I know it is not cool to speak ill of
the dead, but the horror stories now emerging of this man’s background makes
one shudder, that we are still a nation that tolerates such criminal behavior
without any question.
The police just do not pursue any lead,
when the man implicated was the brother of a senior minister then, (as in
Maithripala Sirisena) now President.
The story is now emerging that this man
was caught in bed with the wife of his long time friend, and though he had been
plied with the normal modus operandi of getting his victims husbands legless
drunk, there was still life left in him to discover deed, reach for the axe and
deliver the deadly blow. Let us see what kind of trial, and what kind of deal
comes out of this!
There must be so many women in
Polonnaruwa who are relieved that this man is gone, just as there would be
their husbands too, as he was in the habit of purloining their wives when he
got them drunk, and once they came to he had disappeared having done the dirty.
In Sinhala he was known a “Ganu Perethaya” which meant he wanted and got any women
he wanted, by force or by threat or both, and in the true form of a thug who
people feared, no one would dare challenge his demands.
It is time the Police force re look at
the way they treat some people better than others and reclaim the moral high
ground if we are to return from the law of the jungle to the law of the land! There
are many others in Sri Lanka with similar backgrounds who are protected by the
Police, due to who they are. In this new Regime, all such shady characters MUST
be brought to book so that the people of the Country have faith in the enforcement
of the law.
The number of rapes attributed to this
man will never get reported, and let us at least learn from this and make sure other
criminals are brought to book, and actually get prosecuted for their crimes.
This Govt. came with a mandate of enough is enough, and those involved in
crimes MUST face justice, no matter what the crimes are.
Now for the funeral. I will get sick to
the stomach if I see a trail of Ministers and worthies going to the funeral of
a destructive criminal in all senses of the word, just out of respect for the President.
I hope the President DOES NOT make a spectacle of this funeral and do the
needful in a small family way asking for a private funeral, and save the embarrassment
of people having to compromise their morals, to attend.
To me there is nothing wrong for a
President to have a prodigal brother, but if he is able to acknowledge this and
go forward that would be in the interest of Sri Lanka, while leaving him with a
less tainted background.
It is now to the media, to judge how they
report this story. It is important that the story be told truthfully obtaining eyewitness
accounts of his character, and not blame the President but show the people that
this man was allowed to thrive and behave like this thanks to the Rajapakse
Administration which wanted to use it as a lever against the other brother Maithripala
Sirisena, lest he got too cocky with the demands etc. So he is a creation of
the Rajapakses as much!!
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