Sri Lanka Govt. losing the Thai Govt.’s co-operation to interrogate KP -UNP
Sri Lanka's main opposition party, the United National Party (UNP) has finally revealed the truth that the LTTE's leading arms procurement man, Kumaran Pathmanathan also known as KP was indeed arrested in Thailand early this month. This is the first any political party in Sri Lanka announced the arrest of LTTE's Number Two officially.
Meanwhile, Lakshman Kiriella, UNP Parliamentarian at a press briefing today (27 Sep.) at the UNP Media Unit ,explained in detail how this Rajapakse Administration wantonly , or owing to diplomatic and security bungling lost a golden opportunity to apprehend and interrogate case of the KP.
“In the first week of this month, the Thai Govt. informed and instructed Sri Lanka Govt. specifically to attach a strict veil of secrecy in regard to the arrest of LTTE arms procurer, Kumaran Pathmanathan (KP) in Thailand,” MP Kiriella said.
“Any responsible Defence Secretary of a country would understand that confidentiality and top secrecy in these matters is extremely vital on issues of this nature in the interests of his own country and internationally,” he also said.
According to Kiriella, “but, this Defence Secretary of ours, Gotabaya Rajapakse who makes hollow boasts of destroying the LTTE could not understand this obvious requirement of confidentiality, despite clear instructions from the Thai Govt. not to reveal this security information, released this very information to the Defence website making a hash of the whole issue. This resulted in the Sri Lanka Govt. losing the Thai Govt.’s co-operation to interrogate KP.”
"When this course of action of this Govt. is seen against the background of the raging accusations made by former Ministers, Mangala Samaraweera and Sripathy Sooriyarachi regarding the multi million rupee payments to LTTE by the Rajapaksa administration , during and after elections, it is a reasonable inference that the Govt. entertained the fear that if KP is apprehended and interrogated, he would expose the arms purchases made by the LTTE out of the monies paid to them by the Rajapaksa Administration," M.P. Kiriella alleged.
Furthermore he says , in the circumstances, the Rajapaksa administration is under a bounden duty to give an explanation to the people of this country as to why it muddled up this issue and jeopardised the country’s security when the opportunity to interrogate KP was offered on a platter.
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