The Shadow Of Gotabhaya
by Victor Ivan
( July 8, 2014, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) One named Gotabhaya Rajapaksa happens to enter Sri Lanka politics only after Mahinda Rajapaksa becomes president. Since leaving the military, for nearly one and a half decades, then he lived in the USA. He becomes a publicly known or powerful figure after his advent subsequent his sibling coming to power as president. With that he is appointed as the defence secretary - a post regarded as powerful- and he becomes the coordinator of the security forces in Eelam war IV that followed. He is the one who persuaded the president to agree in appointing General Fonseka, who can be regarded a key leader in the military victory, as the commander of the army, without retiring him. For whatever reason, the president has not been happy about Fonseka’ s appointment as army commander whereas he is the one who placated that disliking and got the president’s consent to give the job to Fonseka.
