Vass Gunawardena’s cleanup operation in Kotakethana revealed
Tuesday, 02 July 2013
Senior officers of the Police department have a few days back discussed how DIG Vass Gunawardena, who is now relaxing in the officer’s lodging at the remand prison, had cleared the Kotakethana area. This discussion had taken place at a wedding at the Water’s Edge.
The wedding was of senior DIG Anura Senanayake’s son and the chief guest at the event was Defence secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa. Although the Defence Secretary usually spends a short time at wedding receptions, he had stayed at Senanayake’s son’s wedding on the 28th from its start till the end.
The toast at the wedding was delivered by Senanayake’s daughter who is an undergraduate at the Colombo University. She had made an eloquent speech on behalf of her brother. The Defence Secretary who had stayed till the end of the wedding was seen moving freely about the reception hall speaking to the guests.
Senior police officers after consuming liquor had discussed the main topic in the Police Department these days – Vass Gunawardena’s incident. A key issue discussed by them was how Vass Gunawardena had ‘cleared’ Kotakethana a few days after assuming duties in the area.
A police officer who was aware of details about the incident had said that Vass Gunawradena had released the suspects in the Kotakethana murders and had later killed witnesses. The police officer had said that Vass Gunawardena had carried out the murders on “that man’s orders.” The officer had then pointed towards the Defence Secretary. “Vass has told his wife to reveal all the details if the government tries to mess with him. This has prevented the government from arresting Vass’ wife and son,” the police officer had further said.
