 (Lanka-e-News -18.Oct.2012, 11.55PM) The Rajapakse regime
once again shamelessly demonstrated to the whole world on the 17th that it
protects and promotes terrorists by officially announcing at a media briefing at
its media headquarters in regard to national security that Kumaran Padmanathan
alias K.P ., one of the three main power pillars of the LTTE ,and who is now
among the living , as having no witnesses ,complaints or charges against him,
while there are two arrest warrants internationally issued against KP as an
international terrorist. If there are no evidence against an individual , yet ,
if the Interpol has issued two warrants against that individual , surely, the
Interpol must be joking or else our regime clowns are joking in order to make
the law an ass.
It is not known whether SL withdrew the warrant in
connection with the Rajiv Gandhi assassination at the request of India. But the
warrant issued in India is still valid linked to charges based on use of arms
and explosive devices while engaging in terrorist activities. Despite these
glaring facts and revelations , strangely , when answering a question posed by a
foreign journalist at the media briefing yesterday (17) at the media
headquarters regarding national security, the reply given was , there are no
complaints or evidence against KP , and the Govt. has given KP all the freedom
to him to move about as he wishes.
It was also disclosed that KP is
running a non Govt. Organization (NGO) supposedly for the welfare of the people
of the north. However sometime ago , the Govt. Cabinet spokesman said , he is a
State witness. If he is to become a Govt. witness , he must necessarily have
been an accused earlier. Irrespective of what any judge may say , that is the
plain truth. Today , K P has suddenly been transformed as not an accused. A top
flight officer of the terrorist investigation division (TID) speaking to Lanka e
news said , there are indictments against KP in connection with the bombing of
the Central Bank , bomb explosion at Air Lanka and many other crimes which can
be proved as committed by him.
The Penal code provisions of SL that are
invoked all the time against the media state thus :
Section 115 :
conspiracy to overthrow a legally elected Govt . is punishable with a jail
sentence of 20 years.
Section 116 : Taking arms to wage war against a legally
elected Govt. is punishable with a 20 years jail sentence, a fine and
confiscation of assets .
Section 117 : Aiding and abetting to overthrow a
legally elected Govt. is punishable with a ten year jail sentence.
Based
on the foregoing punishable offences , it is crystal clear that all the above
charges can be filed against KP . Leaving all these charges aside, going by the
live interview of his with a journalist D B S Jeyaraj the latest sycophant cum
journalist coolie of the Govt. and who is now stooping to the lowliest levels to
bootlick the Govt. is alone enough to press charges against K P on the afore
noted penal code provisions, in which case he is punishable with a sentence of
50 years in jail.
Even as these reports were
being published by the media, a foreign journalist based in London speaking to
Lanka e news stated , ‘your country Sri Lanka is the one and only in the whole
world that has earned the discredit of allowing an illicit arms dealer to be
free . In this respect , SL is not only an odious model to Asia but to he whole
world as well’, he added. Despite all these heinous criminal charges heaped upon
K P, the Rajapakse regime regardless, took great pains to whitewash them and
paint a picture that K P is having a clean slate at the media briefing on the
17th.
Why is MaRa regime having this strong repugnant
motive? Let us explain …How did the LTTE get funds to fight the war
against the Govt. for 30 years ? It is an incontrovertible fact that these funds
were provided by the Tamil Diaspora. During the final phase of the war , the
LTTE income according to the Govt. intelligence unit was about US dollars 500
million per year ( that is only what surfaced ). In other words the income in SL
rupees was 50,000 million. They deployed this income in drug and international
illicit weapons businesses. LTTE Organization was a hub for these illicit
businesses in Asia. They had a fleet of seven aircrafts to facilitate these
businesses. The trio who knew the ins and outs of these operations was
Prabhakaran , Pottu Amman and K P. It is only KP who is now living. With the
annihilation of the LTTE the illicit drugs and arms businesses have lost the
hub.
This has created a void. That means there is still room to earn this
Rs. 50000 million. The Rajapakses’ gaze got fixed on these two businesses.
Rajapakses who are not caring for the Parliament and its supremacy or the
Democratic traditions when using the public treasury funds, and having grabbed
all the powers by fair and foul means to do what they want to according to their
whims and fancies , has uncontrolled power to dabble in any illicit businesses.
The illicit drug transactions partly came to light through Duminda Silva and
Lansas’ episodes. Yet another transaction of the many illicit arms deals also
got exposed when a secret ship load of arms of Gotabaya was impounded by the Abu
Dhabi Govt. recently and that hit the news headlines.
The Rajapakses are
anxious to open new Airports not to facilitate foreign travel of the people but
to facilitate their contraband movements. The present eagerness to build
armories is also to achieve those clandestine goals.It is therefore unsurprising
K P who was the mastermind behind all the illicit transactions for Prabhakaran
then had become the mastermind for the Rajapakses’ roguish minds now. In these
circumstances , where can there be charges against KP ? Where can there be
complaints against him when he has become the source of illicit income of Rs.
50000 million annually for the Rajapakses ?
Are the murderous Rajapakses
to be permitted to do their utmost to whitewash all the evil doings of KP and
project him as a ‘clean’ LTTE by claiming there are no charges, no witnesses ,
no complaints against KP who used the C 4 brought in by him to destroy the
Dalada Maligawa to dust ?
The people are keenly watching and waiting to
see what the pair of Mahanayakes will do who even go so far as to advise Range
Bandara who assaulted women and broke their hips to attend the rally or not
.
The people are also watching with eyes wide open to see what cardboard
patriot opened mouth Wimal Weerawansa; Rathane the Sadhu and Champika the quasi
sadhu of the JHU ,and the Bodhu Bala Sena are going to do
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