A Government With Blood On Its Hands

Sunday, March 11, 2012

By Frederica Jansz

According to a WikiLeaks cable this statement was made by Basil Rajapaksa, brother of and Advisor to the President, to then US Ambassador in Colombo Robert. O. Blake. Jnr.
The cable is classified as “CONFIDENTIAL” and recounts details of a meeting Blake had with Basil Rajapaksa on October 04, 2006. (See Cable)
Rajapaksa was referring to the murder of five Tamil students in Trincomalee on January 2, that year. (Read The Terrible Truth of the Trincomalee Tragedy by D. B. S. Jeyaraj elsewhere on these pages for a detailed account of what took place).

Speaking with remarkable candor to Robert Blake, Rajapaksa had in this instance admitted that members of Sri Lanka’s security forces namely the Special Task Force (STF) carried out an utterly diabolical extrajudicial killing of five young people.

The names and dates of birth of the five students killed on Janu ary 2, 2006 in Trincomalee are:

Manoharan Ragihar
22.09.1985

Yogarajah Hemachchandra 04.03.1985
Logitharajah Rohan
07.04.1985

Thangathurai Sivanantha
06.04.1985

Shanmugarajah Gajendran
16.09.1985

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