{"id":85081,"date":"2013-05-02T03:56:03","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T22:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=85081"},"modified":"2013-05-07T22:54:43","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T17:24:43","slug":"wikileaks-installing-criminal-devananda-as-the-head-of-a-quisling-tamil-regime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wikileaks-installing-criminal-devananda-as-the-head-of-a-quisling-tamil-regime\/","title":{"rendered":"WikiLeaks: Installing Criminal Devananda As The Head Of A &#8216;Quisling&#8217; Tamil Regime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;The leader of the Eelam People&#8217;s Democratic Party (EDPD), Douglas Devananda, has a long history of enmity with the recently defeated Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. He has been a favorite of successive Sri Lankan governments in Colombo. But Devananda has a violent and even criminal history, and shows few signs of reforming. While close ties continue between the top levels of the GSL and Devananda, we may be seeing an adjustment to that relationship as &#8220;Colonel Karuna&#8221; continues to strengthen his position with President Rajapaksa and his powerful brother, Defense Secretary Gothabaya Rajapaksa, possibly at Devananda&#8217;s expense. The GSL may attempt to install Devananda as the leader of a new provincial government in the North through early elections there, or as the head of an interim administration.&#8221; the US Embassy Colombo informed Washington.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_85083\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wikileaks-installing-criminal-devananda-as-the-head-of-a-quisling-tamil-regime\/douglas-devananda-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-85083\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-85083\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85083\" title=\"Douglas Devananda\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Douglas-Devananda.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Douglas-Devananda.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Douglas-Devananda-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-85083\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Douglas and Rajapaksa<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The US Embassy wrote; &#8220;This would help the government to maintain its iron grip on Jaffna and the North, but also might tend to pin down Devananda and his paramilitary forces, leaving Karuna a freer hand in the rest of Sri Lanka. The Rajapaksas may be trying to clear the way for Karuna and his paramilitary cadres to become the undisputed nationalforce for unofficial internal control of the Tamil population. However, Devananda still enjoys a privileged position within the GSL, as evidenced by a meeting the Sri Lankan Ambassador to the U.S. insisted on arranging with Representative Heath Shuler during the latter&#8217;s recent visit to Sri Lanka. Absent any indication that Devananda has sworn off his violent tactics, Embassy has privately pushed the Sri Lankan government not to install a Devananda-led regime in the north. In light of Devananda&#8217;s lack of legitimate popular support, we remain concerned that local or provincial-level elections held hastily in the North could be manipulated to put Devananda and the EPDP into power at the expense of legitimate Tamil representatives, thereby undermining the post-conflict reconciliation process.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/\">Colombo Telegraph<\/a><\/span> found the leaked cable from the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/category\/wikileaks\/\">WikiLeak<\/a><\/span> database. The classified \u00a0\u201cCONFIDENTIAL\u201d cable\u00a0was written on June 19, 2009 and signed by Charge D\u2019Affaires James R. Moore.