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Sector". Recently this respected
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*P. A. MI Ster
كانت تتمكنت ستنتج تقنياته "A singular vote of confidence" announced a proud Prof. G.L. Pieris, the of Justice and Constitutional Affairs when the Paris "Aid Sri Lanka" consortium pledged 860 million U.S. Dollars, 17 million more tham last years. Mr.Rønnie de Mel was not impressed. The Minister of Finance in President Jayewardene's ad Tir istration Was ni Core the le SS pleased. "Anything that is good for the country is welcome as far as we in the U.N. Pare con Cermed, We Wanta strong economy when we take over the reins, which Will happer SOO her than later. We certainly do not Want a completely broken down and stagnant economy, which of course is what happened in 1977" he told the WEEKEND EXPRESS.
Was the laid-adequate in the present circumstances, what with the defence Wote Sabaring? "Noit is - Certainly not enough.......nothing to crow about" he scoffed. He reminded reporter John Regis that the U.N.P. had received over 1:2 billion dollars quite often, andonce a staggering 2.4 billions. "I had to take less than what was offered because Sri Lanka simply could not absorball the aid that was offered". Loyal PA. supporters may be inclined to dismiss the Former Finance Minister's comment as plainly partisal but I don't believe that sort of charge Could be
लामाण्डवहाहा
was stripped of ОпI course, it was all nice ES ft Board Of TWI OS LOW the hed remove any boards P.A. caught the C ity by Stחuוחחחס:) umprovoked a SSau Sector, the former ROrie d3M3 S1 benches. "You shot. jaws drop" said. af describing the real beches when Mr tabled a confidential a polite request for fu in HANSARDIM his audience by clair was surprised to di billion rupees. Spen NOT included cat wä5-out of t SUNDAY LEADEF Walliere. It certainly to find Mr. Mel offe
a lap.
The P.A.'s claims of economic stability
in the I.M.F. at all. Or
report argued that
termi macro econc remain elusive wit adjustment to reduct large clair on resol WBSCOWill:8 th
levelled at a emerging group of bright, situation has deter
hard-no5 ed and dynamic : " new generation" of businessmen and
economic analysts, Arjuna Mahendran
is a fair exar ple, This senior regional economist of Crosby Securities speaks of a "cash crunch" which has seriously affected the capacity of the private sector to respond to the incentives that Prof. Pieris has sensibly offered.
For the older generation in the world of commerce and high finance, Mr. Patrick Amerasinghe, President of the Federation of Commerce, Trade and Industry (FCCTI) was "Mr. Private
( bre leader was stunned when he
сагe to exposet government's inac COTEC. Defence S and power shortag Contributory, facto ECOOCECC popularly elected ad mowe cautiously. NC
Human Rights The Secretary {
International Comm (ICJ), Mr, Adams Die CDICErn DWBrinWEsti unlawful receiptofs U.N. P. MP Dr. Jayali Candidate Chandrike
 
 

if is titles. Of - and legal. Section Estment (BOI) Law
of government to TETHETELItiftlé olombo business urprise. With its lt | O Mr. Priwat
Filace Minister led the P.A., uld hawe Seen the 1. Opposition MP, Ct). Of the P.A. De Melicalmly
MF) report with
its publication in In DeMelstunned ming that the l. M. F SCOWT that lewer
o difeCe ad irth the b) Ludgetl The he bagi Said the R'S Winst
was.......... only it a Comfortable
growth and macrohad not impressed the contrary, the "ower the medium mic stability will hout major fiscal 2 the government's urces". The I.M.F. at the economic TatEdit dit he culprit: The equate financial pending, drought
es were the main
's. In such bleak тnstances, 3 апү iiStratiO; Would it, alas the P.A.
Ggara li fi the ission of Jurists тghas”вxpressed gation into alleged alarүрауппапts by ith, Jayawardenв". I Kumaratunga and
the P.A. did campaign strongly on the "human rights" issue in the 19931994 polls, provincial parliamentary and presidential. And there cable little doubt about the response of the electorate. The P.A. and its leadership did have credibility. It is precisely that fact which makes the I.C.J. statement a particularly di Sappointirhg development, and cause for reflection, In two years, the P.A.'s sources of strength have become rather obvious areas of vulnerability. Performance has mot matched promise; special strengths have become flanks,
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SHA Mohamef Special Correspondent KM de Silwa
Stanley Kalpage
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Corruption Charges
President's J.R.'s "open economy" Was an open invitation to the "quick Toney mob and the "robber barons". On that, the island's first Executive President had no illusions as he freely admitted to this journal in on-the-record conversations. The cynic in him could say Operly: "Let the Tobber barons come 'The P.A."stri pod Transparency. Accountability and Good Goverflarice – – was in fact the selfrighteous response of those "thinktanks" which made the largest Contribution to the P.A. manifesto. When a group of backroom 'Strategists' decided to project a new image of candidate Chandrika, their first move was to present her to an elite audience business elite rather than academic) at the ballroom of a posh Colombo hotel. The imagebuilders, some of who were lapsed "Leftists", were quite clever. Having decided that "market e Cor Comics" had
Ebecome the sole option, they realised
that the P.A. cannot possibly "sel" capitalism or private enterprise more Credibly than the U.N.P., the traditional spokesman of Sri Lankan capital, such as it was. So "capitalism" or private enterprise with "not a human face" but with T.A.G.G. (transparency etc. etc.).
Last Week the Opposition Called fora Earliamentary debate on the sale of 90% of the Ceylon Steel Corporation, the creature of an SLFP regime, supported by the main leftists parties, the LSSP and the CP parties now members of the PA. The UNP has been joined by an odd group of supporters
Mr. Wasudeva Nanayakkara the LSSP
firebrand, the EPDP., the former separatist Tamil guerrilla group, the TULF, the main Tamil parliamentarist party. The issue is the sale of 90% of the Steel Corporation to a South Korean firm, for RS840 Tilion. One of the thirteen UNP MP's who signed a lėtter to the Speaker, Mr. Mahinda Samarasingha has claimed that the sale will mean a loss of about a billion TU peĒS. In 1993 - 4 ibi dS = from a Japanese firm werg over 960 million! The image of the PA hardly reflects the Solemn pledges of transparency
and a CCOUntability Staunch PA
supporters' grumble more and more.
Supreme Court
In the latest develop Hu Iftsdorp bat appointment of Bardarana yake tot the SLFP Lawyers Writt tot C resolutions to be a Council would arto Court, the Sunda) front-page report.T that the fout Tg8 discussed soon. appointment (2) ur Welcome the new, MS. Shiraee Banda her resignation an Chief Justice lot to Which in CLI de 5
Mr. Desmond Fernal elected Presidentio criticised the behi, PA lawyers. While dÖLhtlBS5 bgdebate the serious observer must examie their is plainly the all
Two spells
as that wa Апс пту дег
Опе үeаг па The pre-elect Was my firs slėpt aloric With the wir Om the Cour
My senior to FÖLJT t FS A gГвеп рат
And the old That ha lati
Polling was
But I strong M"MVg3re impErs li tips Lif
With the ball swerved in Where Histo Limıe mime3, hi
Why these it Lis SCIft Di LOWE, before am forgive Today, when
J. KasLJInštila
 
 
 
 

ma
professional elite and the middle-class
ment in the heated intelligentsia by a PA that swept to
les : Qwer the Prof, Sh i Ta rn e e le Supreme Cout,
Association has lief Justice that iopted by the Bar Int to contempt of
Island said in a e Association says olutions Will be |). Condemns the es the Bar NOT to Judge (3) calls on ranayaka to submit (4) requests the Costitute a bench the new judge. ldo PC, the newly f literational Baf гіошг of soппе ргоthese issues will d immarny a forum, of national politics
plications of what
enation of the
power with the sympathy and unstinted support of these important opinion-making groups. And this at a time While Constituerit Te Tibers of the "grand coalition', such as the LSSP, and staunch supporters of the PA, such as the TULF, often dissociate therselves with PA actions or publicly criticise the government's policies or attitudes.
The United States, it has now been confirmed by Ambassador Burleigh himself, is actively assisting the Sri Lanka government in its battle against
LTTE terrorism. This is part of Presidents
Clintom’s globa | "war" a gainst terrorism. America's westernallies and many of our neighbours also support the PA's offer of devolution to the Tamils as part of a negotiated settle Tent of the ared conflict. The support is based on the assumption of a FIA - UN PI COTSETSUS. "That's The WS to me!" said UNP and Opposition leader Rahil Wickremasinghe.
LLL KALLSSLLLLLLaLLLLL GLLLLEL S LLLLL L 00G
f election duty § a orie Week pol
First stint as an election bureaucrat
lrricard,
tion night in a mountain village of the Matile Road
night without you
in an open school room
making conversational noises
gated iron roof.
ficer, who slept in the Headman's house
horror in the morning
y Flag flapping above his bedroon Muslim headman cheerfully deaf to his roaring violated the Election Code in his sleep.
neventful as the newspapers say y suspected those Willage women
nating without even going into purdahl
İndianı Britalist title':35,
tot to gxgg seale before SLUTOWI
a narrow bends by-passing Kandy town
sheartbeat seemed suddenly quickening
olding you after twenty four hours.
oubled confessional eyes
e, hesitant, saying
ou kiss me, tel TE
this terrible sin
voted, I voted Green

