The scene: office of an important person located at Rajakeeya Mawatha, opposite the Royal College, Colombo. The time: 10 p m on Monday.
The Provo Martial of the Military Police Brigadier Wijesri enters the Office with authority. He is accompanied by Maj Gen S R Manawaduge, Commandant of Western Province and Puttalam, and the Colonel of the Commando Regiment. The police top echelons are also present.
The Provo Martial of the Military Police Brigadier has an important assignment on hand, that was already talk of the town. Only the timing was not known and how was not known.
The million dollar assignment is carrying out the state’s order—the arrest of the former Army Commander and the Chief of Defence Staff. Sarath Fonseka, the unsuccessful presidential candidate.
As the military top brass enter the office, Mano Ganeshan leader of the Democratic Peoples Front , Somawansa Amarasinghe, Leader of the Janatha Vimukthi Perumuna, Rauff Hakeem, Leader of the Muslim Congress, and Retired Police Captain Senaka Arnold Haripriya de Silva alias Captain Shah Silva are seated there.
The Army asks the political associates who are there to leave the place for them to perform their military duties without any let or hindrance. Nay, it was an order.
While the politicians refused to leave the premises, Captain Shah Silva starts abusing the Army officers in filthy language and begins to curse the Sri Lankan President, Asian Tribune learnt.
He was arrested and handed over to the police who was wanted by them, as he was evading arrest.
At that time Sarath Fonseka was wearing a half sleeves white shirt, Brown color pant and also wearing shoes.
Subsequently, the Provo Martial of the Military Police Brigadier Wijesri informs politely to Sarath Fonseka about his impending arrest.
Asian Tribune learnt that Sarath Fonseka demands that he should be arrested only by the Police.
Even though there are leading police personnel present along with the Army personnel, Brigadier Wijesri, the head of the Military Police says that they have come to make a military arrest and reads out charges against him.
The main charges are:
• Politicking whilst in uniform
• Conspiring against the Commander-in-Chief whilst in Service,
• Harboring more than 1,500 deserters whilst on service,
• And corrupt practices in relating to military procurements
After reading out the charges the Military Police chief requests Sarath Fonseka to follow them to the vehicle to be taken out.
As Sarath Fonseka refuses to cooperate with Military Officers who came for his arrest on the orders of the Commander of the Sri Lanka Army, and started to abuse the officers in utter filth as usual, the Army Officers told Asian Tribune that they had to force carry him to the vehicle.
As he is force carried, by the armymen, Asian Tribune learnt that later Sarath Fonseka agrees to walk the distance to the vehicle and so he was allowed to walk.
The former Army Commander was taken in a bullet-proof land rover and Asian Tribune learnt ultimately he has been lodged in one of the quarters located at the Sri Lanka Navy Head Quarters.
- Asian Tribune -
Comments
Mr Fonseka seems to have
Mr Fonseka seems to have mostly collected all the dissident, insecure, misinformed & ignorant people in Lanka under his 'Swan' hat ....!
all this was backed by whom, and from whom did the money come for his campaign ? What part did the hidden ltte rump play in all this ?
Flirting with Politics and Challenging the State
This is what the General was asking for when he kept challenging the State, and was provoked by his Opposition mates into a shrill and continuing inability to accept his defeat at what was perhaps the most orderly and scrutinized Presidential Election in Sri Lanka.
No country, be it the UK. US, Canada, Australia, France, Germany, Norway etc., etc.,..would have tolerated the kind of behavior the General was displaying for too long without military law kicking into place. What a sad story for a hero who allowed ambition to eclipse all else; spearheading divisions within the military and making pacts with any and every political faction in order to win. Any of the political factions would have sacrificed the general for their own ends without batting an eyelash. But he was too blinded by ambition to see through their cunning and machinations.
This drama will now continue with the Opposition combo trying to bring in the "street game" as their last resort.
Army deserters case is the
Army deserters case is the most worrisome. JVP must be having a big hand in this. I speculate that JVP might have planted them in the army to get the necessary training for their 3rd revolution. With the diminishing grass root level support this is a handy way of having a force. And the JVP, SF coalition couldn't be a random affair.
Was not Prez Rajapakse the
Was not Prez Rajapakse the one who was always so determined to get the support of the JVP WHILE SHUNNING POLITICAL PARTIES that would have been more amenable to working with him in a more cooperative manner? We hope Prez Rajapakse has finally learned a lesson.
Anyone with basic common sense would have known that the country cannot move forward and also enable all communities to live together peacefully if the GoSL is expecting the JVP to support its agenda. Prez Rajapakse should have the basic common sense to understand with whom he needs to form political alliances in order to move the country forward.
A fish dies because of its
A fish dies because of its mouth. The destiny for SF is the same. He was trying to reveal military secrets at the very beginning of the election campaign. Once he was defeated with very big margin, he got mad and started bulling. He should be sent to Angoda for treatment.