<\/p>\n<p>Moore wrote; &#8220;Further, placing Devananda in power in the North might serve to preoccupy him with events and operations there, clearing the way for Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan, a\/k\/a &#8216;Colonel Karuna Amman&#8217; to further solidify his position country-wide. The Ministry of Defense, especially the President&#8217;s powerful brother, Defense Secretary Gothabaya Rajapaksa, appears to strongly prefer former TMVP leader Karuna &#8211; now a member of the President&#8217;s Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) &#8211; as his go-to man for both Tamil politics and &#8216;unofficial&#8217; security operations. Embassy contacts report the Rajapaksa brothers have recently shown a clear preference for Karuna over Devananda. The President recently elevated Karuna to Minister for National Integration. However, Karuna has yet to develop popular backing in the North, since he is an Easterner, whose Tamil dialect and traditions are distinctly different from the Tamils of Jaffna and the Vanni.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Placing a comment Moore wrote; &#8220;It is still unclear what the field of competing parties will be during the next cycle of local and provincial elections in the North &#8211; and which candidates will dare stand against the EPDP. The UNP complained on June 15th of &#8220;armed groups&#8221; threatening its candidates in an attempt to prevent them from contesting the Jaffna Municipal Council and Vavuniya Urban Council elections in August. It comes as no surprise, however, that the end of regular combat between GSL forces and the LTTE would lead to a turf battle between the GSL&#8217;s disparate ethnic Tamil allies. Post has been extremely candid in private discussions with the GSL leadership concerning our reservations about a significant role for Devananda in a new administration for the North. In our assessment, it is unlikely he has much legitimate popular support. We have brushed aside past suggestions that we fund the organizations he sponsors. We have told senior interlocutors (including Devananda himself) that the violence of its armed wing&#8217;s tactics and the continuing criminal activities of EPDP cadres in Jaffna and Colombo would pose serious obstacles to U.S. cooperation with a provincial government led by him, or working in conjunction with an EPDP-led northern administration on reconstruction efforts. There are some recent signs that the GSL leadership, concerned about losing international assistance for the north, may be having second thoughts about installing Devananda as the head of a &#8220;quisling&#8221; Tamil regime.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the cable below for further details;<\/p>\n<pre>VZCZCXRO2781\r\nPP RUEHBI\r\nDE RUEHLM #0624\/01 1700419\r\nZNY SSSSS ZZH\r\nP 190419Z JUN 09\r\nFM AMEMBASSY COLOMBO\r\nTO RUEHC\/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 0128\r\nINFO RUEHKA\/AMEMBASSY DHAKA 1745\r\nRUEHIL\/AMEMBASSY ISLAMABAD 8757\r\nRUEHKT\/AMEMBASSY KATHMANDU 6995\r\nRUEHLO\/AMEMBASSY LONDON 5040\r\nRUEHNE\/AMEMBASSY NEW DELHI 3129\r\nRUEHNY\/AMEMBASSY OSLO 4999\r\nRUEHOT\/AMEMBASSY OTTAWA 1278\r\nRUEHKO\/AMEMBASSY TOKYO 4105\r\nRUEHCG\/AMCONSUL CHENNAI 9372\r\nRUEHBI\/AMCONSUL MUMBAI 6677\r\nRUEHON\/AMCONSUL TORONTO 1204\r\nRUEKJCS\/SECDEF WASHDC\r\nRHEFDIA\/DIA WASHINGTON DC\r\nRHEHAAA\/NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL WASHINGTON DC\r\nRUEHBS\/USEU BRUSSELS\r\nRUEHGV\/USMISSION GENEVA 3602\r\nRHHMUNA\/HQ USPACOM HONOLULU HI<\/pre>\n<pre>S E C R E T SECTION 01 OF 03 COLOMBO 000624 \r\n\r\nSIPDIS \r\n\r\nE.O. 12958: DECL: 06\/18\/2024\r\nTAGS: PGOV PHUM PREL PTER PINR EAID CE\r\nSUBJECT: SRI LANKA: DOUGLAS DEVANANDA - GOVERNMENT'S MAN\r\nFOR THE NORTH? \r\n\r\nREF: 2007 COLOMBO 728 \r\n\r\nClassified By: Acting DCM Michael DeTar, for reasons 1.4 (b and d) \r\n\r\n\u00b61. (S) SUMMARY:  The leader of the Eelam People's Democratic\r\nParty (EDPD), Douglas Devananda, has a long history of enmity\r\nwith the recently defeated Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.\r\nHe has  been a favorite of successive Sri Lankan governments\r\nin Colombo.  But Devananda has a violent and even criminal\r\nhistory, and shows few signs of reforming.  While close ties\r\ncontinue between the top levels of the GSL and Devananda, we\r\nmay be seeing an adjustment to that relationship as \"Colonel\r\nKaruna\" continues to strengthen his position with President\r\nRajapaksa and his powerful brother, Defense Secretary\r\nGothabaya Rajapaksa, possibly at Devananda's expense.  The\r\nGSL may attempt to install Devananda as the leader of a new\r\nprovincial government in the North through early elections\r\nthere, or as the head of an interim administration.  