“People were
abducted using ‘white’ vans during Mahinda Rajapaksa period. What’s
wrong with it?” type of statement has been made to ‘Mawbima’ newspaper
issued yesterday (15th) by Niroshsan Premaratna who entered Parliament
through UPFA as a Member of Wimal Weerawansa’s NFF.
When the journalist said, “Despite stating thieves are not arrested
now there were no investigations regarding the culture of white van,
abductions and murders that existed during the last regime,” Weerwansa’s
close associate Niroshan Premaratna says, “I vehemently oppose
abducting journalists. It occurred not only during Mahinda Rajapaka
regime but also during J.R. Jayawardene and Premadasa regimes.
All murders were not committed by Mahinda Rajapaksa. There was a
‘white van’ culture during that period. However, I did not see any
righteous person or any person useful to the country being abducted by
white vans and murdered. Members of the underworld and terrorists were
abducted using white vans. Only those who were an obstacle for the path
taken to solve the main issues during that time were abducted in that
manner.
I don’t know whether they were disappeared or murdered. However, on
8th January, 2015 that government got the answer for certain things they
did. The leader who saved the country was sent home. However, what the
people expected by sending home the previous regime could not be
realized through ‘yahapalanaya’.
When Parliamentarian Niroshan Premaratna says Mahinda Rajapaksa did
not commit all the murders, it implies that Mahinda Rajapaka is
responsible for some murders.
Whether a person is a member of the underworld or a terrorist or was
an ‘obstacle’ for the path taken by the government, such per sons should
be punished according to the law of the country. According to
Parliamentarian Niroshan Premaratna Mahinda Rajapaksa had unleashed
terror by committing extrajudicial murders, abductions, breaking limbs
and carrying out various punishments deploying thugs. These are gross
violations of human rights.
The important fact said by Parliamentarian Niroshan Premaratna is
that his statement made in public that “those who were an obstacle for
the path taken to solve the main issues during that time were abducted.”
He has been engaged as a journalist for several years. It is a
tragicomedy that a person such as Parliamentarian Niroshan Premaratna,
who had been a journalist for some time, had to come out with the
statement that those who were obstacles for the path taken by the
government should be stopped by abductions, murder , terrorizing and
threat.
According to the Parliamentarian no good persons had been abducted
with white vans, murdered or terrorized. Then, weren’t journalist
Prageeth Eknaligoda, political activists Lalith and Kugan, journalists
Lasantha Wickremetunga, Keeth Noer and JVP activist Nainavavadu good
people?
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