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The plantation industry is the single largest labour oriented industry to Come underthe state"Sprivatisation programme. The fate of the plantation industry alone is sufficient to decide the direction of the national economy, to a great externet. Interms of monetar W value not a single public enterprise could either match the contribution to the national economy nor the movable or immovable assets owned by the plantation industry. After more than a century the plantation industry still holds its dominance in the economic sphere while remaining the country's largest foreign revenue earner. Today the plantation industry of Sri Lanka is at its most decisively critical juncture, On the one hand it is entangled in political-economic turmoil and on the other it is struggling for its Survival as a viable economic enterprise,
The social changes and developments that took place during the post independence era hawe unexpectedly deprived the plantation industry of its wital profit motive that prompted the British entrepreneurs to get involved in this industry. Today, factors such as abundantly available cheap labour, a Social environment SanS trade Unions and basic civil and political rights, easy access to lands. With fertile soil and ConduCivg Climatic ConditioT15, freedOTT) from or less Cornpetition from other beverages, etc. are not in existence. Apart from all these factors even the safe hards of State ownership and management has started to withdraw from the industry. It has reached a position where the time has come for the industry to survive with its own effort. In other Words this is the most crucial transition period the plantation industry of Sri Lanka has ever encountered. How successfully the governtent and the private sector can ower come the Sei Chall Eng BS Will determine the plantation industry's survival and further development.
ThgeStates WOT sensitive and Cruci potential serious
industry as well есопогпіс апd poli1 loger treated as
The role played by should be serious policy hitherto
government an management COIT) estate WorkerSre
FROV THE WANAGEMENT
During the coloni basic necessities medical facilities, interrelated. Welf: considered to responsibilities of owners. Though smoothly with Cor and short-comings its functions Lud socio-economic circumstances. T plantations by the this context. With of ownership an entire responsibilit well being of t became a functio the State Part: (SPC) and 5th Developплепt Boа the trustees of successive gove function as a po Chiwi Short terT i StitLitiCIEEEd LF concept of emplo Worker Welfare ingrained both
Workers and the g due to Warious pC management did productivity, I COS SuStainability of th
 
 
 

k fÓTCE İS B TOISt ally wital factor with implication for the
as the country's ical structure. It car a negligible aspect. the estate Workers y reconsidered. The
adopted by th Ea d the plantation panies towards the uires to be assesed.
AKEOWERTO "PRIVATISATION
al perio de prowiding such as housing, education and other
Ere TEE SUITCS. Wgte be the sole the private B5tidtB the system worked siderable disparities it failed to continue er Tapidly changing and political he taking over of the state took place in this transformation drnanagement the ty of welfare and the he estate Workers n of the state. While til Co-Operati Osh Janata Estate ird (JEDB) acted as heSE COlitet, TeritS - U Sed thiiS litical instrument to political goals. This he colonial plantatio yer respoohsibility, for which is deeply among the estate Owernment. HOWever litical faCJTS, Stfiti: not result in high til Effectiwelness and le plantation industry,
When the management of the estates LLLLLL LLLLLLL LLLLL LL LLL LLLLLLL twenty two Regional Fantation Companies (RPC), in order to satisfy the Workers and the Trade Unions the government also transferred its social responsibilities to the private management. Realising that the state will hawe to continue to take part in the process of ensuring the welfare and well-being of the estate workers, it established the Plantation Housing and Social Welfare Trust (PHSWT), which is a semi governmental body consisting of state and trade union representatives. HDWB wEr it is Unfortunate that the separate responsibilities of the PHSWT and the RPCs have not been clearly identified
defied,
The change of management has SLICCeede di causilga Slight improvement in productivity as well as controlling the production costs. However är importaritaSpect Of thĘ entire industry, the Estate Worker, has not benefited as result. On the contrary the living and working conditions of the estate Workers continue its doWWard-trend. The situation is deteriorating day by day. Neither the RPCs mor the PH SWT are trying to alleviate this situation. The RPCs and the PHSWT pointfingers at each other in as attempt to palm off the responsibility. As a result the welfare of the estate Worker has become nobody's baby.
THE WRETCHED OF HILLCOUNTRYEARTH
THE
It should be noted that SUCCESSiWe governments continuously exploited the Tamil plantation workers. The estate workers newer really benefited much, despite their signal contribution to the national economy. It was the relentless efforts of the Tamiliestate workers which more than anything else enabled. Successive governmentStO provide rigg on Subsidised prices, to launch huge econotic Wentures and Create infrastructure facilitiBS fÖr the benefit of the non plantation community, the provide the nation access to free education and free health care, to improve the balance of payments, to provide all sorts of other

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subsidies and ultimately to run a welfare state, All these were done at the вхрвnse of the estate workers, who received nothing. In order to pay for the sacrosant Welfare state the estate had to die of Starvation, sleep under leaking roofs, shiver in the cold; they possessed no access to proper education, health and sanitation facilities. They were forced to live under these subhuman conditions SO that their fellow compatriots could enjoy all the benefit of a Welfare state,
It is ironical that the local "Marxist parties were partners of some of these governments which super-exploited the estate workers. It must not be forgotten that the manner in which the workers are handled and treated has a direct bearing on the success of an economic enterprise. In the plantation industry, the estate workers play a Critical role. Since it is export oriented, the plantation industry is dependent om the quality of its outputs and maintaining that quality is a complex and costly process. Therefore the workers have to adapt their life styles and totally commit themselves to their job. In order to keep the workers motivation high the employers should pay serious attention to the aspect of employee welfare. If this aspect is ignored, it will have adverse effect on worker productivity and therefore the grown of the industry. Therefore the estate Workers Tust be motivated in the same way other employees in their industries are motivated.
The main problem encountered by the RPCs in motivating workers through Worker Welfare is the enormous cost that has to be borne. However it should not be forgotten that since nationalisation of the estates, the basic responsibilities of the state such as providing health care, water and sanitation, maintaining and improving educational facilities Were totally Wested With the JEDB and the SPC - the state institutions which managed the plantation estates.
When the management of estates were handed over to the private sector, the social responsibilities of the state that was wested with the JEDB and the SPC too were entrusted with the RPCs. This is quite an impossible task for a private
busine SS entity i un economic at Thosp should not be said t no responsibilitiest Workers Welfare fi required is to cle de T1 a Cateth ed responsibilities of RPC's.
HOUSING EDUC
Housing is a basic sc Bowery humār b. Unfortunately the p Who Contribute maintenance of the are deprived of facilities. Most of t over crowded and t are always in a bad ( to reduce the eff prevails during the ni empty fertiliser sacs their r0WeS. A Cee rooms is a rare sight. of the line rooms ar with Cow dung. ACCũ economic survey 1: central Bank only 2 TOOTs hawe i Cerment the plantation Work ready access to Frwidert. FLIIld EPF as a guarantee for employппепt loans.
The state of the educ is in a bad shape in Only a few study a tenth standard. Acco 1987 Central Barık : have attended up to while there are only r in the district of Nu had facilities to c classes. In 1992 and estate population W. only available instit teachers in the plar Pada College of Ed Due to low educatio estate students fail Other educational in: competitive exams.
an invaluable asset
community. The Sri Education Institute W gift from the govern
is sharreful to 7 has I once - agair7 - unf

