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Premadasa had his men in selected position. He insisted on Brigadier Wimalaratne spying on Denzil Kobbekaduwa and gave him that specific task. General Attyagale had to give orders down the line to give Government stocks of weapons to the LTTE, who were by then considered enemies and also import weapons for them. These officers feared Premadas's revenge if obstructed in any way. Tennyson Edirisooriya, a former Member of Parliament for Tissamaharama, who testified at the Inquiry Commission said that Brigadier V. Wimalaratne had told him two or three months before his death that, he was sent to Jaffna by President Premadasa to do a specific job, namely to spy on General Denzil Kobbekaduwa and if he did not do what the President wanted, then his further prospect would be affected. According to Tennyson Edirisooriya, Wimalaratne has told him that he found Kobbekaduwa to be a very good person. Therefore, Wimalaratne was in a dilemma not knowing what to do?
Brigadier Bohoran under oath to Commission said that, Army Commander General Wanasinghe told him that, there will be a consignment of arms and ammunition to be sent to Welioya for the LTTE and that a LTTE representative would take delivery. He said that General Wanasinghe told him to keep this matter secretly. According to Brigadier Bohoran, the consignment went by road in 4 trucks, the LTTE came by air force helicopters to his Welioya camp helipad. Lawrence Thilkakar and two or three others were there. General Wanasinghe had already told him that being a soldier their feelings did not matter. They had to carry out orders from the top.
Bohoran said that he changed the drivers of the truck and the escorts to take the lorries into the jungle to the unloading point. Bohoran had some special forces troops who helped him put on this operation. He said that he told them to keep secrecy. The unloading took place at a point close to Kent Farm (Kalyanapura). The LTTE was waiting. It was close to midnight. One of the officers who participated in this operation was Lieutenant Vathiyage.
The weapons delivered on 6 July 1989, according to the list of Brigadier Bohoran, were 500 T56 automatic rifles from the Central armory of the Army Headquarters. Again, according to Brigadier Bohoran, he received another consignment in two lorries load on 7 July 1989, the very next day. The consignment included 1 lakh ammunitions for self loading rifles, 200,000 rounds for T56 rifles. He said over 100 LTTE cadres came to secure the weapons in tractors. The handing over of weapons took place about 15 kilometers from the Welioya Base camp.
Brigadier Bohoran under oath to Commission said that, Army Commander General Wanasinghe told him that, there will be a consignment of arms and ammunition to be sent to Welioya for the LTTE and that a LTTE representative would take delivery. He said that General Wanasinghe told him to keep this matter secretly. According to Brigadier Bohoran, the consignment went by road in 4 trucks, the LTTE came by air force helicopters to his Welioya camp helipad. Lawrence Thilkakar and two or three others were there. General Wanasinghe had already told him that being a soldier their feelings did not matter. They had to carry out orders from the top.
Bohoran said that he changed the drivers of the truck and the escorts to take the lorries into the jungle to the unloading point. Bohoran had some special forces troops who helped him put on this operation. He said that he told them to keep secrecy. The unloading took place at a point close to Kent Farm (Kalyanapura). The LTTE was waiting. It was close to midnight. One of the officers who participated in this operation was Lieutenant Vathiyage.
The weapons delivered on 6 July 1989, according to the list of Brigadier Bohoran, were 500 T56 automatic rifles from the Central armory of the Army Headquarters. Again, according to Brigadier Bohoran, he received another consignment in two lorries load on 7 July 1989, the very next day. The consignment included 1 lakh ammunitions for self loading rifles, 200,000 rounds for T56 rifles. He said over 100 LTTE cadres came to secure the weapons in tractors. The handing over of weapons took place about 15 kilometers from the Welioya Base camp.
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Meanwhile, Athulathmudali and Kobbekaduwa were gathering facts and the information about the transfer of weapons and Gamini Dissanayake and G M Premachandra also joined in their endeavor, in March 1991. It was alleged that one Tilak Shantha, a security guard of Lalith Athulathmudali, and army private De Silva, who was supposed to be the confidante of Denzil Kobbekaduwa since 1985, had became the eyes and ears of Premadasa.
The dismissed UNP members - over the failed attempt to impeach the President - organized a new political party, the Democratic United National Front (DUNF), and Lalith Athulathmudali and Gamini Dissanayake were made joint Presidents.
Meanwhile, Premadasa began to take steps to check on the growing popularity of Denzil Kobbekaduwa. During the siege of Jaffna Fort by the LTTE, Kobbekaduwa began an operation to relieve the siege. He submitted his plans to the army headquarters for approval. It was said that, the very evening before the proposed operation was to take place, the Observer newspaper, one of the Government-controlled English evening dailies, carried his plans for relieving the Fort. There had been a deliberate leak to ridicule and obstruct Kobbekaduwa.
