Government proves murder of journalists is unstoppable -police suppresses information that Mel is a journalist


(Lanka-e-News- 02.Feb.2014, 10.30PM) Following the return of President Rajapakse from his foreign tour, every opportunity that was offered to him on the platter in view of an important international Geneva conference that is in the offing, was allowed to go begging with the gory slaying of an international journalist at the crucial juncture. Just when the Geneva international human rights conference is around the corner and where a resolution is going to be adopted against SL, an internationally renowned journalist (female) was killed most brutally this morning. The deceased is Kalubowilage Melsia Gunasekera alias Mel Gunasekera.

She had been a correspondent for French news service on economics and research relating to SL until 2012. She was also a reporter for Sunday times and an Editor of Lanka business on line originally. Currently she had been working for the US Fitch rating agency.

She was living with her parents and brother at Battaramulla , and she is a 40 year old spinster .When her parents had gone to church since it was a Sunday, she had been alone in the house this morning . The murderer had in fact come in search of the victim to the house based on evidence . 

When her parents returned from church they had been shocked to see blood stains in the veranda ,and her body had been dragged to the center of the house. There were cut and chop marks caused by a sharp weapon on her neck and body. 

The cold blooded murder had taken place between 6.30 and 8.50 in the morning. The parents have informed the police emergency unit on 119 at 8.50 a.m. ,but the police had arrived only at 11.20 a.m. When the information of this heinous crime was passed immediately to the IGP commanding chamber and his information room , though the name , address and age had been recorded , her profession had been omitted in the record.

Interestingly and intriguingly , DIG Sumith Edirisinghe of western south Colombo division had informed the SSP Nugegoda office not to mention that the victim is a journalist. It is learnt that this is on the orders of criminal defense secretary Gotabaya.

Accordingly , in the statements recorded by the senior police inspector K C W Wickremesinghe OIC of Talangama police station under whose purview this incident comes and the OIC crimes division D R D Atapattu SI , it is not mentioned that the deceased is a journalist. The statement had been recorded in the heinous crime register 68/ 2014 of the Talangama police.

As is always the case under the lawless reign of the Rajapakses , no suspect has been apprehended so far.

When looking back on the history of the countless murders committed under this regime , it is clear that the government had always taken advantage of situations like this to allay any suspicion being directed against it , like in the timing of the present murder when people would doubt whether the government will commit such a ghastly murder when it has to face and answer at the Geneva human rights conference which is government’s biggest bugbear, is close at hand.

Meanwhile one suspect arrested by the police in the evening at Hanwella who was a painter.