from Mr. Nadesan and Mr Pulidevan – whom he has met at various peace talks – wanting a way out.
In one interview with ‘SiberNews’ Mr. Kohona said that his response had been that “there was only one way to surrender that is recognised by military practice”. He said they should obtain a white flag and give themselves up. “I kept saying this for three days,” he added.
But General Fonseka maintains that Nadesan, Ramesh and Pulidevan had been shot dead by government troops as they advanced towards them carrying a white flag, as they had been instructed to do.
Fonseka said he later learnt about what exactly had taken place as a result of journalists who had been entrenched at the time with General Shavendra Silva’s brigade command. These reporter’s according to Fonseka were privy to the telephone call received by the Army’s 58th Brigade Commander from the Defence Secretary –“telling him to not accommodate any LTTE surrenders but to simply go ahead and kill them.” – “These journalists later told me what exactly took place,” Fonseka said.
“Norway never got in touch” – Basil
Presidential Advisor Basil Rajapaksa refuted this damning charge. He told The Sunday Leader, “The Norwegians never got in touch with me over this particular incident. I have been in touch with the Norwegians over various issues pertaining to the conflict but never once on this particular issue.”
When asked if he had been unaware then that three LTTE leaders were seeking surrender during the last stages of the war – Rajapaksa replied, “No. I won’t say that. But Norway never got in touch with me.”
Asked nevertheless if he did convey something to this effect to his brother and Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Mr. Rajapaksa said “If I had not been informed by Norway in the first instance then obviously the second did not happen.”
Our attempts to contact Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa failed. When we telephoned the Defence Ministry Friday we were told Mr. Rajapaksa had not been in office the entire day. His staff refused to release any other telephone number.
Can we Trust this man - Sarath Ponna?
Those who support him can also be described as traitors!!!
mahinda loss 45%
sf win 55 %
mahinda loss 45%
sf win 55 %
Balan hitahnko wena wede..............
oya uba bus hora kiyana miniha karala tiyene weda tikaka dekala tiyanawada? ubala nikan podi babbu ban....
katha karala wedak nee
Uba ekathaweth aththak thiyanawa.Uda aparada chodana apu welawe Mahinda kiwwe ( uddaya yana welawe saha eta passe) kisima hamuda nayakakekwa international uda adikaranayata yawanne na e wenuwata eya yanawa kiyala.eth dan SF karanne monawada eya okkowallawama pawala denawa eyage wasiyata.
ane ban , ara adiwegi margaya hadana wade ganada uba oya mata keyanna yanne
macho a/l kapu kollek marune e para hariyata hadala nathi hinda thami uba monawada e gana keyanne
ITN & RUPAWAHINI balala ubala modayo wela
You sleep with Dogs, you get up with fleas..........thats what happened to SF, Slept with Ranil & Mangala, lost the dick, it's a shame that this kind of classyfied information leaking to the media from a top gun.............shame on you SF
SF wins or looses, now the West got what they were looking for, now we can see top brass of our Army getting War crime labels........Thanks to SF & his bunch of transexual hounds
SF wins or looses, now the West got what they were looking for, now we can see top brass of our Army getting War crime labels........Thanks to SF & his bunch of transexual hounds
ane ban , ara adiwegi margaya hadana wade ganada uba oya mata keyanna yanne
macho a/l kapu kollek marune e para hariyata hadala nathi hinda thami uba monawada e gana keyanne
ITN & RUPAWAHINI balala ubala modayo wela
adiweegi maragayak gena man katah karanee,,, kocharanam weda akrada ewa ekin eka mata kiyanna bee....
"macho a/l kapu kollek marune e para hariyata hadala nathi hinda thami"
monawada ban mee dena utthra......
i have decided yesterday after the comments made by Sf i will not vote either one of these guys.............................
ane ban , ara adiwegi margaya hadana wade ganada uba oya mata keyanna yanne
macho a/l kapu kollek marune e para hariyata hadala nathi hinda thami uba monawada e gana keyanne
ITN & RUPAWAHINI balala ubala modayo wela
maara wadak ne ban eeka! eeka nisa da eyaata bus hora kiyanne?
minihek paare accident wela marunama eekata waradith eyaa da?
ITN and Rupavahini waradi bawa aththa.. but eekai, prawaahana amathi sambanda na ne ban!
better to boycot the election bcause both are in same boat...............................they never think abt country..................
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