er a free Tarket ere. However it Ilat the RPCs hawe Mwards Tnaintaining cilities. What is arly define and fferent sets of he state and the
TION, HEALTH
cial necessity that ing deserves. lantation workers
SO TU C h t fOT Welfäre Schemės oro per housing 1e liПе гоогтns аге he roofing sheets Ondition. Order ct of that ght the people use as ceilings under it floor in the line Most of the floors e usually covered rding to the socio986, 1987. Of the O1% of the line floors. However :ers do not have their Employee accounts to use it housing and self
ation facilities too the plantations. tleast up to the ding to the 1986) urvey only 0.2% HSC GCEAWL" S line Tamil Schools wara , Eliya which Induct GCE AWL 31.5% of the total as illiterate, The ution that trainS tations is the Sri Ication Institute. a standards, the qualify to enter titutions through Therefore this is o the plantation
Pada College of as a sympathetic ent of Germany. 'e that the State irly insisted that
when there are enough institutions and opportшліїїes for the поп estatesectoг.
Health, is sanitation and basic infrastructure facilities are in pathetic conditions. The state has conveniently washed its hands off from this sector during the change of the management. There Were instance S WhBre, eState workers were given the option to pay ten thousandrupees, which will subsequently be deducted from the monthly salary by four hundred rupees each, in order to obtain electricity for the line rooms. Latrines are not properly Taintained by the relevant authorities and is a great health hazard. Apart from that a considerable amount of workers have no latrine facilities.
NUTRITION
As the estate workers occupy a significant role in the plantation industry it is important to provide at least the basic minimum requirements of the workers to enable them to lead ап огdinary life. Modernising tea factories or using higher varieties of fertiliser alone won't ensure the total success of the industry. The estate worker will always have to work as a well oiled machine. Therefore a healthy, skilled and an educated work force is a requirement. They should be psychologically fit for the task. In fact it is necessary to emphasise this aspect stand regarding and expenditure on this is as a variety of capital expenditure with long term objectives.
The Teals of the estate Workers are always short of wital nutritious components. The staple food item in the plantations is roti made out of flour which they usually consume in the Torning before going out for Work hoping it will enable them to work hard in the estates. However this meal newer consists of wital nutrient components and this will certainly affect the growing children. Either the RPC's or the state must take steps to add certain selected nutritious food items to the estate workers meal on a subsidised
EtE.
The cost of living is so high that it has become i una ffordable. Usually an

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ordinary family consumes around twenty five to thirty Kilograms of flour permonth. A five rupee flour subsidy on the existing market price for the tWOhiLundred thousaid estate fa Tiilies i (i.e. twentykilograms per month fora year each) comes up to only Rs, Million 240 per annuT - farmore costly then the Rs. Million 381 increase granted under the President's wote mainly to maintain the Presidential Commissions (the 12 Commissions appointed by the Current in CUTibent),
SOME SOLUTIONS
If plantation industry is to survive, the
government will have to make a capital investment in the form of a short tert subsidy package in order to improve the Working ability of the estate worker force - which is an investment. Loans schemes should be put in place to encourage economic activities (such as small scale household poultry, livestock, vegetables cultivation plots,) which will expand the income of the workers and therefore enhance their access to nutritious foods such as milk, eggs, chicken etc., While this is going Örth El govern Tnet Carn gradually reduce the subsidy and ultimately do away with it probably within a five year period.
Another burning issue in the plantation management sector is the increasing CLISt Of wages. The estate Workers are demanding higher wages because they do not have access to any other avenues of income. Therefore the proposed schemes will help to first reduce and eventually remove the pressure for higher wages,
MEMORIES OF A LEADER
Adult education too can play a considerable role in this regard. For an irStarCell Wher al Worker retire fror Work he receives a lump sum around over fifty thousand rupees through the EPF sawings. But unfortunately they do not know how to utilise it in a manner where it can bring maximum benefits
The estate workers do not know much
country except for one. The only
about the national leaders of the
ThätÍũThallEater Whit of their own is PT it may be because in granting citizensh МВП JUt = Sri L authorities hesitat as their citizens. T trade union giant M his autobiography Times: ea and Pol with great respe Prgma da Sa the le citizenship workers StatLuite books Of Si
Ewen estate Terbë oriente di trade Uni President Pranada:
What was submerged the tier friarter for of th="5ĩnhala Ôrily ? artti-Tamil violerČE: Wä naturally driver only organisatians and ma life and liberty. Thayy struggles as all pacts Ink was dry. The alle competition for insat arousingthlébasic ins of parties and movem their parties atthe C.
The National Froblem dewästation, ruim and money, The psycholag for some Sriérations,
The salier hasto belle has to see such frilit,
soldier is arriears to a If the military success taek is relatively simpl Edifererīt ārld beņr the intertions of the
potential means of co
Herite to as ELurie thar On the suppressian ol governments paid for peace was imposed by pretensions of Wishfu horiest ārld ir cereti people without dilly-da
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

m they as a leader Sident Premadasa. e was instrumental ip to them at a time in kan and Indian d to accept them he local plantation Ir.S.THDndärlän in Wol. 2 "My Life and tics' has admitted til that if not for gislation to grant Would not be in the i Lanka.
:rs of the other left Ons still consider
plantation national leader who was sincerely concerned about them. During his period most of the plantation workers were supporting him and the plantation giants too had no option other than supporting him. It was the first time in the history of Sri Lanka that the entire plantation community Was Supporting a non plantation Sinhala leader, Still the estate Workers talk much about his policies such as granting ownership of the line rooms and the adjoining plots of land to them, providing employment opportunities according to the ethnic ratio etc.. There are people who fasted when the news was broken that the President had died.
sa as the only non
Zeitzez za gaÁe Stača
with the abandonment in 1943 when it first reared its head through earlya, surfaced openly with the stamp of legality on the enactment Act in 1956. Consequently alienation gained momentum every time is perpetrated on innocent and defenceless Tamil people, They were by the restlessness of their consciences to support political vements which they felt could restore their dignity, equality, right to are also left with no other alternative ather than to support such entered into with the successive governments were torn before the 1ation was complete with the walte-face of the Left parties. The lable power knew no bounds and all parties wied with one another in tincts in man. This found the Tamil people totally isolated. The leaders ents who tasted power and Privilege began to serve themselves and ast of the country, a phenomenon comman after independence.
therefore continues to remain eluding a Permanent solution while death caused by the war enormously mount in terms of mari arid latal effect has beer marstrously cruel and shallinger in the mirids
vein victory and if he lacks faith he is unfit for the task. The politician ary success from a different angle, What is an end-in itself for the in end for the politician for realisation of his/her political Programme, can be increased and the adversary is exhausted, then the politiciaņ5 リ, He/she needs only to transform the draft into true copy. The task les mare complicated ifthe militaryforce does mot suffite toupiroot adversary. The military success can then no longer its evaluated as ercion but only as a means of pressure,
tithe future could be built on the unhappiness of other people, built human dignity is a terrible error and terribly have the successive such intransigence. History has not regarded any instance where force of arms. So, fetus riot continue to take cover Lurlaler various I thinking and hollow concepts and march towards ruin, Let us be 2 find a permanent solution to the National Problem of the Tamil lying and all other problems will solve by themselves.
T.S.Kumar'ssar Jaffra,

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SECTION WHAT THE COMMISSION DID INVESTIGATE
The Report of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into the Assassination Of
Kumaratunga is available to the public, at long last. According to it's terms of reference, the Commission was expected to inquire into the circumstances relating to the persons directly or indirectly responsible for the assassination, it's manner of investigation, whether the investigation Wass. conducted properly, and whether there was any outside interference in the in westigation.
Who WES directly responsible for the assassination of Vijaya Kumaratunga? Here the Con Tission offers no surprises, The assassin was Lionel Ranasinghe and his main accomplice was Tarzan Weerasinghe - both
full time activists of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JWF). Then COrnes the surprise; particularly to those who thought the JWP was responsible for Wijaya "s killing - not least because Wijeweera and the JWP never denied it and because one of the front organisations of the JWP put out a leaflet on the day of Wijaya's funeral accepting responsibility for the assassination, giving reasons why it had to be done. No, says the Report, the JWP was not responsible for Wijaya's assassination, If not the JVP then who? The Report, without making a specific finding, mentions the names of two people as being indirectly , responsible for the assassination:
The totality of evidence stated above in our wiew establishes a prima faCfe case against President Ranasinghe Prema dasa and Minister Ranjan Wijeratne as to their indirect involvement in the assassination of Wijaya Kumaratunga. In the ordinary course, we could have had to call for
their explanation case made against making a decision has not been pc demise. Therefor makiпg a speci question of their
in the assassinatic
The dead do not tE they defend thern Commission has re a specific finding, апсd a former S Defence have bee of being indirect assassination of W Therefore, in fairn: and the living, it be and analyse this " against Presider Minister Wijeratine
The Evidence a Premadasa and RE
Let's first conside of evidence listed 1) "The evidenci * Da hana yake,
Weerasingh accomplice of hit that hew CD and not
 
