Colonel positions for more government officials

Wednesday, 17 October 2012

The Defence Ministry has made arrangements to award “Bravo Colonel” positions to ministry secretaries, district and divisional secretaries from 2013.

The programme is to be implemented in several stages and the Defence Ministry has made arrangements to get the financial allocations for the project in the 2013 budget.

Principals from schools island wide are to be presented with Colonel positions during the second step of the project next year.

The first step of this programme concluded on October 8th. Two officials from the Education Ministry and 23 male and female school principals were presented with Colonel positions.

A senior Education Ministry official said that Bravo Colonel positions are being presented to education offices to maintain institutional discipline and for financial management. The programme is to be carried out in several stages.

Officials in the defence establishment have now started to refer to the “Bravo Colonel” positions presented to school principals as “Broiler Colonel” positions.

The Defence Ministry is currently holding discussions to explore the possibility of granting such Bravo Colonel positions to state doctors, university lecturers and members of the judiciary. The Defence Ministry has also proposed that persons employed into the state sector in future be ranked from the position of second lieutenant.

Ban calls for speedy political solution to factors behind Sri Lanka’s civil war

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (right) meets with Mahinda Samarasinghe, Minister of Plantation Industries of Sri Lanka. UN Photo/Paulo Filgueiras

16 October 2012 – In a meeting with a senior Sri Lanka Government official, United NationsSecretary-General Ban Ki-moon today emphasized the need for to find a speedy political solution to the underlying factors behind the country’s civil war that ended three years ago with a Government victory over Tamil separatist rebels, according to his spokesperson.

In a meeting at UN Headquarters in New York with the Sri Lankan Minister of Plantation Industries and Special Presidential Envoy on Human Rights, Mahinda Samarasinghe, Mr. Ban noted the Government’s latest efforts on accountability as well as the steady progress on resettlement issues, his spokesperson added in a note to the news media.

Sri Lankan Government forces declared victory over the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in 2009 after a conflict that had raged on and off for nearly three decades and killed thousands of people.

Mr. Ban has long called for full accountability, and the UN Human Rights Council in March called on the Government to take “all necessary additional steps to fulfil its relevant legal obligations and commitment to initiate credible and independent actions to ensure justice, equity, accountability and reconciliation for all Sri Lankans.”

A three-member panel of experts – established to advise the Secretary-General on accountability issues during the civil war – found there were credible reports that both Government forces and the LTTE committed war crimes during the final months of the conflict.

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UN urges Sri Lanka to take ‘credible’ steps to ensure accountability for alleged war crimes

Tamils for Obama Collects for the Prez to Help Re-election

Tamils for Obama, a Tamil American political organization that favors President Obama, has sent a letter to its members and friends asking them to contribute through Tamils for Obama to the president’s re-election campaign.

“We supported the president before he was the president,” said a press spokesman for Tamils for Obama. “We continue to support him, and now we are raising funds for his re-election.”

In a letter to their members and friends, the Tamil American political organization announced that they continue to support the president, and asked members and friends to contribute money to the Obama re-election campaign.

“The Obama administration forced the UN to address the problem of persecution of Sri Lankan Tamils, and pushed the UN Human Rights Council to look into a war crimes investigation into actions by the Colombo government. We praise the administration for this, and we expect that they will continue to do things that will help bring justice to the Tamils,” said the spokesman.

“We think that in his second term, President Obama will use his vast influence to bring the Sri Lankan war criminals to justice. We also hope that he will push the UN to conduct a referendum in northeastern Sri Lanka similar to the one held in South Sudan.

“Of course, we want our friends to contribute through our website,” said the spokesman. “We want the campaign to know where the money is coming from. This political campaign, like any other, lives on contributions, and we want them to see that we are still their friends.”

To see the letter, go to: http://www.tamilsforobama.com/Letters/Obama_Fundraising_2012.html

To contribute, go to: http://www.tamilsforobama.com/Contribution.html

Tamils for Obama is a politically active group of Tamil Americans. We supported Hillary Clinton and then Barack Obama in the Democratic primary and US general election in 2008. We believe that over 70,000 Tamil civilians were massacred during the last weeks of the Sri Lankan civil war. We have watched the behavior of the Sri Lankan Singhalese victors after the war, and we strongly conclude that Tamils in Sri Lanka will only be safe when this unfortunate island is divided into two states.

