{"id":175198,"date":"2017-03-18T10:30:50","date_gmt":"2017-03-18T05:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=175198"},"modified":"2017-03-19T00:18:44","modified_gmt":"2017-03-18T18:48:44","slug":"mangala-says-major-general-kamal-gunaratnes-road-to-nandikadal-is-the-biggest-betrayal-to-war-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/mangala-says-major-general-kamal-gunaratnes-road-to-nandikadal-is-the-biggest-betrayal-to-war-heroes\/","title":{"rendered":"Mangala Says Major General Kamal Gunaratne\u2019s \u2018Road To Nandikadal\u2019 Is The Biggest Betrayal To ‘War Heroes’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Serious misconduct including incidents of violence carried out by the army has been highlighted in Major General Kamal Gunaratne\u2019s \u2018Road to Nandikadal<\/a>\u2019 book, said Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera<\/a> recently.<\/p>\n

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Mangala Samaraweera<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cThis book basically confirms everything that the radical Tamil groups have been saying. We are going around telling the international community that there have been no war crimes, but this book gives information about how the army has been going around breaking houses, breaking legs and even killing,\u201d Samaraweera said.<\/p>\n

According to him, this book should not be titled \u2018Road to Nandikadal\u2019 instead it should be titled \u2018Road to Geval Kadal and Handi Kadal.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cThis book is the Army\u2019s biggest betrayal,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Citing reasons for his claim, Samaraweera reading out several excerpts from the book said that in one page Gunaratne said how the soldiers overcome with grief following the killing of their comrades, started stopping the busses on route to the counting centres and set fire to houses and destroying private property. In another excerpt, Gunaratne was quoted in his book as saying how witnessing a certain incident where angry soldiers behaved illegally by destroying private property in the Jaffna town to avenge the death of their comrade brought \u2018him satisfaction.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cGunaratne himself is saying the soldiers have behaved illegally. Here, we are going around saying that our Army is disciplined, but this war hero says that our army is acting illegally,\u201d Samaraweera said.<\/p>\n

He also added that in one section of the book, Gunaratne had said that he had encountered the disgraceful conduct of some rotten elements within the rank. \u201cSo, he himself admits that the army\u2019s conduct is disgraceful,\u201d Samaraweera said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe only this that can happen by saying and writing such stuff is to help whatever remains of the Eelam to become more powerful,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Samaraweera also said that they have received substantial proof which shows that the country\u2019s ex-Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his defence ministry was behind many of the killings and other forms of harassment and abuse during the previous government under Mahinda Rajapaksa.<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring Ekneligoda\u2019s investigation, one of the suspects said that the meeting with Ekneligoda was on the secretary\u2019s orders, and we all know the most powerful secretary during that time was Gotabaya Rajapaksa,\u201d Samaraweera said.<\/p>\n

He also lashed out at the Rajapaksa\u2019s saying that even though the Rajapaksa\u2019s portrait themselves as patriots; the truth is that the Rajapaksa\u2019s themselves earned money from the war. The MiG deal was one such incident, according to Samaraweera.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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