{"id":81163,"date":"2013-04-07T19:32:48","date_gmt":"2013-04-07T19:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=81163"},"modified":"2013-04-16T12:12:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T06:42:00","slug":"i-was-sent-back-when-i-went-to-meet-lt-colonel-gotabaya-to-plead-the-release-of-my-sons-a-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/i-was-sent-back-when-i-went-to-meet-lt-colonel-gotabaya-to-plead-the-release-of-my-sons-a-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I Was Sent Back When I Went To Meet Lt. Colonel Gotabaya To Plead The Release Of My Sons’ – A Mother"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Colombo Telegraph<\/a><\/span> –<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ceylon Today newspaper on Sunday published a harrowing tale of a mother whose two teenage sons were abducted by the military on December 13, 1989 and how she was turned back when she went to see then military coordinating officer of Matale<\/a><\/span>, Lt Colonel Gotabaya Rajapaksa<\/a><\/span> to plead for the release of her two detained sons. Her sons never came home again and Gotabaya Rajapaksa later left the army and domiciled in the United States of America. He returned to Sri Lanka upon the election of his brother Mahinda Rajapaksa<\/a><\/span> and is now the powerful secretary to the ministry of defence. We reproduced the full story below, which first appeared in Ceylon Today dated April 7, 2013.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWe were at a loss. Here, Mahinda Rajapaksa was campaigning on behalf of the children who had\u00a0 been abducted, and I could not believe that his brother was in the Army at the same time,\u201d the mother said.<\/p>\n

By Ranga Jayasuriya<\/a><\/span> –<\/strong><\/p>\n

A grieving mother of two teenage sons who were abducted by the Army in 1989, narrates how she was stopped and sent back when she went to meet then Military Coordinating Officer (MCO) for Matale,\u00a0Lt. Col. Gotabhaya Rajapaksa.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Gotabaya Rajapaksa - Top Left<\/p><\/div>\n

The two teenage sons of K.G. Kamalawathi were snatched by the soldiers who arrived at her residence during a notorious \u2018military round up\u2019 of local youth on 13 December 1989. The two teenagers, Susantha Janaka (18) and Rohana Nishantha (17), were GCE Advanced Level students at Science College and Vijaya Vidyalaya, Matale.<\/p>\n

The two boys were having their lunch when the military unceremoniously entered their home at Warakanda Watta, Ukuwela, Matale, and took them to the Rest House Camp, near Vijaya Vidyalaya, which was located in the vicinity of the current mass grave<\/a><\/span> at the backyard of the Matale Hospital, from where 154 skeleton remains dating back to 1986-89 as stated in the investigations, had been uncovered.<\/p>\n

\u201cThirteen other boys from the village were also taken on by the Army that day,\u201d recalls Kamalawathi.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen my children were taken by the Army, I followed them. They were taken to the Rest House Camp, located near Vijaya Vidyalaya. I asked that I be allowed to talk to my sons, but the soldiers refused.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Kamalawathi - the mother<\/p><\/div>\n

Kamalawathi visited the Army camp the following day and once again she had been denied permission to see her sons.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn the third day, a soldier read out from a list the names of the children who had been held in the camp. Some names had been cut off with a red pen and the names of my two sons had also been cut off, in red,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Kamalawathi had arrived in Matale only four months before, after being driven away from Pulmudai by the Tamil Tigers<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy husband was dead and I was looking after four children on my own,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n

Kamalawathi had pleaded with a soldier, who she remembers as U.P.R Perera, to be allowed to see her sons. He had gone into the camp and had returned to tell her that her two sons were kept in the camp, but she could not be allowed to see them.<\/p>\n

No one to turn to<\/strong><\/p>\n

A grieving widowed mother, who was new to Matale, she had no one to turn to, for help.<\/p>\n

It was at that point she had come to know that Nandimithra\u00a0 Ekanayake, now a minister of the current government, was helping the families of the disappeared.<\/p>\n

She sought his help and he had promised to do \u2018whatever he could,\u2019 recalls Kamalawathi.<\/p>\n

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Rohana Nishantha<\/p><\/div>\n

Nandimitra Ekanayake had subsequently told her that he sent his secretary to the Rest House Camp and that her two sons had been held there.<\/p>\n

Later, he told her to go and meet the Military Coordinating Officer who was identified as Gotabhaya Rajapaksa.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were at a loss. Here, Mahinda Rajapaksa was campaigning on behalf of the children who had\u00a0 been abducted, and I could not believe that his brother was in the Army at the same time,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

However, she decided to go and meet him. Nandimithra had told her that he had contacted Gotabhaya Rajapaksa over the two detained youth.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut, when I went to meet him, I was stopped at the gate by a soldier called Corporal Silva. He told me I could not meet the MCO and I was ordered to leave the place,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Devastated, Kamalawathi continued to visit the\u00a0 Rest House camp every day from the day her children had been taken by the Army.<\/p>\n

The soldiers had \u2018tricked\u2019 her by sending her to different camps that dotted Matale at the time, claiming that her two sons were transferred from one\u00a0 camp to another.<\/p>\n

She pleaded for help from the Red Cross and wrote to UN agencies for help, some of which acknowledged the receipt of her letters. But, no one could get her children released from military custody. Months later, some local boys were released from military custody. They told her that they, along with her sons, had been taken to the \u2018Red Bana Camp,\u2019 and that they also spent time in a military camp, which was operating from Vijaya Vidyalaya, where the Gajaba Regiment was alleged to have operated a torture<\/a><\/span> chamber.<\/p>\n

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Susantha Janaka<\/p><\/div>\n

However, her two sons never returned and Kamalawathi, shattered and helpless, had given up on her search.<\/p>\n

Later, when the Chandrika Kumaratunga<\/a><\/span> administration offered death certificates for the disappeared youth, she refused to accept death certificates for her two sons.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am coming forward now to tell the story because I want justice for my sons. I don\u2019t know whether justice will ever be delivered,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Several years after the abduction of her two sons, Alick Aluvihare, the UNP strongman at the time in Matale had contacted Kamalawathi.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe asked me why I did not tell him about my sons. He could have saved them, he said. But how could I seek help from those who commissioned the crime. It was they who had authorized those crimes,\u201d she added. By now, she may know that it was not only the\u00a0 Aluvihares who were behind the incident. There are others too, some of who still remain all powerful.<\/p>\n

\u2018It could have been an exception\u2019<\/p>\n

When Ceylon Today contacted Minister Nandimithra Ekanayake, he said he could not remember this particular incident involving Mrs.\u00a0 Kamalawathi, but added that he took up \u2018countless\u2019 cases of disappearances of local youth at that time.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was the only MP elected from the Opposition; the other four parliamentarians were from the UNP,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He also said Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, the Military Coordinating Officer of Matale at that time, had been very \u2018cooperative\u2019 (towards him) and \u2018kind\u2019 to the detained youth.<\/p>\n

Even those youth who committed \u2018the worst offences\u2019 had been sent to rehabilitation camps, he said, adding, \u201cThat particular instance, (Kamalawathi\u2019s) could have been an exception.\u201d<\/p>\n

Related stories;<\/strong><\/p>\n

Help Me Find My Brother From Matale Mass Grave \u2013 Says A Brother<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Matale Mass Grave Dates To 87-90 JVP, Says Judge<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Video: Sri Lanka Mass Grave Called \u2018A Crime Site\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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