{"id":3695,"date":"2012-01-18T02:44:23","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T02:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/colombotelegraph.com\/?p=3695"},"modified":"2012-04-14T01:17:39","modified_gmt":"2012-04-14T01:17:39","slug":"wikileaks-gota-scared-of-jvp-jhu-and-nff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wikileaks-gota-scared-of-jvp-jhu-and-nff\/","title":{"rendered":"WikiLeaks: Gota Scared Of JVP, JHU And NFF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Colombo Telegraph &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/gota-colombotelegraph.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3698\" title=\"Gota colombotelegraph\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/gota-colombotelegraph.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"609\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/gota-colombotelegraph.jpg 609w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/gota-colombotelegraph-300x236.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 609px) 100vw, 609px\" \/><\/a><strong>\u201cAmbassador asked whether this message had been widely communicated to LTTE fighters at the front. Rajapaksa said that such offers had been quiet and implied that Sinhalese nationalist parties (JHU, NFF and JVP) would react loudly if such offers were publicized too widely\u201d the US Embassy Colombo informed Washington.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to an unclassified cable, which Colombo Telegraph found from the Wikileaks database, Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa offered amnesty to all LTTE fighters. The cable, written on April 15, 2009 recounts details of a meeting between Gotabhaya Rajapaksa and the US Ambassador in\u00a0Colombo Robert O. Blake.<\/p>\n<p>Under the subheading \u201cGotabhaya Repeats Amnesty Offer\u201d the ambassador wrote \u201cThe Defense Secretary also repeated that the GSL would be willing to offer amnesty to all LTTE fighters, save Prabakharan and Intelligence Chief Pottu Amman. Ambassador asked whether this message had been widely communicated to LTTE fighters at the front. Rajapaksa said that such offers had been quiet and implied that Sinhalese nationalist parties (JHU, NFF and JVP) would react loudly if such offers were publicized too widely. Ambassador noted that without a more public effort to communicate the offer of amnesty, the effectiveness of such a move would be muted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Below we give the relevant part of the cable;<\/p>\n<pre>O 151056Z APR 09\r\nFM AMEMBASSY COLOMBO\r\nTO SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 9797\r\nINFO AMEMBASSY ATHENS\r\nAMEMBASSY BANGKOK\r\nAMEMBASSY DHAKA\r\nAMEMBASSY ISLAMABAD\r\nAMEMBASSY KATHMANDU\r\nAMEMBASSY LONDON\r\nAMEMBASSY NEW DELHI\r\nAMEMBASSY OSLO\r\nAMEMBASSY TOKYO\r\nAMCONSUL CHENNAI\r\nAMCONSUL MUMBAI\r\nAMCONSUL TORONTO\r\nUSEU BRUSSELS\r\nUSMISSION USUN NEW YORK\r\nUSMISSION GENEVA\r\nHQ USPACOM HONOLULU HI\r\nDIA WASHINGTON DC\r\nNATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL WASHINGTON DC\r\nSECDEF WASHDC\r\nCDRUSARPAC FT SHAFTER HI\/\/APCW\/APOP\/\/\r\nCDR USPACOM HONOLULU HI\/\/J3\/J332\/J52\/\/\r\nUNCLAS COLOMBO 000418\r\n\r\nSENSITIVE\r\n\r\nSTATE FOR SCA (BOUCHER), SCA\/INS AND PRM\r\nSTATE ALSO PASS USAID\r\nAID\/W FOR ANE\/SCA, DCHA\/FFP (DWORKEN, KSHEIN)\r\nAID\/W FOR DCHA\/OFDA (MORRISP, ACONVERY, RTHAYER, RKERR)\r\nATHENS FOR PCARTER\r\nBANGKOK FOR USAID\/DCHA\/OFDA (WBERGER)\r\nKATHMANDU FOR USAID\/DCHA\/OFDA AND POL (SBERRY)\r\nGENEVA FOR RMA (NKYLOH, NHILGERT, MPITOTTI)\r\nUSUN NEW YORK FOR ECOSOC (D MERCADO)\r\nSECDEF FOR OSD - POLICY\r\nPACOM ALSO FOR J-5\r\n\r\nE.O. 12958: N\/A\r\nTAGS: <a href=\"http:\/\/wikileaks.org\/tag\/PREF_0.html\">PREF<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/wikileaks.org\/tag\/MOPS_0.html\">MOPS<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/wikileaks.org\/tag\/PHUM_0.html\">PHUM<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/wikileaks.org\/tag\/PGOV_0.html\">PGOV<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/wikileaks.org\/tag\/PREL_0.html\">PREL<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/wikileaks.org\/tag\/ASEC_0.html\">ASEC<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/wikileaks.org\/tag\/CE_0.html\">CE<\/a>\r\nSUBJECT: Northern Sri Lanka SitRep 53\r\n\r\nRef:  A) Colombo 414  B) Colombo 413  C) Colombo 412  D) Colombo 411\r\n E) Colombo 402  F) Colombo 401  G) Colombo 400  H) Colombo 396  I)\r\nColombo 393  J) Colombo 384  K) Colombo 374  L) Colombo 368  M)\r\nColombo 361\r\nGotabhaya Repeats Amnesty Offer\r\n-------------------------------\r\n\r\n<a id=\"par3\" href=\"http:\/\/wikileaks.org\/cable\/2009\/04\/09COLOMBO418.html#par3\">\u00b6<\/a>3. 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Ambassador noted that\r\nwithout a more public effort to communicate the offer of amnesty,\r\nthe effectiveness of such a move would be muted.\r\nBLAKE<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":3698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1,63,26,27],"tags":[1808,1139,1161,1134,1809,1174,1810,1811,1298,1475,6983],"class_list":["post-3695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-disappearance","category-news","category-politics-2","category-war-crimes","category-wikileaks","tag-amnesty","tag-democracy","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-human-rights","tag-jhu","tag-jvp","tag-nff","tag-sinhalese-nationalists","tag-sri-lankans-in-wikileaks","tag-war-against-ltte","tag-war-crimes"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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