{"id":154783,"date":"2015-12-21T05:12:18","date_gmt":"2015-12-20T23:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=154783"},"modified":"2015-12-30T19:41:34","modified_gmt":"2015-12-30T14:11:34","slug":"yoshitha-and-hitman-capt-tissa-pictured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/yoshitha-and-hitman-capt-tissa-pictured\/","title":{"rendered":"Yoshitha And Hitman Capt. Tissa Pictured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A picture shows Captain Tissa, who has been linked to many murders under the Rajapaksa regime with the alleged mastermind of the Thajudeen murder and Malaka Silva assault, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Yoshitha+Rajapaksa&amp;x=13&amp;y=5\">Yoshitha Rajapaksa<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Captain Tissa a former Paratrooper and suspected deserter of the Army, and thereafter a close confidante of the former first family has been linked to many murders under the regime.<\/p>\n<p>Captain Tissa was a member of former Presidential Security Division under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Mahinda+Rajapaksa&amp;x=14&amp;y=4\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Mahinda Rajapaksa<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The murder of Ruggerite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Wasim+Thajudeen&amp;x=10&amp;y=2\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Wasim Thajudeen<\/span><\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/malaka-silva-was-stabbed-by-a-group-of-army-men\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">assault on Malaka Silva<\/span><\/a> have all been linked to Captain Tissa.<\/p>\n<p>Tissa is said to have acted under the complete supervision of the first family and had acted as the leader of a hit squad, in which former intelligence personnel, LTTE deserters turned Army informants and others formed a part of the team, depending on the &#8216;job requirement&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Cap-Tissa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-154784\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Cap-Tissa.jpg\" alt=\"Cap Tissa\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Cap-Tissa.jpg 680w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Cap-Tissa-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":154784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2186,1,6969,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-featured-news","category-news","category-popular-stories","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Yoshitha And Hitman Capt. 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