 
 

on the prima facie each of them before in this matter. This isible due to their , we refrain from ic finding on the 1direct in Wolverment
ll any tales; nor can selves, Though the frained from making a for Tigri Presidet tate Minister for implicitly accused ly involved in the ijaүa Kumaratungа. ss to both the dead noves us to examine otality of evidence" t Prema dasa and
gainst Ranasinghe Injam Mijeratne
the specific items in the Report:
Of Susantha Dias that Tarzan (i.e. the main the assa SSin) told ill be killed by the roduced in Court
because if he is produced in Court he will disclose the truth about Wijaya's - assassination and that Minister Ranjan Wijeratne and Deputy Minister Gamini Lokuge would also have to appear in
Court." p.63)
Life, it is said, can be stranger than fiction. The Story of Susantha Dias Daha na yake Certainly puts the most outrageously imaginative detective thriller O Sha The. Dahanayake was detained at the CID froT 19th Jan. 91 to 8th May 91, in connection with the assassination Of S.P..Terence Perera (a well known wictim of the JWP) and the Digane Peoples Bank Robbery. As luck Would hawe it, Oria fine day (or it may have been an equally fine night), the gentleman sojourning in the adjacent cell spoke to Dahanayake through one of the = "cel||grills",
introduced himself as the principle accomplice in the Wijaya assassination adtold hin the ab Owe mentioned tale. Tarzan who seemed to have been of a Somewhat loquacious disposition) also told the witness that he was taken by a CID officer, IP - Nimal Chandra Wakishta, to meet Minister Wijeratine who assured him that he would be set free. According Tarzan's tale, after Wijaya's assassination he went to Kuwait, with the assistance of a security officer attached to Mr. Gamini Lokuge. Some days after Tarzan Weerasinghe made this stunning disclosure, the witness was taken to the presence of the Director CID at the precise moment when the Director was interrogating and needless to add assa ulting the Said Tarzan Weerasinghe. That night the witness heard Tarzan groaning in the cell. (There's no evidence as to whether the witness made a polite inquiry after Tarzan's state of health, through the very same 'cell grill'). Tarzan disappeared from the face of the earth

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after that.
All responsible officers of the CID, past and present, starting with the current Director -- CID, SSP Opath a K. Hermachandra, Categorically stated before the Commission that Tarzan Weerasinghe was not "arrested or detained by the CID at any stage' (p. 50). There were no records or any other ewidence that Tarzan Was arrested or detained by the CID (or any other state agency) ever. However the Commission opted to disbelieve the sworn testimonies of responsible govt. officers (past and present) and believe the BWidence Of four Witnesses Wh0 claimed they saw Tarzan Weerasinghe being detained at the CID. At least two of these were JVP suspects; in the case of one person there was no record that FWS EWer': 'TeSite OT. detiled by the CIDI
Why were the testimonies of four persons (who certainly cannot be described as Odel Citize:S With unimpeachable records) stating that Tarzan Weerasinghe Was detained by the CID believed, despite the fact that aMother available evidence prowed the exact opposite? According to the Report, apart from the fact that the four WitmēSSēS gawe graphic descriptions of Tarzan, the only other basis and justification for this decision was the evidence given by Tarzan's sister, W. Leelawathie Siwa. In her evidence Ms. Siwa Stated that She
Te Ceri Wed infor TT 1 ati On ab Out the "a Tr 25t of Tarzan Weerasinghe, about the 23rd of December 1990. She also received letters which stated that Tarzan Was detained in the 3rd cell of the 4th floor of the CID and that he was manacled and his feet Were chaired. That he was being kept there to be killed" (p.52). The letter X93 is ....an arolyros effer TFraf arron Wridus Jeffer Was the final piece of cast fron evidence which LLCLLL CCCHT LLC LLLLLL HLLCCLL LCT LCCCm
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The acceptance of Susantha Dias Dahanayake's testimony gives rise to Certair questionS:
* Was any attempt made using the records of Dept. of Immigration and the Airport and Kuwait Authorities to
verify Tarzan's supposed claim that he
Wassett0 KuWalt
Since Tarzan was gone out of the cou of a security off Mr. Lokuge, didit question all the Sec. Lokuge to werify the ?tטח t Whyסח If
* Was any attempt why Tarzan left t KL u Wit ad CTE DE risky stepo to take, if |
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reference to Pres (directly or indire implicitly), it is exce perceive how Daya implicates Mr. Prem And We ask their Whether this uwerifiable stater TI (a suspected JVP regarded as evid Ranjan Wijeratine's
Wijaya assassinatiol
According to the RE Dahanayake applied to giwe ewidence, Tł Were tra Ced byt att CB tot 9 ( question is how W the investigators ta were detained att period (that would time afd a lot of di another stroke of finding the wery peo at the CDP Accord there a TE O TECO having detained on Sarath KLu rm ara (W TZT WES - "fail Words, his name an On the CD record know of his existe the in Westigators existence andmar and so fast. Anoth Cr did thay enlist thị Clair Woyant?
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e first major piece 'hich Tadë the e that there is a against President in İster Wijeratne. did not make any dant Premadasa, ctly, explicitly or tedingly difficult to ma'yaka's evidence adasalin arly Way, eaders to decide un werified, and ent of Dahanayaka
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port, only witness to the Comissio le Other WitreSSes he in Westigators ColliSSi. Thig aS this dome? Did |k to all those who he CID during this hawe taken a long ping); or Wasit yet luck, straightaway ple who sa WTarzan ling to the Report, ds in the CD of of the Witnesses, who claimed that yfriend"). In other d addre SS Were 10t s; the CID did not CE. The how did discovered his lage to trace hirn, estroke of Luck a services of a good
PPiyasena of what
However the Commission opted to disbelieve the sworn testimonies of responsible govt. officers
past and present) and believe the evidence of four witnesses who claimed they saw Tarzan Weerasinghe being detained at the CID. At least two of these were JVP suspects; in the case of one person there was no record that he was ever arrested or detained by the CID

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Berrett Per era Lif Tgirl immediately before leaving the CID that he was being transferred because to find out the truth about Wijaya's assassination that there were some Minister involved in the matter." (p.64),
Once again we are confronted with a State left With Care were werified
- BBCäLSE Mf EBT1Bott PEEra iS CBBL. THE COTTI 55 i Which Ch.055 Otto believe the evidence of the government's own Director, CID, decided to accept the testimony of I. P. PiyaSea (urverified and un Verifiable) This too gives rise to a some questions
Why did Bennett Perera decide to Cornfide irti I. P. Piya serra, - who after all was only one of the officers assigned to the Wijaya Kumaratunga Case by him. In other Words what was so special about I.P. Piyasena?
"Did the Commission question the of her officers assigned to the case to
find out whether Mr. Bennett Perera
Thade similar disclosures to them? If not, why not?
"Obviously Mr. Bernett Perera did not mention the name of any particular Minister or gave any indication as to the identity of the Minister concerned. LLLLLLLLLLS LLLLL SS SS LLLLLL S LLLL0 I.P. Piyasena's statement at face value, there's nothing in it to implicate Minister Wijeratne or President Prema dasa (particularly sinca Mr. Pererais Suppo Sed to have Said LLLLLLLLS LLLLLLaaSLLLLL0LLLLLLLLaS LLLLL LLLLLL Minister)
At this point it is necessary to consider the following statement made by the Commission: "It may not be entirely safe to act solely on the two specific items of evidence stated at (1) and (2) ab Owe bo El CaLIse the ultiTate Source of information are two persons who are OW dead. We have not had the benefit of hearing their evidence. But circumstances stated above, Support an inference that these statements were probably made to the respective Witnesses" tբ.65). Widt CirČLTSte CES htthe With E555 who testified that Tarzan Weerasinghe was detailed at the CD all gave
graphic descript Tarzan's sister re.
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One instance th Current Direct I in favour of the
Witnesses With di in the other inst believed simply bi officer. With a lot bit Curious, that,
3) The evidence
"disclosed th
at 8, P.m.) R Television, c item that Wija Critical of the Of One GarT1 Raddoluwa..., that this false State televi5 Wijaya's assa: public irripres OEa COIlisi The motive.f. was thereby time it was p
This was the fini evidence which m decide that there case against Presi Minister Wijerat according to the paper containing Crew to cover the and "thereforew Source of order"
question arisingl doesn't know Wh from, how can th as part of the Pr BSident Frèrflä Wijeratne (who w; Minister at that tir so, since the Commission to g O Of the Witi Hettiarachchi, a SLBC, that the or MinistEr Fr BIsla granting that th deliberate atterTip why assume that
Prema dasa and " any other Ministe Mi 15ter Ofnfor ITT then Presiden justification for u. eWidelice of Mes

