LTTE leader Prabhakaran’s former deputy was RAW agent: Book
Posted on August 15th, 2016
Courtesy Adaderana
August 15, 2016 04:04 pm
LTTE supreme leader Velupillai PrabhakaranJournalist Neena Gopal, who interviewed former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi moments before he was assassinated in 1991, says that Gopalaswamy Mahendrarajah alias Mahattaya was a Research and Analysis Wing mole.
The man was cultivated and positioned by RAW as their mole inside Prabharkaran’s hitherto impenetrable ranks as early as 1989,” she says in her book The Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi” (Penguin).
He would become their deep asset, the one who would subvert the insurgent movement from the inside, and had been tasked to eliminate Prabhakaran and take over the LTTE,” the book says.
RAW’s links with Mahattaya, who the LTTE later executed on charges of being an Indian intelligence agent, was not known to the Indian Military Intelligence or the Intelligence Bureau, it says.
The LTTE reportedly suspected that it was Mahattaya who tipped off the Indians about a Tamil Tiger ship in January 1993, leading to the death of former Jaffna LTTE commander Kittu, a childhood friend of Prabhakaran.
According to the book, Mahattaya was reportedly seized by the LTTE and taken to a camp where he was tortured over a period of several weeks and months until he could barely speak, sit or stand.
He was finally executed in December 1994, 19 months (later). Some 257 of his men were executed and their bodies dumped, LTTE style, in a pit and set on fire.”
Despite the RAW’s covert penetration of the LTTE, the Indian military, civilian intelligence and its diplomats worked at cross-purposes when the Indian military was deployed in Sri Lanka’s northeast in 1987-90, the book says.
The Sri Lankan military finally crushed the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in May 2009, leaving thousands dead in the final months of a brutal conflict that began some 30 years earlier.
The book also suggests that the RAW — which like other Indian institutions felt betrayed after Prabhakaran ordered Gandhi’s killing — may have had a hand in the LTTE chief’s elimination.
RAW sources say that until the very last minute, Prabhakaran was tricked into believing that a surrender (by him and his men in 2009) was a viable option, and that he would be handed over to a neutral international group and not the Sri Lankan government as Colombo wanted.”
The RAW’s ability to cultivate assets in the LTTE was one reason for its overconfidence vis-a-vis the Tigers.
Accordingly, the agency failed to factor that the LTTE leader would avenge the fighting against the Indian military in Sri Lanka by targeting Rajiv Gandhi one day.
Neena Gopal quotes a senior RAW officer as saying: If we had read the signals right, if we understood what was going on in Prabhakaran’s mind, who knows, we could have prevented this.
It was our fault, we made a huge error of judgement. We misread Prabhakaran. We never believed he would turn against us in this manner. We should have seen it coming. We didn’t.
We failed Rajiv Gandhi, we failed to save his life.”
The author had been interviewing Gandhi until he reached the election rally ground at Sriperumpudur near Chennai on the night of May 21, 1991. A little later, Gandhi was killed by a LTTE woman suicide bomber.
She says that Gandhi had an almost prescient premonition of his own death”.
The book says there was complete lack of security at the venue and it was not well lit too, a point even Gandhi noticed.
Gandhi then told the author: Have you noticed how every time any South Asian leader of any import rises to a position of power or is about to achieve something for himself or his country, he is cut down, attacked, killed…
Look at Mrs (Indira) Gandhi, Sheikh Mujib, look at Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, at Zia ul-Haq, (S.W.R.D.) Bandaranaike.”
The book says: Within minutes of making that bone-chilling prophetic statement that hinted that there were dark forces at work and he knew he was a target, Rajiv Gandhi himself would be gone.”
-NIE
-Agencies
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August 15th, 2016 at 5:16 pm
Entire LTTE was a RAW agency. Not just one person.
Rajiv Ghandhi was killed by the RAW using a Tamil attacker. Rajiv was MORE PRO-US (thanks to his western education and lifestyle) but Endia and RAW at that time was more PRO-SU. His death was the result of this clash.
August 16th, 2016 at 2:06 am
The LTTE was a proxy force of the US, UK, EU, Canada, Sweden, Norway and India. It is absolutely clear to anyone with any sense whatsoever that this was the case. That is why the US, UK, EU, Canada, Sweden, Norway and India are now up in arms and using the UNHRC to bring on bogus UNHRC resolutions against Sri Lanka in order to punish the patriotic Sri Lankans for dealing with the LTTE menace.
However, Ranil, Sirisena, CBK and Mangala today are agents of the US, UK, EU, Canada, Sweden, Norway and India too doing their bidding, doing the racist TNA’s and separatist terrorists bidding, aiding the harassing and ethnically cleansing the Sinhala people from the North and fulfilling the aim of setting up a bogus eelam via federal states, self rule and the like.
August 17th, 2016 at 3:37 am
Mr. Udaya Gammanpila Sir,
Apart from highly commending you for taking legal action against the treacherous CBK (Chaura Rejina) regarding the defamatory and utter lies she keeps repeating to defame her rivals, legal action should be taken against her for stating that she will definitely devolve more powers to provincial Councils within the new constitution. Does this evil woman CBK think she owns Sri Lanka and that she is the one who is going to draw up the new constitution of Sri Lanka (according to the wishes of the imperialistic US, UK, EU, Canada, Norway, Sweden, India, the racist TNA and the separatist terrorists)? The constitution of Sri Lanka should satisfy first and foremost the majority of people of this island i.e. the Sinhala people and the Sinhala people firstly do not want to draw up a new constitution nor do they want any more powers whatsoever be provided to the provincial councils.
Someone has to go to the supreme court and take action against treacherous CBK for suggesting that she will definitely devolve more powers to provincial councils within the yet to be drawn up constitution since this means the treacherous Ranil, Sirisena, CBK and Mangala have already drawn up a constitution to satisfy the imperialistic US, UK, EU, Canada, Norway, Sweden, India, the racist TNA and the separatist terrorists which is illegal.
Beyond this, this yahapalanaya government, CBK, Sirisena, the JVP, the JHU, Sarath Fonseka and the like are extremely corrupt and are enjoying perks such as Pajeros, official vehicles, official residences, Rs.200 lakhs loans, doing deals such as renting buildings for example to house the agricultural ministry at very high rents, the bond scam, paying supporters very high salaries and hiring them as ‘consultants’ who are not really consultants such as at the RDA, the rice mafia of Sirisena brother making massive amounts of money at the expense of poor rice farmers, the coal deals of Champika making yet more massive amounts of money, all these corrupt deals are being done and the country is being betrayed in this way by collecting the required two thirds majority in parliament to ensure that treacherous acts such as the missing persons act are approved by parliament.
All the while valuable infrastructure that should be marketed all over the world such as the Mattala Airport was used for storing rice rather than enticing airlines all over the world to use this airport or at least divert half the airplanes which use Katunayake to Mattala, especially tourist planes.