Who Is Sarath Fonsek
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 
Sarath Fonseka, Lasantha Wickrematunge, Taraki Sivaram and Keith Noyahr
Ball for Karuna, jail for Fonseka
Sunday January 08, 2012
Former Army Commander, one time General Sarath Fonseka, who led troops to victory in the military battles against Tiger guerrillas, has been at the Welikade jail for almost three years. For one of his erstwhile enemies in the battlefield in the years before, it is a different story. |
Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan alias "Colonel Karuna," a onetime 'Eastern Commander' of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), was joyously welcoming the New Year at a luxury hotel in Colombo. It was only weeks earlier, the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) wanted Karuna investigated over the massacre of 600 police officers in the East when Ranasinghe Premadasa was President.
He shook, rattled and rolled to the music of the Gypsies. He was seen toasting glasses of whisky with other revellers. Not surprisingly, some chose to walk away instead of saying 'cheers' to this present day Minister.
"Would the victorious Americans or British have had a New Year party with Hitler singing," asked an irate retired military officer at the bash. "Only in Sri Lanka, a land like no other" consoled his friend as they took their swig of arrack.
