Sri Lankan government to save war heroes
Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse has tabled a resolution in the parliament to end court cases against government officers and alleged war crimes to the war heroes.
This resolution is based on a paper submitted by the President Gotabhaya Rajapakse and approved by the cabinet. It was based on the recommendations of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI), appointed in January last year.
This commission was tasked with investigating “political victimisations” during the previous so called Yahapalanaya government of President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, covering the period from January 16, 2015 to November 16, 2019. The commission submitted its final report to the president last December.
The resolution was presented to the parliament on April 9, debated once, and has been scheduled for further debate. If it were to be rammed through parliament, the government could order the withdrawal of judicial punishments and also terminate several ongoing court cases fabricated by the Yahapanaya government to please their western masters and Tamil diaspora.
This presidential commission consisted of three members—a retired supreme court judge Upali Abeyratne, retired appeals court judge Daya Chandrasiri Jayatilleka and a former inspector general of police, Chandra Fernando.
Commissioners have glorified the final phase of the war against the Tamil terrorists Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) which was waged by the government of President Mahinda Rajapakse. At the time, the current president, Gotabhaya Rajapakse, was defence secretary. Both were hailed in the report as “the heroic leaders who made Sri Lanka a unitary state again” by defeating the LTTE terrorists in May 2009.
The Commission report criticizes court cases, filed during the Sirisena-Wickremesinghe government, against military personnel using the “baseless allegations made against real war heroes by pro-western leaders, inspired by the Tamil Diaspora.”
The Sirisena-Wickremesinghe government came to power in January 2015, promising to address the suppression of democratic rights, war crimes and human rights violations, and investigate the rampant corruption during Mahinda Rajapakse’s rule.
The election of Sirisena as president was part of a US-sponsored regime-change operation. Washington had backed the war against the LTTE Tamil terrorists. However, the US was hostile to Mahinda Rajapakse’s ties with Beijing, under conditions where the Obama administration was determined to encircle and undermine China.
Cases were filed to many war heroes. On the intention of ending such “political victimization,” the current government is proposing to terminate these cases, including:
The high court trial against former navy commander retired Rear Admiral, Wasantha Karannagoda, Lt. Colonel, H.M.P. Chandana Kumara Hettiarachchi and several high-ranking navy officers.
The indictment of navy intelligence officer Gamini Seneviratne in the high court.
The commission has recommended that those politically victimized should be compensated, reinstated in their former posts, and given promotions that they would have received.
According to its recommendations, the charges should be brought against former prime minister pro-LTTE federalist Wickremesinghe and several of his government ministers, Tamil National Alliance (TNA) pro-Tamil terrorists MP M. A. Sumanthiran, opposition Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake, as well as senior police officers, lawyers and government officials. They are accused of making false allegations.
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