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Sri Lanka: One Island Two Nations
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Thiranjala Weerasinghe sj.- One Island Two Nations
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Now the country is not at war: I do not understand how Rajapakse can argue that he needs more Security and privileges than I do -CBK
(Lanka-e-News-
06.May.2017, 11.50PM) The former president Chandrika Bandaranaike
Kumarathunaga issues a statement regarding Mahinda Rajapakse's Security
Detail as follows
The Regularisation of Hon. Mahinda Rajapakse's Security Detail
I watched with amusement the agitation of the Joint Opposition MP's
regarding the reduction of the Security accorded to Hon. Mahinda
Rajapakse.
It is pertinent to remind Hon. Rajapakse of the manner in which he
treated another former president and the Security he accorded her.
I retired in November 2005, while the civil war between the State of Sri
Lanka and the LTTE was going on. The LTTE issued several formal
statements announcing that they would attempt to assassinate Chandrika
even after her retirement, giving the main reason for this as the
take-over of Jaffna from the LTTE by the Kumaratunga Government and
clearing Jaffna of the LTTE, compelling the LTTE to limit themselves to
the smaller areas of Killinochchi and Mullativu.
The Special Committee of the Security Council studied my security needs
after retirement and suggested that I be given a Security detail of 300
personnel with the required vehicles and weaponry. Acting on my usual
principle of cutting down Government expenditure to the maximum, I
rejected the Security Council proposal and agreed to only 150 personnel
and 10 vehicles, including security vehicles.
In September 2007, 15 months after my retirement, President
Rajapakse and his brother Gotabhaya Rajapakse, who was responsible for
the entire security apparatus of the Sri Lankan State, instructed the
relevant authorities to withdraw every single one of my Security
personnel, all vehicles and weaponry. I was left without any Security
for two months.
Protests expressed by a few MP's of the UNP and several foreign
governments (ALL MP's and other representatives of the SLFP being
forbidden from talking to Chandrika Kumaratunga or taking up any issues
for her) compelled the Rajapakse Government to restore a small part of
her Security - 40 personnel in all and five vehicles in poor condition.
Until the present day my Security remains the same.
The Sirisena/Wickramasinghe did inform me that I could ask for more
Security. My Security has now been increased by only eight more Security
personnel.
At present the country is not at war, the security situation is
stable and I do not understand how Hon. Rajapakse can argue that he
needs more Security and privileges than I do.
I am not surprised that Hon. Mahinda Rajapakse is acting, as usual, as
if the country owes him and his family special privileges that need not
be given to any other Sri Lankan.
Signed:
Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga
Colombo, 6th May, 2017.
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