Namal Rajapaksa Pussyfoots About His Brother’s Thuggery
May 13, 2013
President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s eldest son Namal Rajapaksa MP is yet to answer questions posed by some Twitter users regarding his youngest brother’s attack on a Rugby referee last week.
On 8 May, Namal Rajapaksa said his younger brother’s attack of a Rugby referee ‘was a misunderstanding’. The response came as a reply to a Tweet by another Twitter user called Zaman Alfeoz.
Zaman asked “@RajapaksaNamal, did your younger brother Rohitha Rajapaksa attack the refree at 7 a side game… is it true?”
On 09 May, Reuters correspondent Ranga Sirilal asked Namal Rakapaksa via Twitter, “u mean that ur younger brother attacked the refree due to a misunderstanding?” (sic)
Another Twitter user asked him; “can you clarify what exactly happened? because we don’t want false accusations of your brothers,” (sic)
On 9 May, Ranga Sirilal again asked; “I’m sorry what was the misunderstanding? What exactly happened? Who attacked the referee? Who initiated the it?” (sic)
There has been no response to the rest of the tweets by Namal Rajapaksa, UPFA MP for Hambantota.
Presidential offspring Rohitha Rajapaksaassaulted Rugby referee Dimitri Gunasekera on May 05th at the Havelocks Ground in Colombo after the Navy lost a qualifying match.
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WikiLeaks: Mahinda, The Right Leader To Make Progress On A Solution To Ethnic Problem – US
May 13, 2013
“PDAS Steven Mann, accompanied by Ambassador and Pol Chief, met Defense Secretary Gothabaya Rajapaksa on March 8. Gothabaya, noting that an overwhelming majority of Sinhalese Buddhists had voted for Mahinda Rajapaksa in 2005, told us that his brother’s popularity among the majority community was still strong. However, Sri Lanka’s system of proportional representation in Parliament meant that the President’s party would never secure an absolute majority on its own. This, he explained, had made it necessary to create such a big cabinet to satisfy everyone. Mann responded that the President’s considerable political skills and his strong support made him the right leader to make progress on a solution to Sri Lanka’s ethnic problem. The U.S. hoped that the new power-sharing proposals that emerge form the current consultation process would be of a quality that hadn’t been seen before.” the US Embassy Colombo informed Washington.
Mahinda Rajapaksa
The Colombo Telegraph found the related leaked cable from the WikiLeaks database. The cable is classified as “Confidential” and recounts a meeting the US Embassy had with the Secretary to the Ministry of Difence Gotabhaya Rajapaksa. The cable was written on March 14, 2007 by the US Ambassador to Colombo Robert O. Blake.
“Defense Secretary Gothabaya Rajapaksa told visiting SCA PDAS Steven Mann that the government was certain that the LTTE was not interested in a political solution to Sri Lanka’s ethnic conflict. Nevertheless, he said, the government would try to reach out to the Tamil populations, bypassing the LTTE leadership. The security forces were finding it difficult to choke off LTTE resupply of arms and ammunition, but would redouble its efforts. Security forces would seek to consolidate their hold on the East by drviing the LTTE out of its remaining base in Thoppigala, then replace troops in the cities with police and Special Task Force units. He said the Karuna group was not a partner of the government in military operations, but that he saw no problem with the Karuna faction transforming itself into a mainstream political party. The government would try to push the LTTE back in the Vavuniya sector in order to control LTTE infiltration and secure the overland route to Mannar. Then it would press the LTTE to retrun to the negotiating table.” the US Embassy further wrote.