iOS i Of hisT? THät eived an aлo путоus ya seria had Serveda Police Force? So in 8 eWide T1Ce Of the CID was disregarded testimonies by four ubious records, while ance I.P. Piyasena is ecause he is a Police |g service record?. A
of Felix Perera who at on the 15th night upawahini, the State arried a false news ya made a StaterTnent JVP at the funeral ini Medagedara at ...Felix Perera stated Fitem was carried or
iom om the lewe of ssination to create a sion that Wijaya was Course with the JWP Or the assassination
ready-made at the er petrated" (p. 64).
all damning piece of lade the Cornrnission Was a primè facie dent Premadasa and ne. However, even e COTTni 55 i Om.. the the Order to the T.W. funeral was missing redo not know the (p.64). The obvious From this is: if one 19r9 the Order C3ITIE is incident be used "evidence" against |da sa and Minister as not even a Cabinet me)? This is specially
attempt by the et a statement froTh Besses, Mr. Erananda nemployee of the der Came from Prime da Sa failed. Ewen 1 is incident was a t to create mischief, it implicates Messrs, Wijeratne? Why not r? Why mot the then lation? Why not the to What is te sing this incident as srs Premadasa and
Wijeratine's involvement in the assassination?
Incidentally it should be emphasised that there was no need to make any artificial attempt to "create a public impression that Wijaya was on i a Collision course with the JWP" as Mr. Felix Perera inferred and the Commission accepted) because Wijaya Was or) ä Collissor) course Wifh fhe JWP During the last few Tonths of his life Wijaya took an inCreasingly strident anti JWP stand; in fact he was probably the only Left leader who dared to criticise the JVP and often by name, in public. Some cases in point:
a) Wijaya" s final public Speech
(88.1.28 - Campbell Park) b) Speech made at an educational camp at Doraweruwa, Kurunegala (Jan. 1988) c) Speech made at the meeting organised by the Independent Students, Union of Colombo University to commemorate the first death anniversary of it's leader, Daya Pathirana - Jan.1988 MleWW TJWr1 Ha|| d) Speech made at the funeral of Nandana Marasinghe, killed by the JVP (Nov. 1988 i Anuradhapura сеппеteгү)
The question cannot but arise why steps were not taken to listen to tapes of Wijaya's last few speeches or obtain copies of newspaper reports. If this Was I done the Conclusion Would mot have been arrived at that "there is merit and substance in the interference drawn by Felix Perera" (p.64) i.e. that Wijaya was not on a Collision course with the JWP The details concerning Wijaya's anti JWP activities and JWP's attacks on Wijaya will be produced later in this piece).
The Commission was told how Vijaya,
just a couple of Weeks prior to the assassination, said he would be proud if his son could say that his father died as a result of his head being blown to pieces by gunshots fired by a JWP gunman or by a "kola kotiya". Obviously this is a clear indication that Wijaya , at least, thought there was a possibility of himself being killed by the JVP.The
fact that he mentioned the JVP ahead of "Kolakotiya' signifies that he thought

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the greater threat to his life came from the JWP This clearly casts doubts on Felix Perera's not wery convincing attempts to give the impression that the JWP and Wijaya were not antagonistic to each other and that therefore the JWP had no reason to kill Vijaya.
(Incidentally, it should be stated that Felix Perera is a PA. Parliamentarian and therefore is hardly an objective, impartial witness where the UNP, Presidenti PrerTadasa and Minister Wijeratne аге сопсегпеd).
It's mainly on the basis of the above meltioned "evidence" that the it was decided that there was a prima facie case against President Premadasa and Minister Wijeratne. We leave it to our readers to de Cide how Credible the Se a widence and witnesses are and how justified this conclusion is.
The Motives
The Report also mentions several factors to prove that President PremadaSa had a Totive for the removal of Mr.Wijaya Kumaratunge from the Lankan political scene. It's important to consider these factors too, albeit briefly.
1. "Wijaya had become a formidable rival and opponent of the Prime Minister (i.e. Mr. Premadasa) at the President election scheduled for later that year" (p.63).
Wijaya was assassinated on the 16th of February 1988. Mr. Prema dasa managed to obtain the UNP candidacy 3Krrost 3 TIOn this Iater, in October. lrl other Words, at the time of Wijaya's assassination Mr. Premada sa was rof Presidental candidate. True, he was an aspirant to the candidacy of the UNP, but then so too were Messrs Garmini Dissa na yake and Laith Athulathmudali. So if Mr. Premadasa had any rivals at that time it was not Wijaya, but Messrs. Athulathrmudali and Dissanayake. Therefore the Report should hawe i explained hOW İt concluded that at the title of the assassination "according to the evidence, P.M. Premadasa had emerged as the candidate of the UNP" (p. 56). Whatewidence? Whose evidence?
Арагt from = Vijaү, person whose car doubt at that time W Mrs. Bandaranaike theгеfoгe bе соггес Was a formidable of Mrs. Badata COTCludes that bec. was hopeful of FTESidesta TDITil motive for Wijaya's Ole alSO 3S tO C had a motive for Wij Ideed if OeaC. logic, then Ms.Chat Kumaratunga had assassination Dissanayake the had Certainly beCć חםppםlוrial ar Presidential electi
2) Once again, it indefatjgable According to months priorit FM, RPTThad Work With hir supposed to Mr.PerBrathat Ther HB wEr United Social Firstly, the p Mr. PTBTlada Sa Werifiêd aS | b) ClOnWÉTŠätiÕn
We the eW Pri Te Titi conversation Hardly a clinic pertinently, t} was unifying för 77 re of a MMS. Bärldarër? tt til UN
After all Wa
Situation in thi time under re. in power; afte SLFP was fin the UNFP a åt tif Parliamentary tlt to SLFF anff-WPfor ir 1994) Whi Wijaya Was ag - because the unifying unde traditionally: E WOLuld ha We W0
 

a, the only other didacy was in...no was one other tha ift SLFP. It Would :t to say that Wijaya riwal and Coppo Orlernt Taike. If Orie t0 au59 Mr. PTBTı adasa winning the UNP altior it gawe him a
assassination the
CL that Mrs. B aya'5 a SSāSSiration.
cepts this brand of
drika BandaTaraike a motive for the of Mr. GTili NP Cardidate WO reer formidable ent in the 1994 !חו
neewidelce Of the ...Mr. Felix Perera.
"Six OSEWe to the assassinatio, asa invited Wijaya to n" (p.55). Wijaya is
y ė COfficir he refused the offer. it on to form the ist Alliance (USA). urported offer by
to Wijaya cannot be oth parties i to the are dead. We only i del C e Of a P.A. ian that such a
took place at al. her. But much Tore ne fact that Wijaya the left forces was
EECOrd Ea 3kg , éj fhg - 5LFP Por Mr. Premadasa, it was the political e country during the viEWF THE UNP. WäS several defeats the ally hoping to beat le next Presidential
polls. In order to do "needed to unify all as just as the PA did chincluded the Left. Ireat obstacle to this e forces Wijaya was his leadership were inti UNP i Oes Who ited for the strongest
anti-UNP Candidate (i.e. Ms. Bandaranaike) in the absence of an independent left contender,
Therefore Wijaya and the USA were taking votes away, in the main, from the SLFP and not from the UNP. During the Wasif few ramorfishs of Wijaya 's Life the CLLLLCCCTLLLLLLL LLHTLTC LLLLLLLL LL aaTCCTLLLL
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3) "Evidence disclosed that Wijaya made inroads to the traditional stronghold of the Prime Minister in the Colobo Central electorate. A large number of youth are said to have broken ranks and car the forward to organise successful mggtings for Vijaya, in that glectorate" (p. 56). In 1984 Wijaya split the SLFP and formed his own party with that breakaway group. Subsequently, he took an extremely anti-SLFP line, attacking the SLFP at every public meeting. Wijaya Thade it wery clear that he
did not want to see the UNP being
replaced by SLFP. He made it wery CT that HE CO5Sidered til SLFP: поtias a progressive aпdа detocratic party but and archaic and a feudal-bourgeois entity based on the domination of one family. Wijaya’s break with the SLFP Wa5 therefore 10t the TëSUlt
of a momentary sense of pique but
a radical departure from the politics of anti , UN Pism which characterised the politics of the Lanka left since 1956. Wijaya stated this wery Clearly in a newspaper interview as early as 1984.
Island: "Do you agree that the Opposition has to be united to defeat the UNP Your breaking away from the SLFP and with the "left' forces have placed the UNP in an Lurbeatā ble positior. So Bre