This\r\nwould help the government to maintain its iron grip on Jaffna\r\nand the North, but also might tend to pin down Devananda and\r\nhis paramilitary forces, leaving Karuna a freer hand in the\r\nrest of Sri Lanka.  The Rajapaksas may be trying to clear the\r\nway for Karuna and his paramilitary cadres to become the\r\nundisputed nationalforce for unofficial internal control of\r\nthe Tamil population.  However, Devananda still enjoys a\r\nprivileged position within the GSL, as evidenced by a meeting\r\nthe Sri Lankan Ambassador to the U.S. insisted on arranging\r\nwith Representative Heath Shuler during the latter's recent\r\nvisit to Sri Lanka.  Absent any indication that Devananda has\r\nsworn off his violent tactics, Embassy has privately pushed\r\nthe Sri Lankan government not to install a Devananda-led\r\nregime in the north.  In light of Devananda's lack of\r\nlegitimate popular support, we remain concerned that local or\r\nprovincial-level elections held hastily in the North could be\r\nmanipulated to put Devananda and the EPDP into power at the\r\nexpense of legitimate Tamil representatives, thereby\r\nundermining the post-conflict reconciliation process.  End\r\nSummary. \r\n\r\nTURNING POINT FOR GSL TAMIL ALLIES \r\n\r\n\u00b62.  (S) With the military campaign against the LTTE now over,\r\nsenior leaders within the GSL are turning their attention to\r\nthe post-conflict political landscape.  The GSL is - as it\r\nwas in the East - anxious to confer a veneer of democratic\r\nlegitimacy on its administration of the Northern Province by\r\nholding early elections there.  While it plans to begin with\r\nelections to municipal councils in Vavuniya and Jaffna, it\r\nmay soon move to hold an election for the Provincial Council\r\nas well - long before it completes the return of the\r\nwar-displaced to their areas of origin.  The GSL recognizes\r\nthe need for Tamil leadership in the nearly 100%\r\nTamil-inhabited north - but it will want to retain a high\r\ndegree of control over any provincial government or interim\r\nadministration it installs there.  Post has previously\r\nreported (ref A) that the GSL is likely to place Douglas\r\nDevananda in some position of power in the North in order to\r\naccomplish this.  Since Devananda has long been a rival to\r\nthe LTTE, this could possibly help to further reduce the LTTE\r\nprospects for a resurgence in Jaffna and the Vanni.  It would\r\nalso give the GSL a loyal partner in controlling the economy\r\nand civil society there, through the EPDP's well-established\r\nparamilitary methods, including abductions, extrajudicial\r\nkillings, and widespread extortion and protection rackets. \r\n\r\n\u00b63.  (S) Further, placing Devananda in power in the North\r\nmight serve to preoccupy him with events and operations\r\nthere, clearing the way for Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan,\r\na\/k\/a \"Colonel Karuna Amman\" to further solidify his position\r\ncountry-wide.  The Ministry of Defense, especially the\r\nPresident's powerful brother, Defense Secretary Gothabaya\r\nRajapaksa, appears to strongly prefer former TMVP leader\r\nKaruna  - now a member of the President's Sri Lanka Freedom\r\nParty (SLFP) - as his go-to man for both Tamil politics and \r\n\r\nCOLOMBO 00000624  002 OF 003 \r\n\r\n\"unofficial\" security operations.  Embassy contacts report\r\nthe Rajapaksa brothers have recently shown a clear preference\r\nfor Karuna over Devananda.  The President recently elevated\r\nKaruna to Minister for National Integration.  However, Karuna\r\nhas yet to develop popular backing in the North, since he is\r\nan Easterner, whose Tamil dialect and traditions are\r\ndistinctly different from the Tamils of Jaffna and the Vanni. \r\n\r\nDEVANANDA NOT LIKELY TO FADE AWAY \r\n\r\n\u00b64.  (C) Still, Devananda is not lacking in well-placed\r\nfriends, and retains a fair amount of clout within the\r\ngovernment.  The EPDP's base in Colombo's many ethnic Tamil\r\nneighborhoods remains strong, and Devananda is unlikely to\r\ncede quietly the extortion revenue or the political influence\r\nhe has developed in the capital.  The recent visit of U.S.\r\nCongressman Heath Shuler to Sri Lanka provided an example.