Politicising the Lasantha Wickremetunga murder investigation
C.A. Chandraprema-March 3, 2018,
On January 8, 2009, it was a diplomat in the Indian High Commission who phoned me and said that Lasantha Wickremetunga had been ‘shot dead’. I was out of Colombo at the time and was not able to go to the Kalubowila hospital where he had been brought following the attack. I was one of those who had a personal debt to Lasantha which I was never able to repay. Later at the Barney Raymond’s funeral parlour where Lasantha’s remains lay before being taken to his house in Battaramulla, Sarath Kongahage doing an astrological analysis told me that Lasantha was not able to survive the sub period of Saturn in the major period of Rahu. The latter is a malefeic planet that basically ruins lives and makes everything go wrong. It drives one from pillar to post and makes one wander from place to place with no relief in sight. The major period or Rahu lasts 18 years and the sub period of Saturn kicks in about six years into the major period of Rahu. Had he been alive Lasantha would have been under the influnce of Rahu till around 2020.