No reason to create ‘Aava’: Gotabaya
Former defence secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa said yesterday that there was no reason for the Army or Military Intelligence to create a gang like ‘Aava’— though Health Minister and Cabinet Spokesman Rajitha Senaratne had alleged that Mr. Rajapaksa had created the gang.
Mr. Rajapaksa said Minister Senaratne had made a direct accusation against the army and military intelligence.
“There was no reason for the army or for army intelligence to create a gang like ‘Aava’. Under previous governments, they used to disarm paramilitary organisations like the Eelam People’s Democratic Party (EPDP) and the People’s Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam (PLOTE). We didn’t want to create new groups,” he said.
“We should remember that such statements will only increase the allegations against the Sri Lanka Army. Now Tamil politicians are also trying to make allegations, taking advantage of those statements,” he said.
“I‘m not behind the ‘Aava’ group. I’m no longer in charge of the security forces and there are no intelligence units now. I have no authority to investigate such matters,” he said.
“There is no need to refute Minister Senaratne, because the answers to such questions should be given by President Maithripala Sirisena, the present Defence Secretary and the Commanders of the Armed Forces,” he said.
(Source: Daily Mirror – By Chaturanga Pradeep and Indika Sri Aravinda)
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Y has policies that manifested before they were elected has fallen well below expectation. Sirisena on one occasioned claimed that the reason R went into the polls was because the government was on the verge of bankruptcy the sort of intelligence that he must have passed down to the coalition party hierarchy.
The parties led by ravi, nagala and dissanayake were mobilized to undermine the R family to achieve this end they mobilized local and national intelligence services at colossal costs to find any tangible evidence and looked into wiki leaks and panama papers in the process the outcome of which is no secret.
While this was going on Ranil and most likely backed by Sirisena wanted to set up a police state with no vision as to what it ought to be doing by way of hounding the R but the house was divided on as to how it ought to have got about doing in. In fact they sought the advise of the United nations to victimize the Rajapaksa . Unfortunately SL is no Congo nor Kosovo where they did well to undermine
existing democracies.
Meanwhile Ranil Sirisena spends more time balancing the Y coalition the wickramasinghe with his backers are on a spree robbing whatever where ever possible and the best yet is the great Central Bank robbery even bigger than the Bangladeshi scam of 100 million dollars.
While the joint opposition is planning another led by anura dissanayakae a supporter of the Y coalition ranil will plan an exodus lest they will be prosecuted tried and jailed
The governments biggest problem is as to how the defence forces be brought under control for Goatbhayas moles are in the army navy and the air force and remove their influence would take more than a generation by which time even guys like would be senile
How can they get any thing right when basic stuff like keeping the streets clean can not be achieved. Sri Lanka was looking very clean and tidy and people from all walks of life were commenting on the great job done by The Rajapakse’s. Now the streets are back to where we were . Shame on you. RW and MY3
Yielding the big stick to get streets and garbage cleaned workers who are in the first instance, paid by the taxpayer is incorrect approach. The stick was yielded by no less than a strongman, a top official paid top salary for his job.
In SL, the entire public and utilities sectors are corrupt to the core. There’s hardly any discipline. From Head of Department to the peon all indulge in bribery and corruption, no one officer is excluded.
Cleaners are not provided with adequate tools and training to do their job. The officers in public service and the utilities are not managed in terms of performance. There are no checks and balances and no process to follow.
Majority of officers are political appointees. They cannot be held accountable.
A strongman yielding a stick will work only as long as the strongman is in office. What a disaster.
Suggest that all cleaning and disposal services be outsourced with an appropriate reduction in Government and Utilities. The agencies who win the work should be performance managed and be remunerated based on performance.
The AAVA or whatever it is, is just another machination of the supremacist Government to suppress the minorities.
Since 1948, the Northern and Eastern Provinces have been under Military Rule. Allegations of genocide arise form the brutality of Military Rule.
Ever since the turncoat Col Karuna ran into the arms of the Sinhala Buddhist rulers, he has been terrorising the population in the East.
Why are the Sinhala Buddhist rulers in both the MR1 and MR2 regimes friendly towards Col Karuna (WHO MASSACRED 600 POLICEMEN AND ORGANISED THE DALADA MALIGAWA ATTACK) and KP (the Chief Alms Procurer for the Late VP) ????
Mr Thuleepan Somasundaram. Your are the person who suppress Tamil minority by having these silly ideas. Just because you personally could not archive anything you keep blaming the goverment.
This goes to some Sinhalese as well. Keep blaming the existing goverment ( what ever the goverment) just because of there failure.
What ever the goverment including the one you think of forming in Tamil areas will be corrupted. So I want say if you cannot beat them join them. Do some thing positive so that Tamil people get some respect from Sinhalese people. We are not getting anywhere like this. So many innocent poor Tamil and Sinhalese people are sufferance from these conflicts.
Sri Lanka is a small country and you cannot have different goverment or laws according to the ethnic minorities. It is not bad as you say how the Sri Lanken goverment treat minorities.
If you respect us we respect you and if you are peaceful with us we are peaceful with you as well. It is simply like that.
Mr. T. Somasundaram, You said, ‘Why are the Sinhala Buddhist rulers in both the MR1 and MR2 regimes friendly towards Col Karuna (WHO MASSACRED 600 POLICEMEN AND ORGANISED THE DALADA MALIGAWA ATTACK) and KP (the Chief Alms Procurer for the Late VP)?’.
Well, can you please get permission from IC, Human Right Groups and UNOHCHR to hang Karuna and KP in public.
Daer Mr Amarakoon.,
Permission from universal bullshitters is not required to prosecute Karuna and KP.
In fact, GOSL had a Red Interpol Alert on KP before he was ‘captured’and brought to SL, which eventually led to his bosom pal-ship with GR.
This KP has control over billions of dollars worth of former LTTE funds. These funds have been worming their way into offshore accounts of big people. The illegal wealth has not been exhausted. The funds are continuing to find new homes in offshore accounts.
See what Karuna has been doing; ask your Military Intelligence (trustworthy) to produce a report on Karuna. There’s evidence out in the Internet on the atrocities caused by Karuna while he was No 2 to the Late VP and continuing to this day.
Amarakoon,
There’s a Sinhala Buddhist occupying the office of the Attorney General. He can get all the evidence he wants within a couple of days to successfully prosecute KP and Karuna. Once the Courts decide on the fate of these traitors, no international do-gooders can compalin. In fact, to be on the safe side, invite observers from the do-gooders to participate in the trial.
The prosecution of KP and Karuna will add to the bonding of relationships between the Tamil and Sinhala Buddhist communities.
Well Mr. T. Somasundaram!:
1. Why you counting only Money? what about thousands of Tamil Children Kidnapped, brain washed put a cyanide capsule around their neck and sent to war front and got killed, lost their child hood for Eelam dream. When Tamil Diaspora who funded LTTE operations continue to live in the west and send their kids to good schools. Why you don’t you ask them to be prosecuted?
2. Why you only targeting Sinhala Buddhists? What about Muslims and Christian Sinhalese?
3. Military Intelligence??? Yahapalanaya already discarded MI. Isn’t it.
4. What about asking UK government to deport Adelede Balasingham to Sri Lanka to be prosecuted for war crimes?
5. Tamils is Sri Lanka can start a Hartal asking Yahapalanaya to use Military Intelligence again and prosecute Karuna & KP.