Matale mass graves are of 1987 -90 period : Gota, Shavendra and Balasuriya must be immediately interrogated therefore

(Lanka-e-News -28.March.2013, 11.00PM) The bones and skulls in the well known mass grave which were discovered at the Matale hospital premises when the land was dug to construct a respiratory unit had now been confirmed as belonging to bodies buried during the period 1987 - 1990 based on the carbon date detection test as revealed to the courts .. During the excavations carried out since November 23rd , bones and skulls of 154 persons had been retrieved. It is to be noted that this is the largest amount of bones that had been discovered from any one of the mass graves in SL. The report forwarded to the court was prepared by Prof. Raj Somadeva and his team of the Kelaniya University post graduate division, and it was their assignment to ensure when this truly occurred , what was the age of the bones and how these individuals came by their deaths. Accordingly. they had ascertained the period when this occurred , and have also confirmed these deaths were not a result of a landslide or infectious diseases. The JVP MP Anura Kumara Disanayake who held a media briefing in this connection stated as follows : The heads of some of the dead had not come off naturally . Similarly the arms and legs had also not got disjointed naturally . They have been severed by cutting. They have got detached at the places where the bones join. It is therefore evident that these are victims who had been killed most cruelly by torture. There is evidence that nails and iron needles have been pierced into those bodies, he asserted, Dissanayake emphasized. As it has been proved that this incident has occurred during the period 1987 -1990 , and the security divisions were empowered to bury bodies without the main inquest into deaths , the security chiefs in charge of Matale shall be interrogated. The army officer in charge of Matale at that time was Gotabaya Rajapakse , the present defense secretary who was an army colonel at that time. The subordinate officer of his was Shavendra De Silva, a close sidekick of Gota. The latter had his meals daily at Shavendra’s parental house. Mahinda Balasuriya ex IGP was the police officer in charge of this district at that period. It was also Balasuriya who shot and killed Roshan Chanaka a laborer when he participated in an unarmed demonstration at Katunayake , and later sacrificed his IGP post for the sake of Gotabaya. Gota and Shavendra are already tainted by war crime charges. The charges leveled against the two of them are, their giving orders to kill the Tamil civilians , infants and LTTE soldiers who surrendered. With the confirmation of the period of these mass graves, it is apparent that the two of them must answer for the genocide committed on the Sinhalese civilians before they are held responsible for the genocide of the Tamil civilians. The most comic feature of these events is when ‘youngest brother was killing ruthlessly the Sinhalese in the south, Elder brother though crawling on all fours sped to Geneva human rights Council with records of human killings in the south. Sri Lanka denies tampering with BBC broadcasts March 28, 2013 | AFP/AFP/File - Market vendors listen to the radio in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo, 02 November 2007. Sri Lanka's state broadcaster on Thursday denied meddling with BBC programmes after the British corporation abruptly suspended FM radio feeds to the country, alleging ongoing interference  less Sri Lanka's state broadcaster on Thursday denied meddling with BBC programmes after the British corporation abruptly suspended FM radio feeds to the country, alleging ongoing interference. The BBC said on Tuesday that it was suspending its World Service FM broadcasts owing to "continued interruption and interference" in its Tamil programming, but the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation denies any tampering. "We have not jammed the programme or edited it," chairman Hudson Samarasinghe told AFP. "They stopped the feed. They have not informed me why they did it," he said. The BBC said its Tamil service was jammed on March 16, 17 and 18, prompting warnings to the Sri Lankan broadcaster that it was in breach of their agreement. After another disruption on Monday, the BBC suspended the service. The BBC said that listeners in Sri Lanka could still access the BBC on shortwave and via its website. The BBC suspended its FM programming in Sri Lanka in similar circumstances in February 2009, during the height of fighting between troops and Tamil Tiger rebels. Sri Lanka lifted a state of emergency in 2011, but media rights groups say journalists have been forced to self-censor their work due to fear of attacks. Rights groups say at least 17 journalists and media workers have been killed in the country in the past decade. Many Sri Lankan journalists have also fled the island fearing violence. The country is currently ranked 162 out of 179 countries in the press freedom index compiled by the Paris-based non-profit group, Reporters without Borders.