{"id":87484,"date":"2019-04-24T11:31:51","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T17:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=87484"},"modified":"2019-04-24T04:19:50","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T11:19:50","slug":"all-those-who-were-in-charge-of-the-security-of-the-country-in-between-11th-april-up-to-yesterday-should-take-full-responsibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/04\/24\/all-those-who-were-in-charge-of-the-security-of-the-country-in-between-11th-april-up-to-yesterday-should-take-full-responsibility\/","title":{"rendered":"All those who were in charge of the security of the country in between 11th April up to yesterday should take full responsibility for this carnage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Sudath Gunasekara<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

All those who were in charge of the security of the\ncountry at the top in between 11th<\/sup> April up to yesterday should take\nfull responsibility, for this carnage. Therefore they should unconditionally apologies\nto the nation and resign immediately from their positions without putting the\nnation in to greater difficulties.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Sudath Gunasekara 24.4.2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dear all please\nread the following two news items carefully and tell the country what you feel\nabout it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sources\nconfirmed that a letter signed by Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Priyalal\nDasanayake dated April 11 which was widely circulated through social media\npertaining to an impending attack, was authentic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Secretary of\nDefense and the Establishment did not deny knowledge of the warnings of an\nattack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The letter\nspecifies the suspected perpetrators too. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prime Minister\nRanil Wickremesinghe also confirmed that information was there\u201d. (news item)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The above news item confirms the following things<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1 The letter was signed by the DIG on 11th<\/sup>\nApril. This means the warning letter must have reached the IGP\u2019s office on or before\nthe 11th<\/sup>. Therefore the IGP himself must have seen this and probably\nhe may have instructed the DIG to issue the said letter to the parties\nconcerned. Neither the IGP nor the DIG has taken any follow up action until the\nyesterday\u2019s carnage took its toll.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2 The Secretary of Defense and his office also knew\nabout the pending attack.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

3 They also knew the details perpetrators too<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

4 Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe also knew about\nit.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

5 There was enough time to arrest the leader and\nprevent this disaster<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

6 No steps have been taken by all these people until\nthe carnage took place killing 2 over 200s and nearly killing another 400\ninnocent men, women and children and causing billions of loss to the nation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

7 They all were sleeping as none of them was concerned\nabout the lives of people or the country at large. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this backdrop I pose the following questions to the\nIGP.DIG. Secretary of Defense and the Prime Minister<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why didn\u2019t the\nIGP request the Secretary to immediately inform the Head of the State about\nthis impending serious disaster and advised him to summon the Security Council\nimmediately to take necessary steps to prevent this disaster?.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why didn\u2019t the\nSecretary Defense inform the President as his Minister and ask him to summon a\nmeeting of the National Security Council and take necessary steps to arrest\nThowfeed Jamath leader Mohammed Zahran immediately and take all precautions to\nprevent this colossal disaster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why didn\u2019t the\nPrime Minister inform the President, if he also knew about it, and ask to\nsummon a meeting of the National Security Council and take necessary steps to\narrest Thowfeed Jamath leader Mohammed Zahran and prevent the impending\ndisaster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 21st<\/sup>\nincident clearly shows that all these people are together responsible for the carnage\nand all the damages caused to the nation and none of them is fit to hold their\npositions any longer as none could be exonerated from this crime. Nor can they\nplead not guilty either<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If the President\nwas kept in the dark why doesn\u2019t the President sack the Secretary Defense, the\nIGP and the PM and all others responsible for this incident for gross\nnegligence and failing their duties by the people and the country. In the\nalternative he can get sacked himself by resigning for failing in his prime\nduty of providing security to the people of the country he is supposed to\ngovern as the Head of the State.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The best thing\nfor others is therefore to resign from their positions before the President is\ncompelled to sack them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

