ARMY ANNOUNCES THAT TWO MAJORS AND A CAPTAIN ARE TO FACE MILITARY TRIBUNALS FOR PASSING INFORMATION TO THE ENEMY

By Walter Jayawardhana

An Army Major will face a court martial for passing information to the liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam at any time, the ministry of Defense announced.

Two more another major and a captain have been taken into custody for the same treason and will be tried before military courts when the investigation against them are over, Brigadier Prasad Samarasinghe, the army spokesman further said.

This is the first time in Sri Lanka’s military history such high ranking officers are going to be tried for treason for helping the enemy.

The Army spokesman said the three were taken into custody on allegation of passing information on the movement of the army and government officials so that they could become potential targets of the enemy.

He said the investigation by the Criminal Investigation Department of the Police against the first major has been completed and the sitting of the military tribunal to hear the case against him could start at any time.

If convicted all three of them who are Sinhalese could be given the punishment of death.
In Colombo last year the major suicide bomb attack occurred when suspected Tamil Tiger suicide bomber targeted the country’s top military Commander LT.General Sarath Fonseka in side the fortified army head quarters.

Fonseka was injured but 11 army guards died in the attempt. In June the third higest military Commander General Parami Kulatunga was killed by a suspected LTTE suicide bomber. In December the Defense Secretary,Gotabhaya Rajapksa was targeted .While he escaped without being hurt two of his guards died.

All these attacks were aimed while those officials were traveling in motorcades enabling investigators to speculate that the information of their movements were being passed on to the enemy.
Before these official announcements about the arrests and the trial newspapers published that the corrupt officials had passed information for money and they were having big bank accounts and leading lavish lives.