Words, Memory And History

| by Tisaranee Gunasekara

“Political rights have been preserved by traitors….the liberty of the mind by heretics.”Robert G Ingersoll (The Great Infidels)

( May 25, 2014, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Brigadier Deshapriya Gunawardane, the officer who led Operation Weliweriya, has a new job – Military Attaché of the Lankan Embassy in Turkey .

Brigadier Gunawardane and three Lieutenant-Colonels implicated in the Weliweriya killings were suspended, with fanfare, in late August 2013 and reinstated, with stealthy silence, eight months later. Now, according to the illegally-censored website Sri Lanka Mirror, Brigadier Gunawardane will join a select band of military-favourites who adorn Lankan embassies across the world.

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