{"id":127816,"date":"2014-07-14T22:02:59","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T16:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=127816"},"modified":"2014-07-24T02:30:53","modified_gmt":"2014-07-23T21:00:53","slug":"stf-police-watched-the-savages-run-riot-claymore-bomb-was-used-on-mosque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/stf-police-watched-the-savages-run-riot-claymore-bomb-was-used-on-mosque\/","title":{"rendered":"STF-Police Watched The Savages Run Riot: Claymore Bomb Was Used On Mosque"},"content":{"rendered":"

UNP MP Palitha Thewarapperuma<\/span><\/a> who came under attack by Sinhalese mobs while rescuing victims, in a startling revelation to the Daily Mirror website, said that a mosque was attacked using “Claymore bombs”<\/p>\n

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“It was not a normal explosive device like a hand grenade, or some other one- it was a Claymore bomb” he says during an interview braodcast in the Sinhala language, on the Daily Mirror online webpage.<\/p>\n

The interviewer, interjects and asks Thewarapperuma if he is making the statement with responsibility, and the Parliamentarian replies in the affirmative.<\/p>\n

” Of course I am, the evidence is still there anyone could go and see. I have been in the army and I know the difference of a normal explosive device and a claymore bomb” he said.<\/p>\n

Thewarapperuma a UNP MP representing the Kaluthara District was injured during the anti – Muslim riots which began on June 15th.<\/p>\n

In the interview he further asserts that the entire attack was planned and done at the behest of a “higher power”.<\/p>\n

” This was clearly done at the behest of some higher power, the Police and the STF acted deaf and blind. I saw how the Police and STF watched on while my vehicle and the people I transported were attacked by these mobs”.<\/p>\n

” These were not Sinhalese Buddhists, these were about 1000- to 2000 followers of a faith that Gnanasara professes” he said.<\/p>\n

In a revealing interview, Therapperuma details how he got involved in the incident and denies allegations of him using the riots to market himself.<\/p>\n

In the interview which lasts for over half an hour, the UNP MP keeps insinuating that there is an ” unforeseen hand that made the Police blind- The government is to blame” among others.<\/p>\n

However, during the latter stages of the Interview, he squarely blames the Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa for the riots.<\/p>\n

” He has challenged us to show proof of his alliance, I am in search of it. We missed a chance because the Vehicles Gnanasara used are said to be of the defence ministry” he said.<\/p>\n

Watch full video<\/p>\n