{"id":157705,"date":"2026-08-06T14:59:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T21:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=157705"},"modified":"2026-08-06T14:59:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T21:59:33","slug":"is-it-not-a-concerning-issue-how-major-general-kamal-gunaratne-got-velupillai-prabhakarans-id-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2026\/08\/06\/is-it-not-a-concerning-issue-how-major-general-kamal-gunaratne-got-velupillai-prabhakarans-id-card\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it not a concerning issue how Major General Kamal Gunaratne got Velupillai Prabhakaran’s ID Card?\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

By, Professor Nishan C Wijesinha of the German School of Medicine.<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

\u00a0*During the final phase of the war in Mullaitivu \u2014\u00a0 Mullivaikkal \u2014 the Sri Lanka Military operations were led\u00a0 by – the – ground command, in Mullaitivu \/ Vanni (Feb\u2013April 2009 + May 16-18)*<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Vanni theater was run by Security Forces Headquarters – Vanni. Key commanders named for the final operations by their names were:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– *Maj. Gen. Jagath Jayasuriya* \u2014 Security Forces Commander, Vanni. He was present at the official ceremony on 20 May 2009 announcing the end of the war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– *Brig. Shavendra Silva* \u2014 GOC, 58 Division. His division was positioned \u223c300m from the NFZ and led the “hostage rescue operation” to break into the last LTTE area. He was also listed as a commander for the Battle of Puthukkudiyirippu in April 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– *Maj. Gen. Kamal Gunaratne* \u2014 GOC, 53 Division<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– *Maj. Gen. Jagath Dias* \u2014 GOC, 57 Division<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– *Brig. Prasanna Silva* \u2014 GOC, 55 Division<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– *Brig. Chagie Gallage* \u2014 GOC, 59 Division<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– *Maj. Gen. Nandana Udawatta* \u2014 59 GOC – HQ<\/p>\n\n\n\n

*Repeated History …* <\/p>\n\n\n\n

*Cankili II* was the last king of the Jaffna Kingdom. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

– *1617*: Portuguese forces from Colombo, led by Captain-General Filipe de Oliveira, invaded the Jaffna Kingdom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– *June 1619* The  Portuguese captured Cankili II along with members of his family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– *1619*: He was *beheaded in Goa* along with other members of the royal family. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

 *Whereas on May 16-18 2009* <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The last battles happened in Mullivaikkal; where the LTTE leadership surrendered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 *The above History repeats on May 18 2009* which, according to *IDP’S* *confidential eyewitnesses information received:* ….<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Velupillai Prabhakaran’s son Balachandran was taken to a bunker and shot thrice at short range before his father’s eyes and then his father was brutally murdered and the body was placed near the Nandikadal lagoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 I must strongly say?  “that the earlier was history; but the current been totally different, as these brutish war crimes were made after a peaceful surrender; where in which in my experience was an invitation for a productive constitutional political change”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 *Is it not then a concerning issue how? .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

**Maj. Gen. Kamal Gunaratne got Velupillai Prabhakaran\u2019s LTTE “Tamileelam” identity card?* <\/p>\n\n\n\n

 *Doesn’t it not expose exactly the person responsible for this brutish war crime?* <\/p>\n\n\n\n

 *”How can we been human beings surrender these issues”?*<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is it not concerning? ……<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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By, Professor Nishan C Wijesinha of the German School of Medicine. \u00a0*During the final phase of the war in Mullaitivu \u2014\u00a0 Mullivaikkal \u2014 the Sri Lanka Military operations were led\u00a0 by – the – ground command, in Mullaitivu \/ Vanni (Feb\u2013April 2009 + May 16-18)* The Vanni theater was run by Security Forces Headquarters – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157706,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157705\/revisions\/157706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}