(Lanka-e-News -23.Oct.2016, 10.00PM) The retired sergeant major Jayamanne who is supposed to have committed suicide after leaving a note in connection with the murder of Lasantha Wickremetunge, on the day of murder had been at a place 100 kilometers away from the venue where Lasantha was murdered , police investigations have revealed , said Ajith Perera , the deputy minister of power and renewable energy.
The minister made this disclosure when he attended a workshop conducted for the UNP members at Bandaragama.
''During the Rajapakse administration, because Sunday Leader newspaper editor Lasantha was continuously writing against Rajapakses and exposing the robberies in detail , and how during the war the country was pillaged and plundered by them supported with facts and figures most truthfully , the Rajapakses who were enraged killed Lasantha.
Not only did they keep way from conducting an investigation into Lasantha’s murder , they concocted and propagated all false stories about it.
At this juncture , when our efficient police are investigating this and are tracking down the culprits , and when it is in the final stage , a retired individual who was in the intelligence service of the forces suddenly dies. In order to rescue the suspect who is in incarceration , writes a note that , ‘ I killed Lasantha’ before he died.
Such mysterious deaths are likely after committing a wrong because of mental torment or before being arrested . But at that moment writing a letter and leaving it is suspicion ridden , and anybody is bound to suspect it . Therefore people are asking whether he died due to hanging or he was hanged after killing?’
By now it has come to light based on the investigations so far , this individual who supposedly committed suicide was in his village on the day Lasantha was murdered. That is about 100 kilometers away. Based on his phone call details this has been uncovered.
Hence it is most intriguing how that individual could say he killed Lasantha when he has been 100 kilometers away from the place where Lasantha was murdered on that fateful day. Suspicions have therefore been aroused. Hence , it is a reasonable doubt that those who committed the murder then are now committing more murders to conceal the crime. Following the investigations , based on the latest developments, we are led to suspect justifiably that those who killed even though are sans power now , are still continuing with their killings in order to mislead the investigators and the public.''
(Thanks to Nayanadula Sendanayake – Lankadeepa)
Translated by Jeff
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All authorities including the Hon. president and prime minister, please act quickly and wisely, if not you will loose other valuable evidence and the killer and the people who ordered the killing will escape. Thats a bigger crime.
-- by Saman on 2016-10-24
The officer concerned was an army intelligence officer. So he knows the danger of taking his mobile phone when going on a mission like that. Therefore he kept that home without switching it off. Most probably he was planning to use the same point if he was arrested. Our foolish minister did not realise that, they have only the mouth not the brains.. Anyway now we know what type of people rule our country. May God bless our country..
-- by Clement Perera on 2016-10-25
