{"id":210221,"date":"2020-05-05T10:43:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T05:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=210221"},"modified":"2020-05-06T02:23:34","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T20:53:34","slug":"infographic-gotabaya-rajapaksas-inner-circle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/infographic-gotabaya-rajapaksas-inner-circle\/","title":{"rendered":"Infographic: Gotabaya Rajapaksa&#8217;s Inner Circle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Gotabaya+Rajapaksa\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Gotabaya Rajapaksa<\/span><\/a> of Sri Lanka has appointed an alarming collection of alleged perpetrators of war crimes and bureaucrats previously accused of corruption to his new government, said the International Truth and Justice Project.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The legal research organisation published a trilingual <b>infographic <\/b>depicting President Rajapaksa\u2019s inner circle, which now includes six Generals and Brigadiers from the President\u2019s Gajaba Regiment, whom he has put in key positions like Commander of the<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Army, Chief of Defence Staff, Secretary of Defence and Chief of National Intelligence. Two of the Generals from the Gajaba Regiment served directly under Gotabaya Rajapaksa in 1989 in Matale District, when official records show at least seven hundred Sinhalese disappeared in army and police custody while he was the District Military Coordinator. Fourteen military and police officials now holding crucial official roles served under Gotabaya Rajapaksa during the civil war while he was the powerful and much feared secretary of defence.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cSri Lanka is now run by a collection of military officers many of whom will have to answer in a court one day for their complicity in the alleged killings of tens of thousands of their citizens in both 1989 and 2009, as well as alleged corruption,\u201d<\/i> said the Executive Director of the International Truth and Justice Project, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Yasmin+Sooka\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Yasmin Sooka<\/span><\/a>.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The international community previously invested in an ambitious transitional justice programme for Sri Lanka based on a series of joint UN Resolutions at the Human Rights Council in Geneva. Part of that was a commitment to security sector reform and the vetting and screening.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cWith army generals like these in power it is clear the country is not vetting and screening public officials for their human rights records. However it remains incumbent on member states who sponsored the Resolutions in Geneva to uphold these values,\u201d<\/i> said Sooka.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Infographic-By-ITJP-Gotabaya-Rajapaksas-inner-circle-english.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-210222\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Infographic-By-ITJP-Gotabaya-Rajapaksas-inner-circle-english.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"825\" height=\"1166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Infographic-By-ITJP-Gotabaya-Rajapaksas-inner-circle-english.jpg 595w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Infographic-By-ITJP-Gotabaya-Rajapaksas-inner-circle-english-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>INFORMATION REGARDING THE<\/b> <b>INFOGRAPHIC<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Individuals From Top Left to Right, anti-clockwise:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Lieutenant General Shavendra Silva: ITJP Dossier[1] and US Designation[2].<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Major General Satyapriya Liyanage: ITJP Dossier[3].<\/p>\n<p>Major General Kamal Gunaratne: ITJP Dossier[4].<\/p>\n<p>Brigadier Chandana Wickramasinghe: ITJP Dossier[5].<\/p>\n<p>Brigadier Priyanka Fernando: ITJP Dossier[6] and public order conviction in UK being appealed[7]<\/p>\n<p>Major General Karunaratne Banda Egodawela: ITJP Report[8] and corruption charges dropped[9].<\/p>\n<p>Admiral Jayanath Colombage: ITJP Report[10] and corruption charges dropped[11].<\/p>\n<p>Major General Daya Ratnayake: ITJP Dossier[12]<\/p>\n<p>Major General Nanda Mallawarchchi: ITJP Dossier[13].<\/p>\n<p>Major General Sumedha Perera: ITJP Dossier[14].<\/p>\n<p>Major General Vijitha Ravipriya: ITJP Dossier[15].<\/p>\n<p>Major General Dharshana Hettiarachchi: ITJP Dossier[16].<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Yapa Senadhipathi: ITJP Profile[17] in Report and on bail[18].<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Major General K. Jagath Alwis: ITJP Dossier[19].<\/p>\n<p>Brigadier Tuan Suresh Sallay: ITJP Confidential Testimony.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>ASP Prasanna de Alwis: ITJP Dossier[20].<\/p>\n<p><b>Brothers:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Gotabaya Rajapaksa: ITJP[21] and CJA[22] Court Cases in California, now dropped.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mahinda Rajapaksa: President 2005-15.<\/p>\n<p>Chamal Rajapaksa.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Gotabaya-Rajapaksa\u2019s-Inner-Circle.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-210227\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Gotabaya-Rajapaksa\u2019s-Inner-Circle.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"852\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Gotabaya-Rajapaksa\u2019s-Inner-Circle.jpeg 852w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Gotabaya-Rajapaksa\u2019s-Inner-Circle-300x154.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Gotabaya-Rajapaksa\u2019s-Inner-Circle-768x393.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 852px) 100vw, 852px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":210222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2186,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-featured-news","category-news","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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