Captain Bharatha accepted contracts to kill people

Sunday, 22 January 2012

Commanding Officer of the Matara Army Camp, Captain Bharatha Kodituwakku is a person who accepts contracts for murder for political reasons, it has been revealed.

Details about Captain Bharatha Kodituwakku has been received us following a story published in the website about STF personnel who had attempted to murder a jailed suspect being apprehended.

The story stated that the persons who had tried to murder the suspect were four STF personnel. However, a senior STF officer told us that the four persons apprehended were not STF personnel and that the four assassins had been sent by the Commanding Officer of the Matara Army Camp, Captain Bharatha Kodituwakku.

The STF officer said the four persons who were apprehended were attached to the Matara Army camp and gave us information about many rackets and crimes of the Matara Commanding Officer carried out in the Southern areas.

Up on inquiry it was revealed that the two persons who had tried to kill suspect Madhush Lakshan while being taken from the prison to the Negombo courthouse on the 18^th are Army soldiers. The two soldiers were apprehended when they tried to flee after their attempt to kill the suspect failed.

However, the police investigation into the attempt to murder suspect Madhush Lakshan has been stalled due to political pressure.

Madhush Lakshan is the main suspect in the murder of former Southern Provincial Council Minister Danny Hittettiyage. He has also been accused of murdering several other persons and attacking opposition politicians on contracts.

He has told several persons who had visited him that he would reveal details about all these incidents soon. A friend of Lakshan’s family said the attempt to kill him may have been prompted by this comment.

The Captain who has ordered Lakshan’s murder is a close follower of UPFA MP Namal Rajapaksa. He has unleashed terror in the Matara District for political requirements and has attacked many opposition political activists in the area.

Although the Matara Police have received many complaints about these incidents, the investigations have been stalled due to Namal Rajapaksa’s intervention.

The Captain’s brother Moorthi Kodituwakku is one of Namal Rajapaksa’s coordinating secretaries.

The Captain is engaged in many illegal activities in the Matara area abusing these political powers and has also commenced a Matara-Colombo bus service called Somawathi without receiving the proper approval.