To contact the group, call at (617) 765-4394 and speak to, or leave a message for, the Communication Director, Tamils for Obama.

http://www.TamilsForObama.com 
Email: info(at)TamilsforObama(dot)com

Rajapaksa’s Forgotten Chintana And The Deafening Silence On Electoral Reform

By Kath Noble -October 17, 2012

Kath Noble

The Local Government Elections Act was amended last week, with no debate either inside or outside Parliament. But was the change genuinely uncontroversial? I don’t think so.

Given that the process was initiated in the immediate aftermath of the passage of the 18^th Amendment, we should have been more suspicious. The18^th Amendment was part of Mahinda Rajapaksa‘s post-war strategy to tighten his grip on power. He was thinking about how to make use of a moment at which he enjoyed unprecedented popularity to achieve what is best for him. Are we really to believe that reforms to the voting system announced just a few weeks later were about what is best for the country?

People have a general sense that Proportional Representation is problematic, which leads them to assume that a mixture of Proportional Representation and First Past the Post – the new legislation calls for 30% of seats to be decided using Proportional Representation and 70% using First Past the Post – would be better.

The argument goes as follows. The country is unstable with Proportional Representation, since it is difficult for any one party to achieve a majority. Proportional Representation also leads to violence during elections, as candidates fight each other for preference votes. They have to spend more since constituencies are larger and they have to cover a larger area, leading to more corruption. And it is more difficult for voters to hold their elected representatives to account. First Past the Post disadvantages minority parties, but what is being proposed is a compromise.

Will the reforms actually solve any of these problems? Are they even the problems that need solving?

When it comes to accountability, it seems to me that voters will have even less chance of controlling politicians under the new legislation. At the moment, people can choose between candidates while maintaining their allegiance to a party. This is important. They need not vote for a party whose policies they don’t agree with simply because they don’t like the individual the party has nominated in their area. I bet plenty of UNP supporters stayed at home or even backed Mahinda Rajapaksa in the 2010 presidential election rather than cast their vote for Sarath Fonseka. That is what happens when choices are limited.

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Sri Lankan ambassador to Geneva is “intentionally misleading” the UNHCR's 63rd Executive Committee

Wednesday, 17 October 2012 

Addressing the 63rd Session of the Executive Committee of the UNHCR on Tuesday (2nd October 2012) Sri Lanka's Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva Ambassador Ravinatha Aryasinha has said,

"Those who downplay the significance of Sri Lanka's post-conflict achievements and constantly keep shifting goal posts, show disrespect not only to Sri Lanka and its international partners whose steadfast commitment to this task has made these achievements possible“.

British Tamils Forum (BTF) Human Rights Team Leader in Geneva, Kana Nirmalan said; what the ambassador failed to tell the assembly is that the suffering of the Tamils in the Island, and it continues even today which was caused by the very government he represents.

The Tamil people are choosing to leave the island in unseaworthy fishing boats across high seas rather than face certain death in the hands of the Sri Lankan "White Van" death squads This is just one indicator of Sri Lankan State’s self proclaimed achievements

Ambassador Aryasinha stated that "in contrast to the considerable difficulty and gloom in the humanitarian crises that continue to engulf many parts of the world today, Sri Lanka’s recent achievement provides confidence and hope". In his address he detailed the so called progress made over the last three years as IDP resettlement, de-mining, re-integration of ex-LTTE combatants, the shrinking of the high security zones, increase of economic growth in the Northern Province and operationalisation of LLRC recommendations. Again Mr Aryasinha’s version is far from the reality of life for Tamils in the island.

The so called IDP resettlement is non-existent as the people who have been forcibly evicted from the IDP camps have been prevented from resettling in their original homes, which are currently occupied by the 170,000 strong Sri Lankan occupying military. There is no assistance given to the people who are forcibly taken in buses and then dumped in isolated jungles. These people are then made to fend for themselves without any assistance. The reality is so embarrassing that the UN had to withdraw its congratulatory note on resettlement, soon after its release.

On the question of political prisoners, thousands are still languishing in illegal detention centres. The Sri Lankan government still has not released a list of those it detained at the end of the war, thousands of whom are feared extra-judicially executed in custody. The high security zones have been expanded and new military settlements have been created. Original inhabitants of these lands have been protesting against these illegal land acquisitions. The so called economic growth in the north is calculated based on the salaries paid to the 170,000 occupying military force, the construction of Buddhist temples in a non-Buddhist region. To reduce the visibility of the occupying military, the Army has been given civilian clothes. Even their very own LLRC promises remain on paper.

