Reading Weli Raju’s death the political way!

Saturday, 28 March 2015 

The global village is now reading through the internet, electronic and the print media about Buddhadasa Priyantha Sirisena alias Weli Raju, a brother of president Maithripala Sirisena, who died at dawn today.

Weli Raju’s death is getting various interpretations. From the government side, it is said the president had expelled him from the family around six to seven years ago, and that there had been no connection whatsoever between the two. But, Mahinda loyalists say there actually was a connection, pointing to his being airlifted to Colombo, and asking as to whether others meeting with accidents in Polonnaruwa are brought by helicopter to Colombo.

Priyantha Sirisena alias Weli Raju was actually a village thug. His livelihood was illegal sand mining using a business called Rajarata Builders as a front. Because of him, Maithripala Sirisena had become embarrassed on several occasions. Just because his elder brother became the president, Weli Raju did not change his ways. Until the JVP raised his illegal sand mining again, he had continued to engage in that unlawful activity. He was his former self, wearing a sarong and chewing betel, he frequented every village, junction and culvert at Pulathisipura. He did not forget to grin, showing his discoloured teeth, whenever he saw a village damsel. His daily routine ended with having a bottle or half a bottle of alcohol and spending the night at a ‘house known to him.’ That very habit brought his life to its end.

He did all these alone, not with the support of escorts, jeep backups or bodyguards. He did not use a pistol at least. That alone is enough to understand the connection between Weli Raju and his brother, the president. In the end, he had been brought by helicopter not at the request of his elder brother now in China, but due to voluntary action by those who are loyal to his elder brother, the president.

In our country, when the elder brother becomes the president, his younger brothers become the unofficial presidents. In actual fact, Weli Raju should have been in Las Vegas, playing casinos, or caressing the breasts of white girls, or licking pound notes and pasting them on the buttocks of those girls, or at least getting a body-to-body massage from a Thai girl in Bangkok. In the recent past, that was what we saw from the younger brothers and sons of the then president. Instead, what Weli Raju did was, as had been his years of practice, having a bottle and sneaking into his usual haunting place. The fellow in that place, unconcerned that he was the younger brother of the president, attacked him with an axe on his head. Still, that fellow, his wife and the parents remain unharmed. ‘Yaha Paalanaya’ did not burn down his home. The suspect was remanded. No one tried to score from the president by giving Lakmal ‘a return.’ Everyone is waiting for the law the take its proper course.

Mahinda loyalists say this all is due to the timidity of Maithri, that the younger brother wouldn't have suffered this fate had the elder brother stood firm. Those fools have forgotten how the former elder brothers and younger brothers ruined the country. These cannibals take the return of the rule of the law as timidity. In conclusion, we will quote from a printing mistake of ‘Lankadeepa’ newspaper. It said ‘Mahinda avasan buhuman dakwai’ (Mahinda pays last respects), at the funeral home of the slain Ratgama pradeshiya sabha chairman. But, many say the headline is having ‘ta’ (Mahinda-ta) missing. Anyone can interpret it the way he/she wants it to be.