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Wourot directly responsible for the Comfortable position thé UNP is in today?"
Wijaya : "The Opposition is united. It's the UNP and the SLFP which is suffering a split in real terms, We broke away with the SLFP forппеф апеw party and 5 аге Working together with the "left parties' because the SLFP was no different to the UNP. We are of the opinion that the people Tust be given a real alternative to the UNP.... There is no point in joining te SFP to Ett UNP bgCUSÉ what it would amount to in effect is the perpetuation of UNP politics through the SLFP leadership". (The Island Now, 4th 1984).
Ewe in his last public speech - in which he didn't Criticise Mr. Premadasa - he heap ed: Criticism and abLisa On Ms. Bandaranaike and even went so far as to hint at an alliance between the JWP and the SLFP: "She (Mrs Bandaraniake) Tnade a very damgerous LLLLLL LLLL0LL SLLLLL SS LLLLLSSLS LS LLLSS Jayewardene gives a definite date for elections, she says she will tell the JWP to lay down arms, Comrades, think. If the JWP is willing to lay down arms at Sirima Bandaranaike's order, at whosa Order did they take up arms? We remember the advice given by Sirima Bandaranaike, Anura Bandaranaike to thoSe yoLuths under that Bo Tree or 28 July - burn national property, burn buses, burn dispensaries and Sathosa Outlets), Wiolate civil laws. Mother and Son and Some other Dutugemumus gawe the Order and Carte back to the WalaWWa That momentum is still COintir Luing. lt Was Sirima Bandaramaike and Co. who ordered those youths to take up arms on 28 July, She says today if a date is set for elections she will say lay down arms. We ask Madam : because you incited those youths and gawe the Ti arms, who died? Namdama Marasinghe who always fought for liberation. Was Nandana Marasinghe killed on Sirima Bandaranaike order? WaS the "Aththa"Office Set On fire o SLP orders? Was the LSSP office sat or fire on Madam Siria Bardaranaike's order? Was Tudawe shot in the head on Aura Bandaranaike's order? Was James Athugala of the SLMP killed on Sirima
Bandara naike's Saddasena and ( Madat's order T If she can get the a TTS, ter SES 5 Commander in ch orders they are fo Park, 28.199)
The SLIFF, ir reatur for diwiding the ant his attacks on the for the Accordar candidacy) and
Creature, an acolyte just one example: SLFP official org February 10th 198 Week before Wijaya
“This Life Frar hurry and the found sr) i Masť ČOctober fo
po re5fd er fa/- and É se Čf f7. I WYTWS exposed that this р сард/в, шлдаггiotic the Fighf whise bei is being formed ric The Elections Corry пеwрагїїes to геgї рагїїes are һоділg соттоп symbol ал clear from early on
fo - d. Their Secr
CONTES I EWLIF progressive voters fhe U'WP? If this grc in this politically st people must be re freat fler Waffs ’er
This StatëT18nt : Cle how the SLFP perc time of his death. ( thought that Wijaya helping the UNP b a Titi - lJMNP 'Wg teS .. W other WiSe COrmeto Wijaya had become for the JWP
The Investigation: Conspiracy".
Was there any
implicating Presi Minister Wijeratne dastardly crime? Ye Report. There was Underming the in Wi

O Tder o Were is). Sons killed on is has to be asked. JWP to lay down (ying that she's the ief; that it's her lowing" (Campbell
n, Criticised Wijaya UNP vote (through
SLFP his support d his independent thereby being a of the UNP. Here's the editorial of the ал, "Diпага5а” Оm 38 (i.e. less thana Was assassinated).
Ma5 foerd Brion forff Wa5 sald support WP as a a - Par//алпептагү f be immediately : Front is an anti fron f which serves rigan the Left. This it unknown to J.R. missioner reqLesked SFTP Now those six to registeг шлder a a single party f's what they are going et objecffwe is fo 75, confSe Fe ала глагађу аssist хид tгїes to behave птіреп талner, the ғаdyпow itself fo Tibul popith".
arly demonstrates seived Wijaya at the )bviously the SLFP and the USA, were
y taking away the
which would have the SLFP TigrefOre a severe problem
The "Evidence of a
Other le Wider). Ce dent Premadasa, arid the UNFP in tħis is, according to the 5. a Conspiracy to astigation into the
assassination of Wijaya Kumaratunga. The Report states how this Conspiracy enabled Wijaya's assassins to get away, from the word go :
1). The conduct of Sang aran Rajendran P.C. 15958 of the Kirillapone Police Station: PC Rajendran took down the initial complaint, made by Ms.Chandrika Bandaran aike Kumaratunga's driver, H.D.Dayaratne, Though Daya ratne did not say that the assassiпs pго сеeded tovvагds Maharagama, Rajendran in his tram Smission 5 to Other police officers said they did so. According to the Report, this was "convenient inference drawn by Rajendran...... convenient because it put the assassins outside the area of the Kirila pone Police" (p.24). The Report also states that Rajendran failed to ascertain the necessary particulars. Concerning the assassins from Dayaratna, details which "would hawe been Qif invaluable assistance to the police to launch an iTT ediate Search for the assassis. With the Cooperation of the members of the public in a concerted effort. But from the evidence, it was apparent that neither Rajendran nor the Other officers were least inclined to do so" (p.25). The Report also accuses P.C. Rajendran of failing to give the details concerning the assassins to his superior officer, Chief Inspector M.U.A. Sherifdeen, the O.I.C. of the Kirilla pone Police station. The Commission seems to have concluded that Rajendran's actions were mala fide. The "inescapable inference is since Rajendran didn't have any personal reasons for wanting to undermine the investigation, he must have done so because he was a part of the Сопspiracү.
2) The conduct of "all the police officers involved in the investigation". Instead of pursuing the assassis these Officers "moved in the opposite direction, to the house of Wijaya Kumaratunge like long lost relatives trooping in at a village bereavement. They remained there
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his health was trցնեing him His , deglining health het die varas the
first intimation of mortality. Just a few days before his 90th birthday his wife of over sixty years had been hospitalised aftarasantheir garden. He was in named to celebrate his birthday in her absence from their
though he wished to illustrate in death the essent fabworth of Señera's
aphnism that:քիegoot-man should : ge en Living as longas het ought top | not just äsongas Fehlikesto",
is 90th birthday FE WEES апагg the last two of the surviving
members of the State Council and the
last surviving member of C.S.Semaña ya kes Cabinet of 1947 Having entered the nationaggislature in 1943, he retained the ret September 1978 when he became the country's first executive President, a period of Werthree decades, wit only one single gap for April 1956 to march 1950, were fost hi5 sat în Parliament, the only such defeatin his Whole career. No other Sankan political figure of the first ranklasad
allonger speringoNamentas
Cabinet Minister 15 years and lead of government from 1977 to 1938) than he and to this must be added a seven years period 1970-77) as leader of the Opposition
His political career remarkable for its aggy stretched over for decides Jina Spārrained two dirisingerasiliara гідвідалсагсаагcipos:/лгертелбегge
periods of Sri Lanka's history. No

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Worlderrier that fie segmed și a
larger than life figure bestriding the
Scang, frтодро8лгол а5 friggувагтулалтыг as an extraordinary political talent Wars, flaws and al. OLE Wing most of is political rivals and associates, he LLL K S LLLLLLLLS SLLLLLKaK LKKS S S SS S S SS Island's history than - a// "" : "his болналтдогаге5 irriflessi.
As a young politician he had been Strongly attracted to the India Mati Oral Congre SS in its nationalist struggles against the British, and the inspiration he derived from the policies and tactics of that party lay behind the initiatives he took to revamp the Sri Lankan counterpart, the Ceylon National Congress, and to mould it in the image of the Indian prototype. This Indian inspiration set him apart from LL L L S L SLLL 00 L L S 0 S L LLLLLLL politicians of his day, and a great many of his younger colleagues as well. In the late 1930s and early 1940s he was a ardestridophile, OrÈ Oft'EfEST Lankan politicians who paid their dia Contemporaries the Ultimate compliment of donning their political "unfort" of Witskhadar tunic and dhoti, with the Congress cap perched auntily on the Bad.This did LLL KKLLSL LLLLS LaLLS S S aaSL SKK00KS La LLLLLL LLLLLLLaaa LLL LLLL LLLL LLLLLLL Сопраг855.
The years 1938 to 1945 saw the first LLLLHaaLLLLLLLa aa Haa OOOOLLLSL LaS aLSL LL fortë Basa politician, his remarkable flair and zest for political organisations. விரிg the செyராWatiாக ரோgress In 1938, together with a Bard of young pofficians the Tost propriat of f7f72Sebeling Dudley Serraria yake, With Worl7 he was rhave G sang and not
vās arī drīcā pārrērship/five safato La resuscitaring the flagging fortunes of that virtually fr? OFWELWY7d political association. With two years frey had succeeded on Carl Werting it into a modern polifical party, Wirra rework of Brancess III
S THTL T CCM KLCM HMHS LHLHLL0LK KYS With a cohérent parly Programme set OLE great deaf. A substantial portion of the social and economic programme, which he was instrumental in getting the Ceylon National Congress to adopt was actually implemented by the the Board of Ministers. He would insist too on party discipline on the British
Todel for Sirmier supporton that, was strong oppo t5E WD EstlL: in the generap the Caylom Nati viable political p Cofag Les" – Eff Сеylon Mation: poffrica/ дагtү averally as D. a Ele the country ārā Warrioria/ Congr È stablishing a F7 Watfforniad Y Parry. himself acquïes. igingd the UNP at 946, c. Congress in a ittri Lowersylffy foi a ргiпсiple leaders
the Congress wi few years.
RES
T. GEGEE independeпce { lasting in pact. T hē töök, aloista the rnationa | legis first Tajor billi o this "STECE Ecker of similar significan ha formally mowe 3 NOWEEF inmediately con TE O TEIfETET the Tamili||langua ÜEFFFE : OITTBF Jayewarderer. arry along with national Paraguage COFFEFD5; if the 5 derrit tharmovar
E. Lyi 75 GTSETI Filmowed by a Tàrr
իրըիլյլիքը իր քիթ, լյ Wrwg gyfer fel DCCLII Fred. Fro T indeed througho career of 35 year With implementat imits various per official languages Only (1956-66} : tOirth Elatter poc

