Conspiracy to assassinate president!
- Sunday, 11 January 2015
An Army major general, in a special statement to Lanka News Web, says with responsibility that there is a conspiracy within the Army to assassinate Maithripala Sirisena, who has been elected as the sixth executive president of Sri Lanka. This military officer says he is prepared to testify, and furnish evidence, at an investigation.
According to him, a group of military officers are ready to stage suicide attacks on behalf of former president Mahinda Rajapaksa. Rajapaksa has planned this conspiracy together with those loyal to him in the Army, under which he will return to parliament, claim majority support and become prime minister before assassinating the president, after which he will be appointed the president in accordance with the constitution.
One of the pets in the Rajapaksa regime, retired Maj. Gen. Nissanka Senadhipathi of Avant Garde security service, is supplying arms for this conspiracy from his floating armoury in the south. The maj. gen. who gave us the information wants the defence ministry to immediately take over this armoury.
Also, all the persons in the hierarchy of the three armed forces appointed by the Rajapaksa regime should be replaced, he stresses. The former president had first thought of executing this conspiracy at dawn on January 09, but he had to give priority to send to safer locations the various currencies and gold that he had kept at safes at Temple Trees. As these were being transferred, 10 kg of gold had gone missing. Over this, Rajapaksa even had a heated exchange of words with Gamini Senarath, who had the keys to this room.
With a history of committing murder to gain power, Rajapaksa is sure to execute this conspiracy in order to gain power again, said the maj. gen. This is no fabricated news, and he is prepared to prove the allegations with documentary evidence.
The Challenges Before Us
By Rajiva Wijesinha –January 11, 2015
Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha MP
I write this before the results of the Presidential Election are known and I assume President Sirisena will address these challenges. But since it is conceivable that President Rajapaksa might be declared the winner, and might be able to convince our people as well as the world that he was fairly elected, I hope that he too will think of these matters and not continue with the mixture as before. In particular he must make it clear that he will no longer rule through an oligarchy of family and friends with questionable capacity, but will work with senior members of his own party and technocrats subject to supervision by democratically established institutions.Read More