‘What we did to Kuttimani will be done to you too’: Jailors viciously and brutally attack Bogambara Tamil political prisoners with impunity

‘What we did to Kuttimani will be done to you too’: Jailors viciously and brutally attack Bogambara Tamil political prisoners with impunity

anka-e-news -18.June.2011, 11.45PM) Batticaloa Parliamentary member P . Ariyanenthran has by fax informed the President that a group of Tamil political prisoners serving sentences at the Bogambara prison have been ruthlessly and brutally assaulted by some Prison officers.

These officers who had launched this merciless assault on the 14th night have openly said , ‘ be watchful what was done to Kuttimani will be done to you too’. Kuttimani was a leader among the prisoners who were murdered en masse during the 1983 ‘black July’.
The Tamil prisoners who sustained injuries consequent upon this brutal assault are now taking treatment at the prison Hospital. Ramaiah Rupachandran (38), Weerasamai Sivasubramaniam (35) , Ganeshan Pushparaj (20), Ramaiah Devarasa ( 34) , R Shanmugaraj, Visvanathan Rameshkumar , Velu Yogaraja and Fernando are the political prisoners who have been admitted to the Hospital.

Ariyanenthran M P had demanded from the President an immediate inquiry into this brutality of the prison officers.
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Pumpkin thief pops out from inside Gota's gaping mouth: Who launched attacks on the Tamil MPs when President is out of the country ?

[Image](lanka-e-News -17.June.2011, 11.45PM) Defense Secretary Gotabaya Rajapakse bemoaned , it is very unfortunate that it is to the US Embassy that the first complaint was made in regard to the attacks launched on the Tamil MPs. He played down this attack belittling its importance while making this comment.

The Army in uniform stormed into the meeting yesterday where 6 Tamil National Alliance (TNA) MPs participated and when they tried to attack the MPs , the security detail of the MPs had tried to avert the attack . The assailants had then begun assaulting the security personnel and others who were present mercilessly with iron rods and clubs deliberately creating panic and pandemonium at the venue. Gotabaya Rajapakse speaking on this attack when attending a pinkama ceremony today (17) for soldiers at Nugegoda , made the comments noted in the above paragraph.

He went on to say , “some individuals in this country first rush to the American Embassy when anything happens in this country. There was a ‘trifling incident’ at Jaffna yesterday night . These individuals instead of going to the police have gone to the American Embassy. Those who question us first is the US Embassy. Some time ago when there was an incident at Katunayake , it was the German Embassy which sent me a letter on that episode”, Gotabaya added.

The TNA MPs however completely repudiated Gotabaya’s allegations as false. They said, they first made the complaint to the Telipallai police, Jaffna.; and not a single MP of theirs complained to the US Embassy.
Political analysts are of the view that these utterances of the defense Secretary are most obnoxious and deserving of absolute condemnation specially at a time when SL is in the deepest depths of despair in the backdrop of the advisory panel report of the UN on SL; the channel 4 documentary exposing the atrocities committed by the Army on the Tamil people thereby tarnishing the image of SL; the Tamil nadu chief Minister agitating for proposals to combat the injustice perpetrated on the Tamils in SL ; before the heat of Indian Tamil delegation which came to SL had settled ; and while the President Rajapakse is out of the country .

They compared the most responsible defense Secretary Gota who is exposing himself via his irresponsible utterances to the pumpkin thief in the children’s story books who got caught from the tell tale marks on his shoulder.