{"id":1735,"date":"2011-11-13T05:25:51","date_gmt":"2011-11-13T05:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/colombotelegraph.com\/?p=1735"},"modified":"2011-11-13T05:25:51","modified_gmt":"2011-11-13T05:25:51","slug":"death-of-a-rebel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/death-of-a-rebel\/","title":{"rendered":"Death of a Rebel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/rohana-wijeweera-colombo-telegraph.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1736\" title=\"Rohana Wijeweera - colombo telegraph\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/rohana-wijeweera-colombo-telegraph.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/rohana-wijeweera-colombo-telegraph.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/rohana-wijeweera-colombo-telegraph-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is a tall <em>May <\/em>flower tree<br \/>\nJust by the 8th hole of Colombo Golf club<br \/>\nHe was tied to it and shot at dawn<\/p>\n<p>Sergeant of the Ops Combine team<br \/>\nShot him at point blank range<br \/>\nFirst round hit his head<br \/>\nSecond round to the chest<\/p>\n<p>Then, drag him to nearby Borella cemetery<br \/>\nHe was alive, breathing still\u2026..,<br \/>\nThey threw him into the oven of the crematorium, burnt him alive<br \/>\nWhile he tries to say please don\u2019t!!! barley raises his arm<br \/>\nDeath of the last Sinhalese Rebel was such&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The man who was born on Bastille Day<br \/>\nWas killed by the year of bicentenary celebration of the French Revolution\u2026..<\/p>\n<p><strong>By-Leel Pathirana<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For the 22<sup>nd<\/sup> death anniversary of Rohana Wijeweera, falls on 13<sup>th<\/sup> November 2011<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Patabendi Don Nandasiri Wijeweera <em>nom de guerre<\/em> Rohana Wijeweera was born on 14th July 1943 and killed by the United National Party (UNP) regime while in State Custody on the dawn of 13th November 1989 in Colombo. At the time of his death, he was the founder and the Chairman of the People\u2019s Liberation Front (JVP) Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the people, who are directly accountable for the murder of Rohana Wijeweera, were killed few years after his death including the Head of State. 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