Meanwhile, Athulathmudali and Kobbekaduwa were gathering facts and the information about the transfer of weapons and Gamini Dissanayake and G M Premachandra also joined in their endeavor, in March 1991. It was alleged that one Tilak Shantha, a security guard of Lalith Athulathmudali, and army private De Silva, who was supposed to be the confidante of Denzil Kobbekaduwa since 1985, had became the eyes and ears of Premadasa.
The dismissed UNP members - over the failed attempt to impeach the President - organized a new political party, the Democratic United National Front (DUNF), and Lalith Athulathmudali and Gamini Dissanayake were made joint Presidents.
Meanwhile, Premadasa began to take steps to check on the growing popularity of Denzil Kobbekaduwa. During the siege of Jaffna Fort by the LTTE, Kobbekaduwa began an operation to relieve the siege. He submitted his plans to the army headquarters for approval. It was said that, the very evening before the proposed operation was to take place, the Observer newspaper, one of the Government-controlled English evening dailies, carried his plans for relieving the Fort. There had been a deliberate leak to ridicule and obstruct Kobbekaduwa.
Superior officers of the army, Special Task Force (STF) and persons who held executive and administrative positions in Premadasa's government, namely General Sepala Attyagalle, Secretary of Defense, K H J Wijedasa, Secretary to the President, Brigadier Bohoran of the army, Lionel Karunasena and Sahabandhu and Commandant and the Deputy Commandant of the STF and a host of other officers have all admitted and confirmed both in their testimony of the witness Vathiyage, to the fact that arms and ammunition, including 6mm RPG guns, motars, self loading rifles, 400 T81 automatic rifles, T56 automatic rifles, pistols, hand grenades, ammunition and equipment for all communications sets etc and other components of modern warfare were given to the LTTE.
Tear gas rifles, tear gas, signal flames, pistols, fingercups, etc and hand-held integrated circuits, SG 700 car antennas, video cassettes, boot mounts, tilting boot mounts pipe mounts etc were also passed on. Furthermore, the LTTE ordered the import of numerous items, such as well drilling machines, radios, cables, mobile sets, head phones, microphones, batteries, amplifiers and water purification tablets which were imported and addressed to Defense Secretary General Sepala Attyagala, c/o A S Balasingham of the LTTE. The duty on these imported items was paid by the Defense Ministry.
Money was also secretly given to the LTTE in 1989 and in 1990. Weapons were given from Government stocks, from armories, specially imported for the purpose of usage of the air force, army, navy and STF on the orders of the President, ostensibly to crush the Tamil National Army, thought to be fostered by the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF), and through that the IPKF was able to read the intentions and the signals of the Sri Lankan Government and would leave the country.
As an aftermath of the transfer weapons by the Government to the LTTE in 1989-1990, a Presidential Commission in its Sessional Paper No. VIII - 1997 reports as follows:
(a) The Indian Peace Keeping Forces leave Jaffna on 20th March 1990 (The date they left the shores of Sri Lanka was 24 March 1990) and returned to India a few days later, after licking their wounds. They had been asked to leave by President Premadasa in mid 1989. Towards the end of May 1990, the outstation reports showed the LTTE were taking control of more and more territory.
(b) Premadasa was insistent that the IPKF leave Sri Lanka. The LTTE while crushing the TNA emerges as a resurgent domineering force in the North and East. They demand the withdrawal of army camps in the North and East and the withdrawal of the police in those areas. The IPKF have left. The LTTE takes up police duties. They did inquiries into complaints. They manned road blocks and policed the roads. Government forces were humiliated on public roads. The police are mostly confined to their station premises attending to minor duties, such as attending to cases of sudden deaths, accidents and insurance. Police officers played games and guarded themselves. To leave the police station, the police had to telephone and get permission from the LTTE. Armed LTTE cadres used to come into police stations to talk to the OIC. The LTTE used to walk about the roads armed with sophisticated weapons. The LTTE conducted its own training programs. The Army camp at Akkaraipattu was withdrawn. At instruction classes, police were told there were peace talks between the LTTE and the Government for the development of the country and the police were told not to clash with them.
(c) On 11 June 1990, the LTTE surrounded the police stations in the Batticaloa and Amparai police divisions and asked the police to surrender and they would transport them to Amparai. The Government asked the police to act with restraint. Some police officers were prepared to hold their and fight and requested Artillery and Air support. Later that day IGP (Inspector General Police) informed that such a support was not available. President Premadasa did not know what to do. He has been kept informed right along what was happening since May. He had believed the LTTE and now he felt let down - that was the evidence of Mr. K.H.J. Wijedasa, Secretary to the President. The police were asked to surrender. They did so believing that they would be transported to Sinhala areas. In some stations LTTE opened fire and police officers were killed.