fibers but he had little On the contrary there sition to it. Eye for siastically backed his
licy of transforming ral Congress into a Irty, I EL F - ar fi rts at converting the
Cogress can a to raught S. Samarayaka - soar *s fsť Prre MWTisťar ld "party" the Caylor S: Frf 5Ef Frir aw one, the United W. F. W. Wewariere ed in f5 decision sts forf-Treasurer. If 5 Mriks Wolff, g fpragrrarismטphזLr Туїлg caы5а. Опce its departed to the UNP thered away after a
MIHALA. OML"
ble feature of his pre:TET TOT hi5 W5th istitiwa S SOOS E EtETE lature in piloting the h language policy in nt history. No other his day anything of Et is Gg. We
to TESCLI til GF 1943, it ECETTE roversial because it Ce to the position of ge. By the time the ced in May 1944, selfs og for Claude SIThāla 55 the two 5. huf the Standing
få for o GITTET
Order Book. This ал алтелdrrient was 777a77 bar. W Wa Wahl, Ils of FFFF"Wolfe ரிசரf the motor Lr “Sä5“ his title onwards, this parliamentary she was associated on of language policy mutations, from two (1944-56) to Sinmaa identificatio licy which simply
ensured that it was never implemented in the form in which it was presented to the electorate in 1955-56 and in Which its more committed supporters insisted it should be implemented. This
LaLCCLS LLLLL LLL LLL LLLLLLLLS LL LLL LLLL S reality and While he prefered to Conform to the realityhe did not think it politic to proclaim too loudly the hCIOWIESS Gof the ThEitoric. Witte exception of the Sinhala Only bill of 1956 introduced at a title were had lost his seatin Parliament, he either initiated or was associated with the principal legislative landmarks in the evolution of Sri Lanka's language policy: the legislation of 1943-44, the regulations of 1966, the language clauses of the constitution of 1978. and finally in 1988 the 16th LLL LaLLLLL LLL LLLLL S 0S LLLLLLLLLLLL LS Et Was anum UGLassociation of a single individual with all but one of the EWS on the island's controversia language policy. He watched it go ful circle from 1956 through years of agitation, street demonstrations acrimonious debates, back to the essence of his own pioneering legislation of 1943-44.
As the country's first finance minister after independence (1947-53), he began With a Keynesian flourish, but undartheinfluence of advisers of more Orthodox views he gradually became more Orthodox himself, demonstrating little of the flair for bold departures from conventional modes of managing the economy that he was to show in the late 1970s and early 1980s as head0fgovertideed ääd mLLLLLCLLLLLLLLK SLLLLLLLL LHLLCLLLLLLL LL S LLYY Tid T-950s tout Wasablato convice the then Prime Minister, Dudley Senanayake, of the need to adopt the in place of the conventional policies le TBSOrtedt0. His most Constructive
achievement in institution-building as
Minister of Finance was to establish a Central Bank. As leader of the House under Sir John Kotelawala (1953-56
LLHH LLLLLLa LLLLLL LLLLLLLL0LLLLLS LLLL S aLLS SLLLL S LLLL LLCCCaaLLL LLaaaLLLCLLLLLCCL aLLLCLLLSLLL legislature, and an imaginative Minister of Agriculture, following as he did quite consciously, in the footsteps of D.S.Senanayake in the quest for food Security in a country much too dependent or imports for the bulk of
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0L KCaLLLLLLLLCCCaLL K LLLLLL 0LaaLLL of public Policy wEre WeishadowEd by LL S LL S LLLL S S S S LLL LLLLLL LLLLLLLL LLL LLLL L S S S LLLLLLL t LLLLLLL was the important role he played in the diplomatic initiatives that led to the LL LLLL LL LLL LLLLLL LLL LLL LLLL LLLLLL as the Colomba Plate Chical at development assistance progarn ES for the newly independent states of South Asia, and . aspiranits to independence status in South East Asia. The second was his role at the San Francisco paaca Conference at which he made a brief but impassioned plваfог generошstreatment to Japan. That speechlearned him the admiration and gratitude of Japanese leaders and simultaneously the contemporary hostility of Sri Lanka's Marxists especially the Communists). In Japan this speech is stil remembered With gratitude Statues were erected in his honour that country long before any would come up in Sri Lanka, it was singularly appropriate therefore that a Japanese element figured prominently at his funeral ceremony; a bhikkhuri from Japan who read a message from her templa broke i down irtears, overcome by emotion. JR would have been deeply touched by that and WOLuld hawe heartily endorsed the decision to trasfer some of the ash;5 of his Orta remains to Japan, symbolising the special relationship he had with that country from 1951 to the end of his life
The third significant feature of his LLLLLL S S L L LL LK LLL S L LL LLLLL LL
HLLLLHH LLLL LL LLL LLLS LLLLLLaaLLLLLLL With DLudley Selama yake Who Was Minister of Agriculture in his father's cabinet. The partnership with the younger Senanayake had begun in 1938 and continued for nearly three decades thereafter. Dudley Senanayake became Prime Minister on four occasion: om a II of these J.R Jayewardene сапраigпесі indefatigably on his behalf. Their dissimilar qualities and personalities Wermutually reinforcing with his organisational skills and penchant for political strategy combining neatly with his colleague's mass appeal to make | them a formitable Eoliticalteam, TruE, the BSOral teShad come under SEWE TE Strain first in 1953 d occasionally thereafter as well, but
their recognition
mutual departlant: alliance beginning afternatif UUM at the general elec
The Fight J. R.Jaye Wardem
achievement durin the political Wild En SLIEEE sTri EHE BECTOP OUL 1956. The signific gains in magnitu almost single-hand DE il WhiC|| ||3
support, in the Ea Collëāgues in the IE Dudley Senarnayak Differ Gelbert W99 party Organisationi SEttյրd, in 195E-E UNIP would either or disappeared from Las CO :Idu B5 - many
fossilised retlant: group or another, rādītē very qualifies that sшsдесї їд Лі5 grsi Affffff; saw thern throug уears for the party S. Trst gegtarë d.
Nothing he did dur in the political w Otrov ETSI : organised in early ETT OF Wikifo in topposition to Chelvanayaka Ti p. atter as an il-c devised political mot in the national him. JR with opportunity for a opposition that W back to public att י חםDimiם n Whighם the government
CCEEEST) Was am TOLIn Celd initiated a policy prevent the walk f al When JR pr
EFFECE OF EFSE
government Supp. violence against

EEEt E. LEWWE first of all in the P's Crushing defeat til of 1955
јава данist.
greate St g FiS brief spel in mass was to hawe al af Hisparty. Efter it LiffETET HրեE Lif լրիat Fլք էիt| de from being an e Effettigt had only minimum Hy stages, from his Badership, including Titi WG the Wit In his first essay in | 1938-45, dhis El. WithԼյլt Film thiէ: hawe disintegrated in the political scene, ngeries of fractious of them merely of one elitist family As it was his supple tual originality, the rers Whig Colgagres fr) la (safjagle LIf 1955
EFEF| the years following gfgā.
ing this brief period ES5 WS is the protest ha DDEE 15E II - "Color:bOtto Kandy the Bandaranai ke
HE WEWEt onsidered hastily anoeuvre that Was interest. It provided
an unexpected dramatic gesture of ould bring the UNP nition ower an i SSLJE was turning against
to organise the walk the government of intimidation to rom taking place at CEE vitit til threats, groups of Örter Sibeg to LSE the participants as
they proceeded along the road to Kandy while the police, acting under instructions, refused to intervene despite breaches of the law that took pla09 in their pOr eSeance, On the secord day of their march, JR and his dwindling group found the road barred LLLLLL KS LLLL LLLL LLaaLLL LLaaLL S L LLL Willage of Imbulgoda by a group of gDWETTIT E Ft SupporterS - Eed by a government MP Those who blocked LL L LLL LLLL LLLLLL LLLL L LLLLLLL 0LLLLLLL LLLLL the police would not clear the Way. A impasse had been created, and the govern Tet Stepped into impose abar on the walk claiming that it had led to bIrBaches of the poBacB. The raII y. iri Kandy played out as a real anti-clifax.
REC PC
As with grew up after or that Was Jayawardвлё’s profestiл the fогтсон C LY L T HHHH S SLLLLLCCCTCaa LCLL S CCCLCCLL Валдағалаike froлт frrypeттenting his расt w/ih Che/vалауаќал7, їћв Іваger of the Føderal Party Thg fagf is that the goverrier had easily prevailed LLLLLL S LLLLL LLLLL S LLLL S LLLLLLL T S LLLLL LLLLLLLOLS who had struggled through less than aff of the sance frey Were scheduled to cover Wearly nine months LSLLKTS KYLKLSSLLLYLLLS0KSLLK SLSLLLSSSSLLSLLLLL K S SSOS pressure from Within the ranks of his LLLLLL LLLLCCCCLCLOLLL LLLLLLLTLLLLLLLLGG LCGTLCLCLLL ffigдас хүйдаггg Lдарствал: Which Was Eir har the origina/ora Copy of the pact, as a signal of surrender to LLLLLL S SLLLSS LLLLLSLKLOLLL HaCLLO HO S CCLLLS kLMLLHHLS CCCCLCL HH KCMLMMLL KLL LMLMCL LHCCHT CCL CHL HHCaLaLY CLCCMLMLCCCLYL CTT CCL LCCCCLL T CaLLCLLLTTLLaLH and it took JR many years to build a working political relationship with Tamil political leaders, and even so, the memory of that controversial Walk-it was never much of a march was not ETSE FOT the Tic5.
At the time hel returned to parlament in March 1960, the party had not really LLLLLLLLL LLLLLHH LLLLL L S LLLS SSLYS 0 LS When the general election of July 1960 wert againstitonce morg, rrary despaired for its future the early Stages of the new parliamentary elected in July 1960 it did not seen to offer much of a challenge to the SLFP government, in association with Ddley Señana y Eke - and as the number two man in the UNP leadership

