(Lanka-e-News- 07.Nov.2015, 11.00PM) A group that turned brutal among the officers who were recruited to the Sri Lanka army during the period of the LTTE war are inflicting torment and torture on efficient army officers and those newly recruited , based on authentic information reaching Lanka e news.
The episode that takes the first and foremost place among those many , relates to the death of Lahiru Ranjanage , the most talented cadet officer at the army science faculty at Diyatalawa.Relatives have cited many valid reasons which repudiate the report of the army that Lahiru committed suicide.
The nation treats the false report of the army as most reprehensible and dangerous because those responsible for the crime and to be feared are still holding sway withiin the army. It is well to recall that the mass murder committed at Murasuvil, Jaffna came to light only in court , when that crime was suppressed . That mass murder was camouflaged and the picture was painted that those were carcasses of goats.
Therefore , it is a most crucial question whether Lahiru committed suicide because he could not endure the torture he suffered? Did he die of head injuries because of assault ? The answers to these questions can be found only via an independent investigation . Then , why isn’t such an investigation being launched? Mind you Lahiru is not a terrorist to deserve this punishment , rather he is a most talented cadet officer of the army itself .
The second episode :
An old boy of Royal College and a most skilled rugby player who was attached to the Gajaba regiment as a new recruit was subjected to cruelties and worst torture by the barbaric uncouth superior officers . When the victim turned unconscious after being subjected to torture , he was taken and just cast aside on the thoroughfare while he was in his uniform .It is only because of the intervention of a kind gentleman this recruit was admitted to Narahenpita military hospital.
When this incident too was concealed and camouflaged via the conspiracies of the cruel bestial uncouth officers of the regiment , the people joined hands with the parents and relatives of the victim to demand justice and fair play.
Some years ago a similar incident took place at Thalawa rifle camp . There , a new recruit, a Lieutenant was forced to drink strong liquor in excess , and his head was shaved by the uncouth bestial offiicers of the camp. After having failed to kill him by drowning and when he became unconscious , these brutal ruthless officers brought and dumped him at the Thalawa railway station at about 12.00 midnight . In that incident too , a kind hearted gentleman had informed the victim’s parents , and with his assistance the new recruit was dispatched to the Fort railway station unharmed..
The numerous reports of such ghastly incidents of human cruelty inflicted by these bestial barbaric officers who are apparently suffering from psychotic traits because they were not rehabilitated following the war , makes one to think that this evil psychotic army officers are not confined to one regiment but to all sections of the army.
A father of a new recruit as Lieutenant to the Wijayabahu infantry regiment speaking to the writer said with grave concern , that he is hearing so many stories of such brutalities and torture that he has come to the point of contemplating terminating his son’s services from the army even by paying money.
One more in this series of brutalities and crimes is the incident in which Embilipitiya maha vidyalaya students (boys and girls) were taken to the military rifle camp that was situated at the Embilipitiya paper factory , and killed after being tortured , most brutally raped and molested .The bodies of the victims were later deposited at Sooriyakande . The country cannot expunge this disgraceful inhuman conduct of the members of the forces from its history nor from the memories of the people as humans. Neither can these brutal and bestial crimes be condoned .It is noteworthy that because rewards and awards were given to those officers who were bootlicking the superior officers and even ready to serve as their spittoons , and not to those who proved their mettle in the battlefield , these talented and skilled new officers left the forces , leaving the rifle regiment to the drunkards and barbaric brutes who are now holding sway over the regiment whle serving as spittoons and lackeys of the superiors. Recently ,because of the rigged investigation conducted against two Captain Udagedera and Captain Wellangiriya of one unit , both these captains who are new recruits faced injustice. The investigation was so unfairly conducted with the sole objective of saving the wrongdoers that these two captains who were the aggrieved party had to suffer further persecution and injustice.
Major Sampath Muthumala the demented psychotic who was the key figure in the crimes cum notorious drunkard (he exhibits his drunkenness proudly in the face book ), instead of being meted out punishment was appointed to the army operations Director board. Based on this move , doubts have sprung up whether the army ‘s latest dastardly operation is aimed at expelling the new most capable and talented officers from the army ?
Following these disastrous moves and destructive manoeuvers , whereby criminals are getting recognition and promotions, these senior officers suffering from dementia and paranoia who stand to gain thereby are in the process of mounting false charges against the new officers , and tainting their personal files with those charges.
Simultaneously they have started tormenting and traumatising these new officers. For instance married officers are not allowed to take leave to visit their children and family.
In the circumstances , the people who are pro good governance are in a quandary to understand how persident Maithripala Sirisena as the president of the country and the commanding chief of the armed forces is authorising the promotions and appointments of these brutal , bestial and uncouth officers , while also claiming his sole and whole cherished goal is good governance and none else.
By a soldier
Translated by Jeff
A copy of the letter sent by the aforementioned army officers who were victims of brutal torture is appended. It can be magnified before reading .
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