\r\nWhile visiting the large IDP camps in Vavuniya, Sri Lankan\r\nAmbassador to the U.S. Wickramasuriya pressed hard for a\r\nmeeting with Devananda.  Embassy had advised Representative\r\nShuler to avoid such a meeting, but Wickramasuriya insisted\r\nit was important to meet with Devananda, given his position\r\nas Minister of Social Services - and his future role in any\r\nreconciliation process as one of the very few ethnic Tamil\r\nmembers of the Government.  Wickramasuriya told the\r\nCongressman and his staff that he had personally arranged the\r\nmeeting, and that to cancel it would be an embarrassment.\r\nThe Congressman finally agreed to meet Devananda, on\r\ncondition that it be brief, with no photographers present.\r\nDevananda spoke largely of the need to implement the 13th\r\nAmendment, which would devolve more power to the provincial\r\nlevel - an advantage for Devananda should he eventually\r\nbecome the leader of the North.  A meeting for the\r\nCongressman with Karuna was originally scheduled for later\r\nthat same day, but was dropped upon request from the\r\nCongressman - without any similar protest by Wickramasuriya. \r\n\r\nDUBIOUS ELECTORAL SUPPORT \r\n\r\n\u00b65.  (C) Devananda has a long history of involvement in Tamil\r\npolitics, and in making deals with successive Sri Lankan\r\ngovernments.  A rival of the LTTE since the 1980s, he first\r\nstruck a bargain with President Ranasinghe Premadasa, and was\r\nelected as an MP in 1994.  Working with the Sri Lankan Navy,\r\nhis EPDP forces have long dominated several islands near\r\nJaffna (Kayts, Delft, Punguduthivu), reportedly engaging in\r\nlarge-scale vote-tampering to win elections there.  In 1998,\r\nthe EPDP contested Local Authority elections in Jaffna and\r\nthe neighboring islands, winning a suspiciously large\r\nmajority of votes.  In 1999, Devananda courted Chandrika\r\nKumaratunga. During the Presidential election, he was able to\r\nbring in over 50,000 votes for her in Jaffna under\r\nquestionable circumstances. (Note: in other regions, the\r\nentire Tamil community voted solidly for Kumaratunga's\r\nopponent.)  During the 2000 Parliamentary elections there\r\nwere widespread charges of election tampering.  The EPDP\r\nreportedly obtained votes through cash bribes and offers of\r\nemployment. \r\n\r\n\u00b66.  (S) COMMENT:  It is still unclear what the field of\r\ncompeting parties will be during the next cycle of local and\r\nprovincial elections in the North - and which candidates will\r\ndare stand against the EPDP.  The UNP complained on June 15th\r\nof \"armed groups\" threatening its candidates in an attempt to\r\nprevent them from contesting the Jaffna Municipal Council and\r\nVavuniya Urban Council elections in August.  It comes as no\r\nsurprise, however, that the end of regular combat between GSL\r\nforces and the LTTE would lead to a turf battle between the\r\nGSL's disparate ethnic Tamil allies.  Post has been extremely\r\ncandid in private discussions with the GSL leadership\r\nconcerning our reservations about a significant role for\r\nDevananda in a new administration for the North.  In our\r\nassessment, it is unlikely he has much legitimate popular\r\nsupport.  We have brushed aside past suggestions that we fund \r\n\r\nCOLOMBO 00000624  003 OF 003 \r\n\r\nthe organizations he sponsors.  We have told senior\r\ninterlocutors (including Devananda himself) that the violence\r\nof its armed wing's tactics and the continuing criminal\r\nactivities of EPDP cadres in Jaffna and Colombo would pose\r\nserious obstacles to U.S. cooperation with a provincial\r\ngovernment led by him, or working in conjunction with an\r\nEPDP-led northern administration on reconstruction efforts.\r\nThere are some recent signs that the GSL leadership,\r\nconcerned about losing international assistance for the\r\nnorth, may be having second thoughts about installing\r\nDevananda as the head of a \"quisling\" Tamil regime.\r\nMOORE<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":85082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2187,1,2375,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-most-popular","category-news","category-stories","category-wikileaks"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>WikiLeaks: Installing Criminal Devananda As The Head Of A &#039;Quisling&#039; 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