Was Loku Athula murdered within Temple Trees ? – why no investigation into this murder mystery?

(Lanka-e-News -01.Dec.2014, 11.00PM) Grave suspicions are being harbored by the relatives of most popular Wijayamuni Dewage Athula Nimalasiri Jayasinghe alias ‘Loku Athula’, a former deputy Minister and current Gampaha district SLFP organizer that he was murdered within the Temple Trees.

Loku Athula had died while he was within the Temple Trees on 29 th night , and no postmortem examination had been conducted on his body, whereby the suspicions of the whole country had been aroused. These suspicions have been further heightened because of the tremendous efforts that are being taken to suppress this death within the ‘Temple Trees’ of the President of the country. After Loku Athula had revealed to his close party associates that he is going to extend his support to Maithripala Sirisena at the upcoming Presidential elections , he was summoned to the Temple Trees on the 29 th night at about 7.30 to hold discussions with a view to influence him to change his mind.

In compliance with the request he had visited the Temple Trees at the scheduled time , and as reported by Lanka e news yesterday (30) , discussions had been held with him with the participation of the decision making high profile team of the present regime comprising Mahinda Rajapakse , Basil Rajapakse, Dallas Alahaperuma, Susil Premajayantha and Anura Priyadharshana Yapa . Loku Athula was out until 9.00 p.m. At the end of the discussion , Mahinda Rajapkse had called Loku Athula into the room. What happened thereafter is known only to the two of them. Later , amidst screams , the ambulance of the Temple Trees was brought and Loku Athula was taken to hospital.

It is worthy of note that even when Loku Athula was being taken into the ambulance , he was dead. Hence , it was the corpse of Athula that was admitted to the hospital and not Athula . In the circumstances , this death is most suspicious , and a postmortem should be conducted compulsorily to ascertain the cause of the death, and an open magisterial verdict be delivered after the inquest. Yet , this procedure had not been followed. What is worse ? all moves are being made to suppress this incident which has every trace of evidence of homicide committed within Temple Trees.

How did Athula who was ailing from no disease , hale and hearty die suddenly within Temple Trees? Was he murdered ? Did he die due to a fatal fall when he was being assaulted by somebody ? All these questions are preying on the minds of Loku Athula’s relatives and friends .

Might we recall Loku Athula was the second in command only to Rohana Wijeweera during the 1971 insurgency. After the end of the unsuccessful insurgency , Athula and another 300 rebellions fled into the Wilpattu jungle from Kurunegala. When they went into hiding into the jungle , only a small group of about 45 members remained. In the jungle following an exchange of fire with the forces , Loku Athula was arrested after he was wounded due to gunshot injuries. Later in the much publicized court trial Loku Athula was made the first accused.

During the trial , Wijeweera betrayed the movement by claiming that the insurgency was a Loku Athula conspiracy and not the decision of the JVP . Loku Athula who pleaded guilty was punished with a life sentence. However in 1978 , with the pardon granted to the insurgents , Athula , was freed. Since that day , Athula was associated with the SLFP when pursuing his political career until the time of his recent mysterious death within the Temple Trees.

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