Mr Nirmalan stated that the Sri Lankan ambassador is “intentionally misleading the United Nations and seems to think that the world is not watching what is really happening on the ground.” Sri Lanka has in the past bluffed its way through the international human rights mechanisms, and would continue to do so with its sham commissions while actually continuing its persecution of the Tamil people in a climate of absolute impunity.

The women clearing Sri Lanka's mines

When Sri Lanka's long civil came to an end in 2009, the town of Puthukudiyiruppu was left with a grim legacy. Landmines and other unexploded devices lie behind every tree, in every ditch, in houses, churches and temples.

The women say they want to help people get back to their homes

Many were randomly scattered by Tamil Tiger rebels in the final months before their defeat. Both the rebels and the army made extensive use of Pakistani-made P4 mines, which can take the foot off someone unfortunate enough to step on them.

But now efforts are under way to rid the country of this scourge once and for all.

At sunrise 12 women deminers laugh and joke as they prepare for work.

Mine clearing is slow and painstaking work for the women

They are one of three teams of women, and five of men, employed by the UK-based Mines Advisory Group (MAG) - one of several demining charities working to rid Sri Lanka of unexploded weaponry left over from 26 years of war.

"So many people died, so many children, husbands, whole families," recalls one of the women, 38-year-old Jayakanathan Valarmadhy. Like her colleagues she is Tamil and from the north, and endured the war.

Visors and body armour

"Many people lost hands or legs. I saw many like that. I helped in the hospitals, gave blood, we did whatever we could to help."

(1)Mines in northern Sri Lanka are even found outside toilets and in cemeteries(2)Mine clearing is slow and painstaking work for the women

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Harmful chemicals found in milk powder

Wednesday, 17 October 2012 

Samples of milk powder manufactured by two companies for the local market have been sent to the Government Analysts Department for tests after identifying traces of Hydrogen Peroxide in the powder.

An official from the Consumer Affairs Authority (CAA) told us that the milk powder samples have been sent to the Government Analysts Department by the Authority following a complaint that some milk powders contained chemical substances.

However, one report had been received and it had stated that the chemicals used to clean the machinery may have mixed with the milk powder in the manufacturing process.

The CAA official said that the decision on whether to stop the manufacturing process of the two companies would be made after receiving the other report as well.

Sri Lanka frees Tiger leader wanted by India

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By Amal Jayasinghe

Tamil Tiger guerrillas take part in a 2003 military parade in the northern town of …

The last leader of Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers, who is wanted by India over the assassination of former premier Rajiv Gandhi, has been freed from military custody, the defence ministry said Wednesday.

Selvarasa Pathmanathan, who was arrested in August 2009, was no longer in detention and was free to carry out work for a charity he had formed, said Lakshman Hulugalle, the head of the defence ministry's media centre.

The announcement comes less than a month after the closure of the last camps which had housed people who were displaced by the 37-year conflict and amid pressure on the government to pursue reconciliation with minority Tamils.

But the main Tamil political party said the release should not be seen as an act of reconciliation, asserting that Pathmanathan -- who is also known as "KP" -- had cut a deal with the government.

The news emerged when Hulugalle was asked how Pathmanathan, who has an Interpol arrest warrant initiated by India against him, was reportedly living in the island's north.

India regards the 58-year-old Pathmanathan as a key suspect in the May 1991 assassination of Gandhi by a Sri Lankan Tamil suicide bomber during an election rally in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

"Practically, there is no detention now," Hulugalle told a press conference.

He said Pathmanathan was running a non-government organisation and doing "development work" in the island's north. "There is no court case against him," he added.

"This (transformation of Pathmanathan) is a victory for us. A person who had been working against us and leading Tamil people is now working to develop the country."

Pathmanathan, the chief international arms buyer for Tigers, was appointed the head of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) by its elusive leader Velupillai Prabhakaran just before he was killed by Sri Lankan troops in 2009.

Sri Lanka's military victory in May 2009 ended the LTTE's nearly four-decade long struggle for an independent Tamil homeland, one of Asia's longest running ethnic conflicts.

Rights groups have accused Sri Lankan security forces of killing up to 40,000 civilians in the final stages of the ethnic war, a charge vehemently denied by the military.

Sri Lanka is also under international pressure to share political power with the minority ethnic Tamil community and address grievances of racial discrimination that fuelled the LTTE's separatist struggle.

