Army intelligence behind Lucky Algama killing!

 Mar 29, 2016

It has now been established that the Army intelligence is behind the killing of retired Maj. Gen. Lucky Algama at a UNP rally in Ja Ela on 18 December 1999. The confirmation comes in a report submitted to the Security Council by the then CID director Opatha Kankanamage Hemachandra (O.K. Hemachandra), who had investigated the murder.

His report says the then Army intelligence chief, retired Maj. Gen. Sunil Tennakoon was fully responsible for the killing.

The suicide bomber who detonated a grenade to kill Algama at the rally was controlled by a close friend of Tennakoon, it has been revealed.

Meeting him at a secret location, Tennakoon had given his friend a photograph of Algama and said, “This is the next defence secretary. You know how he eliminated the JVP. If he comes, you too, will be eliminated.” This man, arrested later, has made a confession, giving all the details.

Hemachandra had sought defence ministry permission to arrest Tennakon over the Algama killing, but the killers were concealed, even then, on the front that war heroes would be discouraged.

The CID has been able to expose many political and military murders committed by the Army intelligence in the past. We will expose those instances one by one.