Good work of LTTE

By Helasingha Bandara

(February 19, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Premadasa ordered his death squads to murder thousands of opponents with the hope of living for at least three thousand years. Ronnie Gunasingha dragged Richard de Soyza out of his house in front of his mother, to be murdered later, with the hope of becoming at least the IGP. Both of them ate soil in less than three years of Richard’s death, let alone three thousand years.

Leel Pathirana’s article ‘Richard a perfect human being ‘that appeared in Asian Tribune on 18 February 2009 implies a divine intervention in delivering justice for Manorani Saravanamuttu Soyza , the bereaved mother of Richard de Soyza and thousands of other mothers including mine. I am grateful to the LTTE for delivering justice in the place of politicians (governments) who followed the UNP rule who failed to deliver such justice. Sad to exclude God and his divine intervention as three of the killers are still at large despite eye witness evidence. What a law abiding country Sri Lanka is and where is God!

Richard was a talent rarely found among us. Illiterate Premadasa and his murderers could not even imagine the worth of a person of Richard’s Calibre. I have met him a few times at the University on his visits to talk about drama. Yes he was perfect. His looks, Charisma, Skills, and personality all that contributed to his perfectness. We had only two good news readers in English those days that we could be proud of as Sri Lankans, Richard de Soyza and Ravi John. Sadly we have lost both. The former to the evil political ambitions of an illiterate man and the latter to natural causes.

With the arrival of Chandrika as the head of state after 17 years of brutal rule of the UNP we all expected her to deliver justice to all mothers whose children died at the hands of animals of the UNP including Vijaya Kumaranathunga’s and mine. Nothing happened and the killers still roam the towns and cities of Sri Lanka freely. None the less, the honour of disciplining the police and the armed forces has to be attributed to Chandrika. Most people agree that during her time people enjoyed freedom of thought and speech without endangering their lives.

The strange thing about the ‘Loken Utum Rata’ is that whoever comes to power would not probe into murder and corruption. The politicians and their cronies irrespective of which party they belong to, as long as it is the ruling party, make hay while sun shines not thinking about any future repercussions. In a lawless country no one fears the law because no one can throw the first stone. The politicians while in power have the absolute freedom to kill and indeed get away with that. In the countries that are occupied by civilised nations murder cases are not closed until they are absolutely certain the cases get nowhere. Some murderers are brought to justice even after 40 years.

For Rajapaksha in his mission to go to history books with a clean slate it is not too late to investigate credible cases of late eighties and other recent ones. It is not late to get the country rid of killers and the corrupt. There is no place on earth better than one in which there is law and order. Killers like Ranchagoda and Deva Surendra, if let loose, will continue to kill. Ranil and the UNP hierarchy may be waiting to get the next opportunity to use such killers.

The LTTE are renowned for murdering people and have invoked hatred upon themselves from many quarters for their murder instinct. There is a silver lining in every dark cloud. The annihilation of Premadasa and Ronnie Gunasingha is such a silver lining of LTTE’s dark history.
-Sri Lanka Guardian