The country's main Tamil political party, the Tamil National Alliance (TNA), gave a cool response to the release, saying Pathmanathan had cut his own deal.

"We have nothing against KP, but if he can be released without any charges, what is the justification for holding 800 Tamils in prison -- some for over 10 years -- without any charges," TNA lawmaker Suresh Premachandran told AFP.

"If the government is serious about reconciliation they can start by (releasing) all those Tamils in custody who have no charges against them for long periods."

A senior Asian diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that the government saw Pathmanathan as a possible ally for local elections in the former war zone next year and even as a potential provincial "chief minister candidate".

Pathmanathan was arrested in August 2009 by undercover Sri Lankan security agents at an undisclosed South East Asian destination and flown to Colombo.

Government spokesman Keheliya Rambukwella described Pathmanathan's arrest at the time as a major blow to LTTE's remnants abroad.

The state-run media had also accused Pathmanathan of a string of criminal activities, including gun running and drug smuggling.

There was no immediate comment from the Indian embassy to Pathmanathan's release which came despite an Interpol arrest warrant against him at the request of the authorities in New Delhi

Tamil Tiger leader Selvarasa Pathmanathan a 'free man'

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THARMALINGAM, SHANMUGAM KUMARAN

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Present family name :	THARMALINGAM
Forename :	SHANMUGAM KUMARAN
Sex :	Male
Date of birth :	06/04/1955 (57 years old)
Place of birth :	KANKENSANTURAI, JAFFNA , Sri lanka
Language spoken :	Tamil, English, Sinhalese, French
Nationality :	Sri lanka

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Tamil Tiger leader Selvarasa Pathmanathan a 'free man'

They say there are no longer plans to lay any charges against him.

Media Centre for National Security head Lakshman Hulugalle told the BBC there was "no case" against Mr Pathmanathan.

Most of the rebel leadership - including its top leader Prabhakaran - was killed amid heavy fighting at the end of the country's civil war in 2009.

Asked if Mr Pathmanathan was any longer in detention, Mr Hulugalle said: "Practically, there is no detention now."

Mr Pathmanathan is on Interpol's "wanted" list: the international police organisation says he is sought by India on charges of terrorism and of crimes involving the use of weapons or explosives.

The government's announcement has been criticised by the opposition United National Party (UNP).

UNP spokesman Deputy Secretary-general Jayalath Jayawardana described Mr Pathmanathan - who was outside Sri Lanka when the war ended in May 2009 - as a "wanted criminal".

Mr Pathmanathan was named the rebels' leader after the death of Prabhakaran.

But he was returned to the country in mysterious circumstances in August of the same year.

Reports said he was detained in Malaysia, possibly with the involvement of Sri Lankan intelligence, and then brought back to the island in what some called a case of "extraordinary rendition".

At the time state television said he was suspected of smuggling arms and drugs, conspiracy and "terrorist fundraising".

He had served as the Tamil Tiger's weapons procurement chief.

Up to now, the government had said he was in detention although he now runs a development charity in the north and has been travelling in that region from time to time.

Mr Hulugalle said: "I think it's a victory for us - at one point he was against us and was a leader of Tamil people.

"Today he is working for development of this country - he is free to do that."

It is not known where Mr Pathmanathan has been living but reports earlier this week said he is in Kilinochchi, the town the rebels used as their headquarters.

Asked by the BBC how it was that a senior rebel leader was free while many far more junior ones were facing legal action, military spokesman Brigadier Ruwan Wanigasuriya said that because there were no legal complaints against Mr Pathmanthan, there was no need to charge him.

What A “Democrat” And Should He Go Scot Free ?

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What A “Democrat” And Should He Go Scot Free ?

By Kusal Perera -October 16, 2012

Kusal Perera

That so unlikely an outcome should accrue to a man possessed of such limited talent and so many flaws, and one lacking in a sense of ethics and decency, was one of the bitter ironies of history. - William Thomas Green Morton

This is a majority Sinhala Buddhist society in a country, introduced in song as the “The most noble of all countries in the World” (Loken Uthum Rata Lankawai), where an ex-Chief Justice could get on a platform that’s supposed to campaign for “democracy”(?) and say, “There are many complaints that it was I who was responsible to bring Rajapaksa into power. I admit it since Mahinda Rajapaksa was freed to become President because of this decision by the Supreme Court,” [DM – online ; Tuesday, 16 October, 2012 – 07:00] Then PM Rajapaksa was freed of allegations of misappropriation of Tsunami funds, to quote this man again, “We did this expecting Mahinda Rajapaksa in turn would safeguard the rights of the other people but it is not happening today”. It is for that reason he says, he admits responsibility in Mahinda Rajapaksa becoming President, And this man, a self proclaimed Buddhist preacher, and late entry into advocacy for “democracy” is applauded by the Sinhala audience in this country, for saying it.

