(Lanka-e-News- 28.Dec.2013, 10.30PM) Medamulana Mahinda Rajapakse was having an LTTE cadre as his vehicle driver , and during the 1988-89 insurgency, after getting down an LTTE group to the south helped in the killing of Sinhala youths ; and in addition transported LTTE bombs in his vehicle to Colombo, Sri Lanka (SL) High commissioner in Myanmar, H. R. Piyasiri revealed.
It is a well and widely known fact that what mainly contributed to the victory of Mahinda Rajapakse at the 2005 Presidential elections was the people of north refraining from voting at the behest of the LTTE . Tiran Alles confirmed this by an affidavit whereby it was disclosed a large sum of money was paid to the LTTE towards this election boycott ( the two videos are available on the you tube). The LTTE immediately consenting to this arrangement trusting Medamulana Rajapakse was not a matter for surprise because of these strong ties between Mahinda and the LTTE for a long time. Copious and cogent evidence have come to light corroborating this.
Piyasiri who is the present SL High Commissioner in Myanmar and a former Minister of labor under the Premadasa government had clearly confirmed this close relationship between MaRa even before he became the Prime Minister then , and the LTTE organization.
Piyasiri first made this announcement when he attended a conference in SL. According to him , during the second youth uprising in 1988-1989 period in the south, as late Premadasa did not have faith in the forces, he had enlisted the support of LTTE groups to curb and control the youth insurgency. This support became most necessary in the south because the situation was most grave there. It is Piyasiri the present SL high commissioner in Myanmar and former labor Minister under Premadasa government who had been in charge of the LTTE group that was sent to the south.
The task that was entrusted to this group was to erect road barriers in the south; search the vehicles and provide protection to selected VIPs; along with the forces conduct raids ; and after arresting the rebel youths , kill them by inflicting torture.
At that time, the individual who drove Piyasiri’s vehicle was Bala , a very close lackey of Prabhakaran. Mahinda Rajapkse’s security too was beset with many problems during that period. In order to beef up his security at Mahinda’s request , as Minister of labor then, Piyasiri had provided an LTTE security detail to him too. As a reciprocal gesture for the help Piyasiri provided, he was appointed later by Mahinda as High Commissioner to Myanmar.
Following Piyasiri’s directives that time , youths in the south had been murdered in thousands using physical torture methods by the LTTE group.
During this period, LTTE Bala had also been functioning as Mahinda Rajapakse’s driver. It is via this contact Mahinda had established close relationship with LTTE leader Prabhakaran, thus assuring the LTTE nothing will be done to hinder or harm them . The LTTE based on that assurance ensured that the votes of the northerners are not cast in favor of Ranil at the Presidential elections.
It was during this same period, the LTTE freely transported their explosives and bombs freely to the south and planted their spies too there. On some occasions, even via the vehicles of Mahinda Rajapakse and Piyasiri, LTTE cadres along with bombs had been transported to Colombo.
All these are stark and startling exposures made by H .R. Piyasiri himself directly.