The LTTE entered all stations breaking open the gates and fences, broke open the armories and took all weapons and ammunitions. In the Amparai district the police officers were herded into vehicles and then taken to Kanchikudicahiaru jungles and shot dead.
One person who survived the ordeal and who escaped has testified before the Commission. P S A L Najubudeen was acting OIC of Akkaraipattu police at that time. He gave a detailed account of what happened on June 11, 1990 and how they were betrayed and taken into thick forest and shot and his escape etc. The Commission believed him. His evidence was not been contested in any manner. He later led the authorities to the spot where the others were shot death. The real evidence there confirmed his death.
Meanwhile, after the displeasure between Premadasa and Lalith Athulathmudali surfaced, President Premadasa at public meetings spoke of "learned fools" to wit and spoke of "learned men who robbed cleverly but also went to jail".
There were obvious references to allegations of wrong doing made against Lalith Athulathmudali in regard to ships and shipping, whilst being in charge and leveled during the general election campaign, and of his being remanded in custody in 1976 in respect of a conspiracy to cause grievous hurt to Ediriweera by means of corrosive substance to wit: acid and abatement of that offence which was committed. Lalith Athulathmudali spent time in the remand jail during the police investigations.
Meantime, Luxman Perera, Member of the Municipal Council (MMC) wrote a play using the title "Me - caudate - Monawada Karanne?" (The Sinhala translated into English: Who is he - What is he doing?) This title has been taken from the slogan of the same words used in the 1988, in support of President Premadasa's presidential election campaign.
Luxman Perera's drama was meant to be a satire on the Premadasa's administration. Luxman Perera joined hands with journalist and media man Richard Soyza. Luxman Perera's play was submitted to the Public Performances Board, which approved it. It was said that, Lalith Athulathmudali was aware of the content of the drama, as Luxman Perera was one of his close political associates.
Luxman Perera lived in a bungalow belonged to the Railway Department, in the Station Road, Dehiwala, with his family. Lalith Athulathmudali agreed to be the chief guest of the drama, on the opening night. Suddenly, a few days before the opening night, a van without a number plate arrived at Luxman Perera's home at night and took him away. He disappeared. He was presumed dead. It was rumored that Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Ronnie Gunasinghe was responsible for the abduction.
A few days later, on February 18, 1990, Richard Soyza was forcibly carried away from his bed, by a group of men, who arrived at about 3 am, despite his mother's protest and intervention. Subsequently, Richard Soyza's body was found washed ashore at Korolawella beach Moratuwa.
These were the beginning symptoms of Lalith Athulathmudali's troubles in the UNP. When the episode regarding the impeachment motion was staged, Lalith Athulathmudali was sacked from the UNP. The theme of depicting President Premadasa as being unsound mind in the impeachment motion was said to have originated from the play written by Luxman Perera. Premadasa referred to Lalith Athulathmudali as a "Ugath Modaya" - Learned Fool - because he was deeply insulted by the wording of "unsound mind" in the impeachment motion.
Tear gas rifles, tear gas, signal flames, pistols, fingercups, etc and hand-held integrated circuits, SG 700 car antennas, video cassettes, boot mounts, tilting boot mounts pipe mounts etc were also passed on. Furthermore, the LTTE ordered the import of numerous items, such as well drilling machines, radios, cables, mobile sets, head phones, microphones, batteries, amplifiers and water purification tablets which were imported and addressed to Defense Secretary General Sepala Attyagala, c/o A S Balasingham of the LTTE. The duty on these imported items was paid by the Defense Ministry.
Money was also secretly given to the LTTE in 1989 and in 1990. Weapons were given from Government stocks, from armories, specially imported for the purpose of usage of the air force, army, navy and STF on the orders of the President, ostensibly to crush the Tamil National Army, thought to be fostered by the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF), and through that the IPKF was able to read the intentions and the signals of the Sri Lankan Government and would leave the country.
As an aftermath of the transfer weapons by the Government to the LTTE in 1989-1990, a Presidential Commission in its Sessional Paper No. VIII - 1997 reports as follows:
(a) The Indian Peace Keeping Forces leave Jaffna on 20th March 1990 (The date they left the shores of Sri Lanka was 24 March 1990) and returned to India a few days later, after licking their wounds. They had been asked to leave by President Premadasa in mid 1989. Towards the end of May 1990, the outstation reports showed the LTTE were taking control of more and more territory.
