Janaka Perera Assassination And The Patriotic Card
| by Tisaranee Gunasekara
“Traitors should be given capital punishment.”
Gotabhaya Rajapaksa (The Island – 6.5.2010)
( September 7, 2014, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) A former LTTE colonel who pleaded guilty for the assassination of Major General Janaka Perera was given a 20-year prison sentence this week.
General Perera was murdered by a Tiger suicide bomber in 2008. A popular figure with Sinhala extremists because of his role in the long Eelam War and his hardline political views, he joined the UNP in 2008 and was made the party’s chief ministerial candidate for the North Central Province. The UNP lost but General Perera topped the overall preference vote count.
