By Colombo Telegraph –
“The media has the power to make a persons reputation either good or bad..sadly in my case, the media has been completely one sided..the main reason for that is politics…..what the media has to understand is that I’m not a politician, I’m just a normal guy who likes to have a good time…the people who know me, will testify on the fact that im a good friend so at the end of the day,thats all that counts..the rest is for u to find out…cheers!” says Malaka Silva in his Facebook account.
Minister Mervyn Silva‘s son Malaka Silva is a convicted criminal and police fail to arrest him for assaulting an Army intelligence officer Major Chandana Pradeep.
Malaka’s track record
*An Army Major was assaulted by Malaka Silva, Former Minister Mano Wijeratne’s stepson Rehan and five other persons at the Jaic Hilton car park at around 3.30 early morning on September 9,2012.
* In September 2007 an Accountant, Chaminda Senasinghe was hit on face with pistol butt by Malaka Silva at the Bistro Latino Restaurant. Speaking to The Sunday Leader from the Nawaloka Hospital, Chaminda recounted those last moments before he fell to the floor only to be kicked and manhandled by about 10 persons. (Sunday Leader September 9, 2007). After visiting hospital Chaminda lodged a complaint at the Bambalapitiya Police Station. However Malaka had made it to the police station before Chaminda and had himself made a complaint indicating a small bruise on the bridge of his nose and stating a group of persons had assaulted him. Senasinghe who had 11 stitches on his forehead and Malaka Silva was remanded on September 11, 2007 for pistol whipping Chaminda Senasinghe.
* Malaka Silva and two of his bodyguards on November 2, 2006 pleaded guilty to attacking attacking Police Narcotics Bureau (PNB) officers who were on a drug raid at a night club in a five star hotel.
Colombo High Court Judge Upali Abeyratne ordered each of them to pay compensation of Rs. 10,000 each and enter into a bond in Rs 100,000 each to be of good behaviour for one year. The accused were Malaka Silva and his bodyguards Sampath Kumara Rajapakse and Prasanna Kumara Suresh. The judge ordered that the compensation be directed to the Police Rewards Fund.
In a direct indictment by the Attorney General the three accused were charged with willfully causing hurt to deter a public servant from his duty. Malaka Silva was charged with intimidating and obstructing the PNB team which went on a narcotics raid with a court order to the night club My Kind of Place at Taj Samudra in the early hours of July 24, 2005.
The accused were indicted with assaulting police personnel including PC R.W. A. Dayan Lasantha – an offence punishable under Section 323 of the Penal Code.
According to the statements given by PNB officers and PNB OIC Buddhika Balachandra at the magisterial inquiry, on the said date the narcotics team, on a tip-off had raided the night club to arrest an ‘ecstasy’ dealer who was said to have been trafficking the drug at the hotel. When the PNB officers who were in plain clothes were leaving the night club after completing the ten-minute raid, Malaka Silva had obstructed them and abused them in foul language. Malaka Silva had allegedly threatened the police officer at gunpoint and assaulted the police officers. Later he had called his bodyguard who was armed with a pistol and attacked the police officers.
The PNB team had allegedly withdrawn from the place as the accused were armed and as they did not want to create a problem there. Later they had complained to the Colombo Fort police station.
The accused had later surrendered to the police station. Ironically two days after the attack former Police Chief, Chandra Fernando, announced the release of Malaka Silva and his mates saying that there was no evidence. Media reported that the police were under pressure not to work hard on the case.
In his attempt to defend his son, Mervyn Silva abused journalists in filth and stated that he knows what to do with the owners of Sirasa and Swarnavahini – two privately owned media outlets.
Earlier in connection with this trial Malaka had also been banned from entry into night clubs after 7 p.m with a warning that if the ban were violated the one million rupee bail on the two persons would be converted to a fine and charged from them. (Sunday Leader September 9, 2007)
* According to a leaked US diplomatic cables, in February 2007, US Ambassador Patricia A. Butenis wrote to her Secretary of State saying that “according to a former Sri Lankan security services official, drug kingpins in Sri Lanka have political patrons in the government, chief among them Dr. Mervin Silva, a Member of Parliament and the Minister of Labor. His son, Malaka Silva, is suspected of trafficking the drug ‘ecstasy’ in Colombo.”
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Donakathrin / September 16, 2012
so, if you are normal, just why not you talk to the Police in terms of the accusations ? Any clean person can easily talk with them if he or she is clean… this is what every right thinking would share in this regard.
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pusa / September 17, 2012
It is obvious that he is a major durg dealer. He attacked Narcotics Bureau and intelegent officers all the time (Before he was caught).
How one can be a proud owner of porcher/benz/BMW and many more supper lux cars being a son of a labor of Sathosa.
