{"id":105247,"date":"2013-09-13T15:35:09","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T10:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=105247"},"modified":"2013-09-20T04:45:15","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T23:15:15","slug":"wikileaks-pararajasingham-and-raviraj-killings-karuna-and-douglas-killing-mps-epdp-vigneswaran-to-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wikileaks-pararajasingham-and-raviraj-killings-karuna-and-douglas-killing-mps-epdp-vigneswaran-to-us\/","title":{"rendered":"WikiLeaks: Pararajasingham And Raviraj Killings; Karuna And Douglas Killing MPs &#8211; EPDP Vigneswaran To US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;The Karuna group is probably the most active Sri Lankan paramilitary in abductions and extrajudicial killings. On March 20, former Tamil MP and legal expert Dr. K. Vigneswaran (strictly protect) confided to PolOff that even MPs fear that the GSL will use Karuna to assassinate them. Colombo-area Tamil MP and Chairman of the Civil Monitoring Commission Mano Ganesan echoed this anxiety to us on March 29. A number of other MPs, Muslims as well as Tamils, have told us privately that they fear for their lives. Vigneswaran stated that he believed Karuna set up the assassination of Tamil MP Joseph Pararajasingham on Christmas Day 2005 (ref G) with the help of EPDP leader Devananda. Vigneswaran was also positive that Karuna cadres were employed in the killing in Colombo of popular Tamil MP Nadarajah Raviraj on November 10, 2006 (ref F).&#8221;\u00a0the US Embassy Colombo informed Washington.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_105253\" style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wikileaks-pararajasingham-and-raviraj-killings-karuna-and-douglas-killing-mps-epdp-vigneswaran-to-us\/karuna-and-douglas\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-105253\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-105253\" class=\"size-full wp-image-105253\" title=\"KARUNA and Douglas\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/KARUNA-and-Douglas.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/KARUNA-and-Douglas.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/KARUNA-and-Douglas-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-105253\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Karuna, Douglas and the President<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/\">Colombo Telegraph<\/a><\/span>\u00a0found the related leaked cable from the\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/category\/wikileaks\/\">WikiLeaks<\/a><\/span>\u00a0database. The cable is classified as \u201cSECRET\u201d and discuses Sri Lanka\u2019s paramilitary operations. The cable was written by the Ambassador\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Robert+O.+Blake&amp;x=6&amp;y=3\">Robert O. Blake<\/a><\/span>\u00a0on\u00a0May 18, 2007.<\/p>\n<p>The ambassador wrote; &#8220;Father Bernard, a Catholic priest from Jaffna, confirmed that Karuna has extended his activities to Jaffna from his base in the East. Bernard has documented 52 new abduction cases in Jaffna in the month of March 2007, many of which he believes are the responsibility of the Karuna group. In February 2007, he presented more than 200 files to One-Man Commissioner (and personal friend of the President) Mahanama Tilakaratne. However, Bernard told PolOff that he was discouraged with the One-Man Commission (ref B), since Tilakaratne had not made the effort to investigate even a single case in Jaffna. Father Bernard told us he has evidence of 747 abductions in Jaffna from November 2005 to February 2007. However, because of GSL interference and limited resources, he was only able to document a sample of 200 of these cases for presentation to Tilakaratne. Father Bernard described one abduction in which a man suspected of having ties to the LTTE was taken and a &#8216;calling card&#8217; was left with a picture of Karuna on the front and a calendar on the back, indicating that the man&#8217;s &#8216;time had run out.