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Sri Lanka: One Island Two Nations
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?????????????????????????????????????????????????Monday, July 17, 2017
Certain details in article relating to me are false – Poddala Jayantha
Responding
to an article we published on 12 July, senior journalist Poddala
Jayantha has sent us a response, of which an English translation brief
is given below.
Poddala Jayantha says in the letter from New York that ex-defence
secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa had never told him that he was a bastard
dog and that his beard would be cut, gagged on his mouth and that limbs
would be broken.
It was true that Gotabhaya had summoned the then association president
Sanath Balasuriya and himself through Bandula Padmakumara to his office
and threatened them of trouble if the protests ongoing at the time were
not stopped.
When asked who would do that, an enraged Gotabhaya responded that that would be seen then and there.
He accused them of having appeared for Iqbal Athas, and when asked why
his protection was withdrawn, Gotabhaya said that they had failed
sometimes because before an operation began, he wrote everything about
it beforehand.
The then defence secretary was told that top military officers sat
together to plan operations and that Athas did not attend those
meetings, and that he was given information by those who attended the
meetings. Stop leaking the information and don’t take revenge from
Iqbal, they told him.
Gotabhaya again lost his temper and turning to Lakshman, inquired from him as to who would have fathered them.
They told him that their parents were poor, but that they had a good upbringing.
Jayantha says exaggeration is uncalled for and asks us to confirm facts
before writing articles, since he has given a very clear statement to
the CID regarding the matter.
Editor’s note:
If the reporter does any exaggeration in reporting that happens without
prejudicing the victims. In the art of crime reporting, basing 100 per
cent of what had happened would benefit the criminals, as his lawyers
would use them to their client’s advantage.
Therefore, we are consciously bound to avoid such situations. Our end
objective is to ensure justice to the victim even through exaggeration
to some extent. We thank you for revealing things unknown to the reader.