(b) Premadasa was insistent that the IPKF leave Sri Lanka. The LTTE while crushing the TNA emerges as a resurgent domineering force in the North and East. They demand the withdrawal of army camps in the North and East and the withdrawal of the police in those areas. The IPKF have left. The LTTE takes up police duties. They did inquiries into complaints. They manned road blocks and policed the roads. Government forces were humiliated on public roads. The police are mostly confined to their station premises attending to minor duties, such as attending to cases of sudden deaths, accidents and insurance. Police officers played games and guarded themselves. To leave the police station, the police had to telephone and get permission from the LTTE. Armed LTTE cadres used to come into police stations to talk to the OIC. The LTTE used to walk about the roads armed with sophisticated weapons. The LTTE conducted its own training programs. The Army camp at Akkaraipattu was withdrawn. At instruction classes, police were told there were peace talks between the LTTE and the Government for the development of the country and the police were told not to clash with them.
(c) On 11 June 1990, the LTTE surrounded the police stations in the Batticaloa and Amparai police divisions and asked the police to surrender and they would transport them to Amparai. The Government asked the police to act with restraint. Some police officers were prepared to hold their and fight and requested Artillery and Air support. Later that day IGP (Inspector General Police) informed that such a support was not available. President Premadasa did not know what to do. He has been kept informed right along what was happening since May. He had believed the LTTE and now he felt let down - that was the evidence of Mr. K.H.J. Wijedasa, Secretary to the President. The police were asked to surrender. They did so believing that they would be transported to Sinhala areas. In some stations LTTE opened fire and police officers were killed.
The LTTE entered all stations breaking open the gates and fences, broke open the armories and took all weapons and ammunitions. In the Amparai district the police officers were herded into vehicles and then taken to Kanchikudicahiaru jungles and shot dead.
One person who survived the ordeal and who escaped has testified before the Commission. P S A L Najubudeen was acting OIC of Akkaraipattu police at that time. He gave a detailed account of what happened on June 11, 1990 and how they were betrayed and taken into thick forest and shot and his escape etc. The Commission believed him. His evidence was not been contested in any manner. He later led the authorities to the spot where the others were shot death. The real evidence there confirmed his death.
Meanwhile, after the displeasure between Premadasa and Lalith Athulathmudali surfaced, President Premadasa at public meetings spoke of "learned fools" to wit and spoke of "learned men who robbed cleverly but also went to jail".
There were obvious references to allegations of wrong doing made against Lalith Athulathmudali in regard to ships and shipping, whilst being in charge and leveled during the general election campaign, and of his being remanded in custody in 1976 in respect of a conspiracy to cause grievous hurt to Ediriweera by means of corrosive substance to wit: acid and abatement of that offence which was committed. Lalith Athulathmudali spent time in the remand jail during the police investigations.
Meantime, Luxman Perera, Member of the Municipal Council (MMC) wrote a play using the title "Me - caudate - Monawada Karanne?" (The Sinhala translated into English: Who is he - What is he doing?) This title has been taken from the slogan of the same words used in the 1988, in support of President Premadasa's presidential election campaign.
Luxman Perera's drama was meant to be a satire on the Premadasa's administration. Luxman Perera joined hands with journalist and media man Richard Soyza. Luxman Perera's play was submitted to the Public Performances Board, which approved it. It was said that, Lalith Athulathmudali was aware of the content of the drama, as Luxman Perera was one of his close political associates.
Luxman Perera lived in a bungalow belonged to the Railway Department, in the Station Road, Dehiwala, with his family. Lalith Athulathmudali agreed to be the chief guest of the drama, on the opening night. Suddenly, a few days before the opening night, a van without a number plate arrived at Luxman Perera's home at night and took him away. He disappeared. He was presumed dead. It was rumored that Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Ronnie Gunasinghe was responsible for the abduction.
A few days later, on February 18, 1990, Richard Soyza was forcibly carried away from his bed, by a group of men, who arrived at about 3 am, despite his mother's protest and intervention. Subsequently, Richard Soyza's body was found washed ashore at Korolawella beach Moratuwa.
These were the beginning symptoms of Lalith Athulathmudali's troubles in the UNP. When the episode regarding the impeachment motion was staged, Lalith Athulathmudali was sacked from the UNP. The theme of depicting President Premadasa as being unsound mind in the impeachment motion was said to have originated from the play written by Luxman Perera. Premadasa referred to Lalith Athulathmudali as a "Ugath Modaya" - Learned Fool - because he was deeply insulted by the wording of "unsound mind" in the impeachment motion.
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