VIDEO: DON’T FOLLOW GOVT’S CROOKED ORDERS – UNP TO SOLDIERS

December 18, 2012  

The United National Party today request all security forces personnel to refrain from acting according to the “government’s wrong orders” as it will harm their reputation in the country as soldiers.  

Speaking on the topic of yesterday’s assault attempt on attorney Gunaratne Wanninayake, UNP MP Tissa Attanayake asked authorities not look at it as an average incident and that it be investigated properly as “the finger has been pointed at security personnel.”   

Wanninayake, a former Secretary of the UNP affiliated National Lawyers’ Association (NLA), on Monday said four unidentified armed men had attempted to attack him and his vehicle near his residence in Boralesgamuwa.

The closest reason for this is clear to us, the General Secretary of the UNP said, addressing a media briefing in Colombo today.

Especially as a member of the Bar Association and a strong critic of the impeachment motion brought against the Chief Justice, Wanninayake had engaged in decisive work regarding the issue within the past couple of weeks, he said. 

As usual the government has commenced threatening and oppressing this action launched against the government and the impeachment brought by it, he said.

The parliamentarians claimed that the threatening of attorney Gunratne Wanninayake is an attempt to intimidate the attorneys who are opposing the impeachment of the country’s top judge. 

“This is not the first such instance,” Attanayake said referring to the recent assault on the secretary of the Judicial Services Commission, Manjula Thilakaratne.

Police are still unsuccessful at even uncovering information regarding the perpetrators of that attack, he charged.

“Therefore it will come as no surprise if they are unable to arrest the individuals who threatened Attorney Gunaratne Wanninayake,” Attanayake said.

He further accused the government of attempting to manipulate the judiciary into doing what it wants via threats and intimidation. 

“Don’t attempt to bring back the White Van culture into this country,” he pleaded to the government.