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We publish below the relevant part of the cable;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">Related posts to this cable;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a title=\"WkiLeaks: Gota Authorized Paramilitary Operations \u2013 Sri  Ranga\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wkileaks-gota-authorized-paramilitary-operations-sri-ranga\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">WkiLeaks: Gota Authorized Paramilitary Operations \u2013 Sri Ranga<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"WikiLealks: Major General Chandrasiri Confided MOD Instruction To US\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wikilealks-major-general-chandrasiri-confided-mod-instruction-to-us\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">WikiLealks: Major General Chandrasiri Confided MOD Instruction To US<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"WikiLeaks: EPDP Sold Jaffna Children: Girls To Prostitution Rings And Boys To Slavery\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wikileaks-epdp-sold-jaffna-children-girls-to-prostitution-rings-and-boys-to-slavery\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">WikiLeaks: EPDP Sold Jaffna Children: Girls To Prostitution Rings And Boys To Slavery<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<pre>S E C R E T SECTION 01 OF 06 COLOMBO 000728 \r\n\r\nSIPDIS \r\n\r\nSIPDIS \r\n\r\nDEPARTMENT FOR SCA\/INS\r\nMCC FOR S GROFF, D TETER, D NASSIRY AND E BURKE \r\n\r\nE.O. 12958: DECL: 05\/18\/2017\r\nTAGS: PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MOPS CE\r\nSUBJECT: SRI LANKA: GSL COMPLICITY IN PARAMILITARY\r\nFACTIONS' HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES \r\n\r\nREF: A. COLOMBO 591\r\n     \u00b6B. COLOMBO 561\r\n     \u00b6C. COLOMBO 463\r\n     \u00b6D. COLOMBO 460\r\n     \u00b6E. 2006 COLOMBO 2056\r\n     \u00b6F. 2006 COLOMBO 1896\r\n     \u00b6G. 2005 COLOMBO 2157\r\n     \u00b6H. 2004 COLOMBO 1219 \r\n\r\nClassified By: Ambassador Robert O. Blake, Jr., for reasons 1.4(b, d)<\/pre>\n<pre>Abductions and Killings\r\n----------------------- \r\n\r\n\u00b66.  (S) The Karuna group is probably the most active Sri\r\nLankan paramilitary in abductions and extrajudicial killings.\r\n On March 20, former Tamil MP and legal expert Dr. K.\r\nVigneswaran (strictly protect) confided to PolOff that even\r\nMPs fear that the GSL will use Karuna to assassinate them.\r\nColombo-area Tamil MP and Chairman of the Civil Monitoring\r\nCommission Mano Ganesan echoed this anxiety to us on March\r\n\u00b629.  A number of other MPs, Muslims as well as Tamils, have\r\ntold us privately that they fear for their lives.\r\nVigneswaran stated that he believed Karuna set up the\r\nassassination of Tamil MP Joseph Pararajasingham on Christmas\r\nDay 2005 (ref G) with the help of EPDP leader Devananda.\r\nVigneswaran was also positive that Karuna cadres were\r\nemployed in the killing in Colombo of popular Tamil MP\r\nNadarajah Raviraj on November 10, 2006 (ref F). \r\n\r\n\u00b67.  (S) Father Bernard, a Catholic priest from Jaffna,\r\nconfirmed that Karuna has extended his activities to Jaffna\r\nfrom his base in the East.  Bernard has documented 52 new\r\nabduction cases in Jaffna in the month of March 2007, many of\r\nwhich he believes are the responsibility of the Karuna group.\r\n In February 2007, he presented more than 200 files to\r\nOne-Man Commissioner (and personal friend of the President)\r\nMahanama Tilakaratne.  However, Bernard told PolOff that he\r\nwas discouraged with the One-Man Commission (ref B), since\r\nTilakaratne had not made the effort to investigate even a\r\nsingle case in Jaffna.  Father Bernard told us he has \r\n\r\nCOLOMBO 00000728  003 OF 006 \r\n\r\nevidence of 747 abductions in Jaffna from November 2005 to\r\nFebruary 2007.  However, because of GSL interference and\r\nlimited resources, he was only able to document a sample of\r\n200 of these cases for presentation to Tilakaratne.  Father\r\nBernard described one abduction in which a man suspected of\r\nhaving ties to the LTTE was taken and a \"calling card\" was\r\nleft with a picture of Karuna on the front and a calendar on\r\nthe back, indicating that the man's \"time had run out.\"<\/pre>\n<pre>BLAKE<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":105253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2187,1,6969,2375,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-most-popular","category-news","category-popular-stories","category-stories","category-wikileaks"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>WikiLeaks: Pararajasingham And Raviraj Killings; 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