News item two<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2 Minister\nHarin Fernando today tweeted the image of an internal memo and report by the\npolice intelligence of a terror attack to be carried out by an organization\ncalled National Thawheed Jamath.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some\nintelligence officers were aware of this incidence. Therefore there was a delay\nin action. What my father heard was also from an intelligence officer. Serious\naction need to be taken as to why this warning was ignored. I was in Badulla\nlast night,\u201d the minister tweeted..<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The letter\nsigned by the DIG and dated on April 11 was addressed to a number of key\nofficials in the security services including the Directors of the Ministerial\nSecurity Division (MSD), Former Presidents\u2019 Security Division and the\nAmbassadors Security Division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The letter\ntitled Information of an alleged plan attack\u201d said the state intelligence\nservices had received information from a foreign intelligence service to the\neffect that National Thowheed Jamath Leader Mohammed Zahran was about to launch\na suicide bomb attack in Sri Lanka targeting famous catholic churches and the\nIndian High Commission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the letter,\nthe DIG requested the concerned authorities to pay attention to the information\nand to beef up the security provided to VIP personnel and to the locations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If he knew all this including the name of the\nterrorist organization including the leaders name as well and has tweeted after\nthe event why didn\u2019t he at least tell his Prime Minister and requests him to\ntake necessary steps to prevent this disaster, if he did not want to speak to\nthe President. He too could have prevented this disaster had he divulged the\nname of the intelligence officer who told his father about it to the\nauthorities.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What a selfish man he is. No wonder the country is\ngone to such pathetic situation when it is run by useless politicians like\nthis.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

All these events\nshow that all these fellows are utterly unconcerned about the lives of people\nand the country as they are only concerned about their power, positions, perks\nand their own wellbeing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This entire pack\nof unpatriotic self-seeking traitors should be sent home  ASAP before they put the country to an\nirreversible state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The whole\nnation\u2019s curse will be upon them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ps<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile I\nnoticed last evening that Minister Rishard Bdurdheen and Hakeem walked away\nfrom a “UNP Cabinet meeting” held at Temple trees presided over by\nanother noted traitor Minister Rajitha Senaratna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rishard\nBadurdeen and Hakeem walked away from the meeting when questioned by the press\nas to the involvement of Badurdeen\u2019s sister at whose place the Dematagoda\nincident took place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now that a\nperson living in that house has been arrested at Dambulla.  I suspect Badurdeen the never changing\nMinister of Trade and Commerce in Sri Lanka and Hakeem are also involved in this\ncarnage. Otherwise why did they evade answering the press and left in ahurry?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also Rajitha\nSenaratna said that they knew about it 19 days before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The big question\nthat arises is, if so, why didn’t they take immediate action by informing the\nHead of the State, unless he had the ulterior motive of putting the blame on\nPresident Sirisena. This proposition is confirmed when you look at Senaratna\naccusing the President for not inviting the PM for Security Council meetings\nsince Oct 26 last year.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this backdrop\nI suspect he also, like Minister Haren Fernando, is trying to put the blame on\nthe President and wash off his hands. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Revelations made\nby Mawanella MP and Minister Kabir Hasim and Wijedasa Rajapaksa on Asad Sali\nalso have to be taken very seriously. They also should be sacked immediately\nand handed over to the CID for further action<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As such there\nappears to be much greater ramifications in this canard where even some Cabinet\nMinisters are directly and indirectly responsible for the 22nd<\/sup>\ndisaster. It appears to be a much wider conspiracy to destabilize the country\neven with wider international connections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Therefore I would like to suggest that the President\nshould sack all these Ministers as well and instruct the CID to arrest and question\nthem for sabotage and hatching a conspiracy against the State in the interest\nof the Security of the nation. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If he is unable to take this course of action, then he\nshould find a way to dissolve the present government which has brought the\nsecurity of the country to a standstill and allow the people to elect a new\npatriotic and competent government to replace it in the interest of the Nation\nand the country. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That Mr. President is the only thing  the whole country expects from you at this\nmoment as they know very well they cannot expect anything more from you on\nearth, going by the way you have governed or rather miss-governed this country\nfor the past four and half years.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr. Sudath Gunasekara All those who were in charge of the security of the country at the top in between 11th April up to yesterday should take full responsibility, for this carnage. Therefore they should unconditionally apologies to the nation and resign immediately from their positions without putting the nation in to greater difficulties. Dr. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-sudath-gunasekara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87484","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=87484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}