thursday 24 of November 2011(Lanka-e-News -23.Nov.2011, 11.55P.M.) Lanka e News is in receipt of reliable information on the groups involved in the abductions of civilians in the notorious white Van. This whole operation is carried out on the orders of defense Secretary Gotabaya Rajapakse by a former Sergeant Major of the Special Force's (SF's) LRRP unit. His name is Maddumage Wasantha who lost a leg during the Mamaduwa in Vavuniya District army operations.
He left the Army because of his disabled condition on medical grounds. Although he is supposed to have left the Army , he is even now carrying out orders of his mentor Gotabaya Rajapakse while being based at the STF regiment Headquarters, abducting civilians in the white Van on Gotabaya’s orders. He is supported by about six soldiers of the army. This entire group is presently not in the Army permanently.
Maddumage Wasantha joined the first group of the STF and was attached to the Engineering regiment . He was the most efficient soldier in the SF remote places operations unit.
He resides at ,Wedagawatte, Magamana, Homagama . But he visits home only once a week.
He meets Gotabaya through latter’s private secretary Colonel Jayantha Ratnayake who is a former officer of the SF. Colonel Ratnayake was a commanding officer for the SF from the Gajaba regiment under Gotabaya Rajapakse.
When this group abduct civilians in Colombo , it is Colombo district commanding chief, Brigadier Shantha Dissanayake who gives protection to them. Shantha Dissanayake is a Brigadier who is ready to do any unlawful directives and criminal actions at Gotabaya's bidding.
Prior to the recent elections , it is this Shantha Dissanayake who deployed army soldiers to clean up latrines and slums in Colombo.
This same Dissanayake is the Brigadier who gives orders on the routes to be followed and safeguards the abductors when the abductions are done via the white Van , without being confronting the Security detail on the routes. This ignominious task was performed earlier by Mahinda Haturusinghe , another infamous Major General who is now the Commanding chief in Jaffna