As Sarath N. Silva now says, this decision is plain personal and nothing legal. Expecting a person will be good, will be serving others, safeguarding the rights of other people in freeing a person indicted in a Court of law, is pure wishful thinking that has nothing legal in it for sure. But of course he did coin some legal jargon to make his personal decision look legal. Far worse is what he did to MP Kabir Hasheem. As CJ, he also slammed a torturous penalty on the complainant, Kabir Hasheem. That too now seems was done, to give his personal wish, a judicial colour and some credibility.

Ex-Chief Justice

History of Sri Lanka during the past decade would have been certainly different, IF he did his job right, as people expect a Chief Justice to do. If he did honour that high seat, maintaining its repute, trust and confidence. Sarath N. Silva’s utterances now prove, he had betrayed all that trust, all the confidence and the reputation of that high seat, he was expected to at least maintain, if he could not improve on them.

His personal interest and an uncompromising vindictive ego as a Judge heading the Supreme Court in making decisions is evident beyond doubt, in how he decided upon the Contempt of Court case against Micheal Anthony Fernando. Writing about that indictment, Mumbai High Court (Retd.) Justice, H. Suresh contributing an article on “Contempt” to Asian Human Rights Watch wrote, “….In my view, the imprisonment of Mr Michael Anthony Fernando ordered by the Chief Justice (Sarath N. Silva) of Sri Lanka is without the authority of law. In short, it is illegal(Emphasis added). The Chief Justice has no right to send any one to prison except in accordance with the law. Otherwise, he can only detain a person till the rising of the court.”

Let it be reminded that Fernando was even brutally assaulted while in remand prison and had to be hospitalised, was chained to the bed as a remand prisoner, while CJ Sarath N. Silva sat on judgment over the case in February 2003, while being a respondent in the case. The fundamental norm in the judiciary that “respondents” and judges should not be same, was violated. Such is this man, who was once CJ of this “most noble country of the world” and it goes to prove that he could have very personal reasons in arriving at decisions.

He has to be held responsible and never pardoned for another very serious dent he made in representative democracy that keeps violating the sovereignty of the people. His decision(s) that allowed any “cross over” in parliament to continue as an elected MP, despite his or her political party objecting to his or her continued presence in parliament as a MP, allowed hoards of UNP and SLMC Members of Parliament to jump camp to accept ministerial portfolios in the government. A week ago, when Leader of Opposition Wickramasinghemaking a statement in parliament on the independence of the judiciary, took umbrage against former CJ Sarath N. Silva for not being independent, UNP Galle District MP Manisha Nanayakkara, another cross over interrupted to say, he is still MP thanks to CJ Sarath Silva.

The SC decision which allowed crossing over from one side to the other, in effect was to allow the government to “buy” over opposition MPs and at one point, Weerawansa was compelled to say, the parliament is like a horse dealing market. If not for that SC decision, 17 plus MPs from the UNP would not have been able to sit with the government and make themselves Ministers. All those millions of votes that went against the government and for the opposition party before they picked on their preferences, immediately became irrelevant. Allowing such huge cross overs made a mockery of representative democracy and the parliament a legislature with a wholly distorted people’s will.

Whether such a person who had been the sole reason in deforming the people’s verdict in electing a representative parliament of their choice as reflected at an election, a person who claims he is responsible in freeing a person to allow him to contest the presidency and one who violates the fundamental norms of the judiciary to sit on a case while he is a respondent, should be allowed on a platform for democracy, is what those who organise such platforms should decide. If they want to have such an opportunist of high repute on their platform, it would only define what “democracy” they would want, after Rajapaksa.

But what is more important is, whether such persons should be allowed to go free without being challenged both legally and publicly, for breaching social trust, for compromising the integrity and reputation of high office and undermining the independence of the judiciary for possible personnel reasons. It is important too that a sound precedent is created on such issues of Public Interest. At least for the future.