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Pintu / September 18, 2012
You know, it is just simple, Mervin s colleagues in the cabinet could raise the question in Parliament if they are PEOPLE LOVING and COUNTRY LOVING – since these are the root causes of the drug trafficking the related issues. If the authorities could crush it at this level, they could controll over the drugs that is reported to be with every 4th of youth in the country today.
If so called people loving, country loving president could react – if his cabinet ministers stay apathetic – using his ex powers, he could crush those root causes of drug trafficking in the country. He seems to be not even paying attention to these issues wholeheartedly.
If this is not anybody´s problem in the parliament – general public should protest to a manner that arabic countries approached their targets recently. Majority folks in SL are passive observers. They can easily be defeated by giving them a tofee – by easily making them fools:
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Ben Hurling / September 16, 2012
Lovely T-shirt.
Pity it is worn by an absconding criminal.
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Olympian. / September 16, 2012
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Saliya / September 16, 2012
Someone has to represent duminda and the vacancy is filled.
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PresiDunce Bean / September 17, 2012
Poor fellow. Looks like there has been a miscarriage of justice. Shame on all you you media people who are hounding an innocent son of a respected upstanding member of parliament, who’s only fault is to try to make an honest living by selling a few ecstasy pills at night clubs. May the blessings of the triple gem be with you my friend. Esto perpetua…be thou forever…and looooooooooooong live our King the PresiDunce Percy Jilmart, without whom non of this would be possible. One Country…One people…One ruling family…Jaya waaay waaa…maaa throooo boooo me yaarrr. Now lets eat some kiribath…light some crackers and sing our new national anthem “Ayubo Wewa Maha Rajaneni”…(click link to listen)
http://youtu.be/S5OZNrTPLEk
oh the tears of joy this anthem brings to me every time I listen to it. Proud to be Sri RajaPakistan!
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Senguttuvan / September 17, 2012
What a Father! What a son? This can only happen in what is believed by some imbeciles as The Miracle of Asia – a broken and failed society
where pimps and drug-traffickers hobknob with the Palace-wallahs.
As old Abe said a people can be fooled for sometime; even many times – but not all the time. The Karma circle comes round and Sri Lankans will once again regain their self-respect.
Senguttuvvan
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AYMAN / September 17, 2012
HOW CAN YOU BE NORMAL,WHEN WE HEAR OF ALL YOU CRIMINAL ACTS.?
IF THE MEDIA IS MAKING FALSE STATEMENTS. TAKE ACTION AGAINST THEM.
HOW CAN YOU BE NORMAL WHEN YOU ARE THE SON OF AN “ABNORMAL”??????
THE TRUTH IS THAT YOU ARE UNDER THE PROTECTION OF THE MOST ABNORMAL JACKASS, WHO IS IN CHARGE.OBVIOUSLY HE CANNOT LET YOU DOWN BECOZ’
THERE ARE LOTS OF THINGS WHICH ARE “JOINT-VENTURE” CRIMES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
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Sripala / September 17, 2012
So police has to answer in following manner, why anarchy is governing today..
This has been a successful simbiosis since MR ´s presidency is there.
Mervin washes his hands while MR has to washes his. This is not the first time, people will not even notice the gravity of the anarchial consequences for the country while IC observes.
http://www.dailymirror.lk/news/21948-slhrc-to-query-police-inaction-.html
Sripala – September 17, 2012
5:29 am
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Desilva / September 17, 2012
NAIL THIS “SON OF A —–” TO THE CROSS UPSIDE DOWN. HE IS POSING WELL FOR IT. MAKE SURE HE IS FULLY STRIPPED SO THAT WE COULD CONFIRM THAT HE IS THE “SON”.
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Lasantha Pethiyagoda / September 17, 2012
There does not seem to be anything new in these developments…the names might be rather different, and circumstances and settings different, but events seem so uniformly predictable while following a well choreographed pattern…and the poor suckers here keep accruing bad karma with their unwholesome thoughts…
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VR / September 17, 2012
What this guy is not saying is he is paid by the government as his father’s secretary to do this criminal acts.
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lal / September 18, 2012
THIS IS ANOTHER ASS HOLE WHO HAS TAKEN HIS HUDDU MADAVIYAS POWER IN TO HIS OWN HANDS.MADAVIYA IS ABOVE THE LAW BECAUSE OF SPECIAL FAVOURS DONE TO OUR RAJA PARAYA.LIKE SUPPLYING HORA GANU FOR HIM.
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ChangeIT / September 19, 2012
It matters not a whit what crimes these goons commit. Come electon day, we throng en masse to polling booths and re-elect the entire lot, and whom we have as our leaders reflect who we are as a people. This has been the experience in SL for decades, and will probably continue for many more. It is democracy at its finest. Enjoy the ride.
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shankar / September 19, 2012
Malaka should have said “i’am just an abnormal son of an abnormal father” and the nation would have understood and forgiven him.
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shenu / February 1, 2013
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