{"id":1785,"date":"2011-11-14T06:13:14","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T06:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/colombotelegraph.com\/?p=1785"},"modified":"2014-12-08T18:20:14","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T12:50:14","slug":"video-hirunika-premachandra-condemns-gotabhaya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/video-hirunika-premachandra-condemns-gotabhaya\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Hirunika Premachandra Condemns Gotabaya"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1788\" style=\"width: 249px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/hirunika-premachandra-colombo-telegraph.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1788\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1788 \" title=\"Hirunika Premachandra - Colombo Telegraph\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/hirunika-premachandra-colombo-telegraph.jpg\" width=\"239\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/hirunika-premachandra-colombo-telegraph.jpg 239w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/hirunika-premachandra-colombo-telegraph-175x300.jpg 175w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1788\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hirunika &#8211; Now the politics is equal to underworld and money and politicians are like jokers<\/p><\/div>\n<p>By Colombo Telegraph &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hirunika Premachandra condemned Defence Secretary Gorabaya Rajapaksa&#8217;s recent statement that \u201cone cannot do politics in Colombo without thuggary and underworld\u201d.<\/strong> She also condemned the transfer of police officer Hettiarachchi \u00a0Samudrajeewa, who was handling the investigation of the assassination of former PA MP Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra.<\/p>\n<p>Daughter of the murdered Bahratha Lakshman Premachandra, \u00a0Hirunika Premachandra reveals how her farther\u2019s murder was planed and deployed. Giving an interview to Sirasa TV she says as a law student she can say Duminda Silva is a suspect of her father\u2019s murder. She says impunity is continues in Sri Lanka and people forget everything within days.\u00a0She expresses her concern not only her father&#8217;s murder but other issues like Sunday Leader Editor Lasantha Wickrematunge murder and the disappearance of Prageeth Ekanaligoda. She said so far no one brought to justice re these issues.<\/p>\n<p>she says the law in Sri Lanka is not properly functioning, money and thugs and the underworld are controlling the country.<\/p>\n<p>When answering the question whether she is going to enter the politics she says \u201cyes, but this is not the right time, now the politics is equal to underworld and money and politicians are like jokers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra\u2019s daughter has clearly stated they she has no confidence in the Sri Lankan system and would \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesundayleader.lk\/2011\/10\/23\/place-duminda-silva-under-arrest-%E2%80%93-bharatha%E2%80%99s-family\/\" target=\"_blank\">go outside and ask for justice<\/a>\u201c.<\/p>\n<p>To read more about Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra murder click <a href=\"http:\/\/colombotelegraph.com\/\/?s=Bharatha+lakshman\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We reproduced below the 45 minutes Sinhala video<\/p>\n<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=CKllC3oQfYA#!]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":1788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,57,1,8],"tags":[6986,1143,1230,1236,1139,1220,1258,1134,1443,1145],"class_list":["post-1785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-judiciary","category-law-and-order","category-news","category-editorial","tag-anti-corruption","tag-authoritarianism","tag-bharatha-lakshman-premachandra","tag-bharatha-lakshman-shooting","tag-democracy","tag-gotabhaya-rajapaksa","tag-hirunika-premachandra","tag-human-rights","tag-impunity","tag-left-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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