Video: Ex-CJ says if not for his order Mahinda won’t be President today

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Video: Ex-CJ says if not for his order Mahinda won’t be President today WATCH    Former Chief Justice Sarath N. Silva said yesterday that President Mahinda Rajapaksa would not have become the President of Sri Lanka if not for the Supreme Court ruling to release him in the Helping Hambantota case. Mr. Silva said Mahinda Rajapaksa would not have either been able to contest the  2005 Presidential election or come into power if the Supreme Court bench headed by him did not clear Mahinda Rajapaksa of allegations of misappropriation of Tsunami funds. “We did this expecting Mahinda Rajapaksa in turn would safeguard the rights of the other people but it is not happening today,” the former CJ claimed.   “There are many complaints that it was I who was responsible to bring Rajapaksa into power. I admit it since Mahinda Rajapaksa was freed to become president because of this decision by the Supreme Court,” he said. “President Rajapaksa is now able to carry out wrongful acts because of the order we delivered then,” Silva said.   Following the Tsunami disaster on December 26, 2004, Sri Lanka received goodwill and financial aid from many foreign countries and in the absence of then President Chandrika Kumaratunga who was on a foreign visit, Mahinda Rajapaksa as the prime minister handled the funds received immediately. The police initiated investigations against the then prime minister Rajapaska sequel to a complaint made by UNP MP Kabir Hashim that he was siphoning off Tsunami funds into a  private account. Hashim alleged that Rajapaksa was committing a criminal breach of trust and criminal misappropriation. (Susitha R. Fernando)

Student murders : here is the culprit –‘Major’ Tissa ten times remanded to get MaRa’s ‘blessings’
(Lanka-e-News-16.Oct.2012, 1.30PM) In the photograph herein is Major R S D Tissa the Presidential security division assassin who gave protection to the suspect in the University student double murder at dawn on 27th September at Imbulgoda . This being a photograph of his in 2008 , now his looks have changed.

Lanka e news frankly and fearlessly exposed earlier that the murderer , Arachchi Saralage Milinga Prabath Sanjeewa alias ‘Rail pare Sanjeewa’, the underworld member after killing the students most brutally , traveled to clock tower junction by another vehicle where he was picked up by Major Tissa in his (President’s security division )PSD jeep and taken away – read our news item on 5th October captioned ‘the major who gave protection to student murders exposed’ . What were the PSD Jeep and motor cycles doing in that area on that fateful night the day on which the students were murdered ? we questioned. 
We reported as follows : 

Since midnight before the dawn of 27th September at Malwatte junction between Yakkala and Nittambuwa there had been two suspicious jeeps stationed . Those within the jeep had told the police mobile security service of that area that they are of the PSD . At about the same time two suspicious motor cycles had also been noticed stationed at Railway cross road , Veyangoda by another police night patrol . When they were questioned , they had also told they are of the PSD , and the police officers have recorded this.

Based on our probe , it has come to light that this despicable Major in this photograph , had been in the driving seat of the PSD jeep on that night . He has also been identified as the individual who took murderer ‘rail pare Sanjeewa’ into his jeep at clock Tower junction. 

This Major Tissa is not really a member of the Army . He is a ‘Major’ for Mahinda mahathaya’s murder operations. He has been in remand on over ten occasions. So , after this murderer was enrolled into the Mahinda Mahathaya’s Pathala Security division this ‘ maha jara’ has been given a title ‘Major’ . In other words this ‘Maha jara’ has not become a major by being recruited to the Army and passing examinations. His native place is Elahera , Dehiwaththa , where he is known as ‘Podi Tissa’ 

This ‘maha jara’ major is taken by the President MaRa when he even goes abroad. He is one of those in the PSD murder squads .As already revealed by us earlier , by now the PSD has been completely transformed into a para military illegal force. Although they are supposedly under the Army Commander , the recruitments are not made abiding by the army rules . Amy Commander’s orders don’t apply to them. As pointed out by us in our earlier report , the mandatory requirement of finger print being taken and registered with the Govt. finger print registrar are waived in respect of these PSD ‘ maha jaras’ of MaRa edespite the fact that every one joining the security forces has to fulfill this inescapable requirement . The finger prints of these PSD paramilitary members are neither taken nor registered with the finger print registrar’s Dept.

Lanka e news is probing whether this ‘maha jara’ major Tissa of the PSD murder squad was also linked to the recent assault launched on JSC Secretary Manjula Thilakaratne, by providing security to those assailants .

Now that his putrid antecedence is widely known , we urge the public to communicate to us of whatever information you have of this ‘maha jara’ Major pertaining to his criminal activities.