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| parliament yet by DEgernber 1964-ից
iad Contrived its defeat thërraby clevery exploiting the fears of some prominent - and creasingly disgruntled SLFPers of the
consequences eithern and other political moderia:Esard conservatives from the coalition between the Sri Lanka Fraedan Party and the Marxist left which had been negotiated in | 1954.
At the general Election of 1965 the UNP was Officiële Torea FC Titidable
political force, and was returned to power as the dominant care of a | topialiticiր goverent
RJayewarden was nowback in his
familiar role of second incommand in
the government, but within a year of
his return to cabinet office differences
| Շf opinion grէթնիcy matters and the machinations of scheining individuals italious of the Bordial relationship between the Prime Minister and his deputу вraded the tшst between thëri, iard J.R.Jayavarden gestis
weakärig both the government and the party. He had little Ong influence of the planning of the election
- defeat of the UNP was om a scale which bore comparison with that of | 1956 with the one difference that he retained his parliamentary seat quite comfortably
When althoroughly demaraised Dudley Senanayake conceded the post of Leader of the opposition in Parliament to J.R. Jayewardene in the afternati of the electoral aut of 1970, it was | by no means intended that the
===A Withit. On the contrary sènânia yake retained his hold on that atter post and retained also is rightgrewer to
the leadership of the opposition in
Parliament, at a tire of his ow ԵHoosing. :
There followed two years of Struggle between the two for control of the
party which eventually led in 1972,
to alatte Tript:toggleda yeWardina
from membership. This he foiled by
| - իe Set about pattantly restoring its
| rigrate and is estignբոմat the Sing:
| ցաa non of րծիքal effetiնeրBSs for any political party. The government was seemingly impregnable in
campaign of 1970. At that election the
eadership of the party too would go
resort to legal act the conflict saan
tEngւյEրient-ի
-reconsiliation
Աayewardana took Joint Secretaries ance more on a
Organisation, airasi and Finlancaster change in its style hardly connenced
El se Sanamayakalgaveof thing party, a las opportunity to rani. desire WiiW.
ngreto sustain the
kEERSTEIGT апсilits morala high the Wildersst leadership of the April 1973, few pe had thought of in likely to lead them cific lines. As
inexorably by
siesīgie
Goriversionāvegg He was six years
Senanayake, Hills | is partwirls irriflessin
influence in the shaping of politius
fra RS Griff hatag conceded one.jpgiігі : and griginal wis
foresyht and сле
felft haacked haec fie goală nor riva cold cerera леппоtioла/sдаас
get their of
Sy preferredfa see fili a who ք:ign as датуу
The Time
This i ai contrad for the problemse för difficulties of his sought to consolid party and to prepair Struggles ahead ased sin fè lè ing asring carries far freed
பேe f : ஆஆேர் Senanayakead
 

and list when edite move to its
s baxpuisіргі
was elected over as one of the : if the party intent revamping of its pration of its notate gth, and distic Operation Head work on this wher at of Dudley in the leadership
and with that the
ld it to his heart's dividuals had done spirits of teparty, ery in ged order during its years in arba yet tithe arty carethin ople with the UNP as tenananos o successin those the year 55/5йдегі his chances of சdersh: перехогаруаиау EE 8 rfers wife äs:/asia 55ர்:
he was theaster ாதிரி:ை on of εομεύει rporisG. Euzihigy3/Y montecifra the people ay is 35ira yirigaard ngsying Go (алд av hir este
:
Tās iegī Eரி: :ே
fest լք -
tē imagnitude
ed and the eguar
predicarierit as në te his hold on thië eit for the political His Wasi yer ofte
:
олагіоиghin the Tsages
கெர்:
:
5e:
fiddle of 1974. This was followed by | a succession of massive politica demonstrations organisedbyth. government With the dal purpose of
strength, and in dating and enoraising its opponents. For the
time than he would normally have had to reflection his own political strategy Հfor the future to these who saw him ät Braemar at that innig and there
government would be defeated the
fölövesday. As för thenaxt few years
and of the coalition the SLFaft Marxist left both sides were growing Հired of Each other and each believed Վhat separation would strengthen then for the future. He also for saw Weakeriglaf the gavërimentithe
: :
:ே ħel l-AMF sineswagen tifel hope iffinali
போர்:"
Iwang destray ia
Wrthaginiaid and rejuvenated party
behing Fir JR seizedia Արքիլլերity -
Wided by the collapse of the 99vernement's economic policies to
begin an extra paratayagator
against them, a peaceful canթaign of
protest which heggberately called a Savagala. The persuccess of the first Swagga convinced withose
with the party who had doubts about JR's agitational techniques that they
| could bring results Möfe sich mass
Gampaigns were organisë. The
governingrat resorted the systematic
use of force against the UNP's Satyagraha campaign the gotia
World deter. R. did not instead he anno UniCerdanisland-Wideseto protest meetings at whicի քtiր: MfS-Bandairanalika Panicked intoising
emergency powers to bante
ietings, ārāsa iepgalā
:WP:
FEassuring its supporters about its continued Electoral popularity and
moment at least it succeeded in both
these objectives. . . .
this enforced period of politigat inactivity gave Jayewardering
Wgre precious favchos todo ha
is message was estar The
next general election as surely asing
сfitsрапіamentaгyife heföresалдth
conficting political ambitions of He broadeneditsiaase by
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3)
without making any effort to track down the assassins" (p.25). There can be two explanations for this: Either this behaviour (like Rajendran's) was due to a Corbination of inefficiency and human weakness (after all it is not every day that the most popular
'filt star of the Country who also
happens to be an extremely charis Tatic and Controwersia | political leader gets assassinated); or "all the police officers involved in the investigation" were part and parcel of the Conspiracy, like Rajandran.
The conduct of police officers Shgrifde ad I.P.Th1 UriSiṁhām (O.I.C. of the C.D. B. unit of the Kirulapone police station). These two did not "Take any attempt to search for the motorcycle within their own police area, although it Would hawe base obowiOuStO them that the assassins. Who Were armed with an automatic rifle would not hawe i gone far on a motor cycle which was easily identifiable. The buck was conveniently pa SSed O neighbouring police stations" (p.25). Either a bona fide act of Commission due to the nature of the Crime of these two Were also part of the Conspiracy. (Interestingly. Sherifdee was transferred out of the area later. According to his superior officers, this Was beca USe his Work Was lot satisfactory; but according to Sherifeen he was transferred beca US e 50 Wed a lot Of interest of going to the bottom of it' i.e. assassination (p.27). Now what was Sherifdeen? A diligent police officer determined to unCOwerthe truth? Or a conspirator who deliberately allowed the assassins to get a Way. A bit confusing, that), The Report is not wery clear on this point-page 27 favours the former point of wiew while page 25 indicates the latter.
What is the conclusion of the Commission concerning those and other innumerable "lapses' on the part of the police officers investigating the assassination of Wijaya Kumaratunge? "The many lapses admitted by senior
police officers fri General of Police do had decades of ex investigations and p possibly be acco L. errancy. The patt disclosed in the consistent. With the hard which firmly that there should b the Case, and thi should be left ope in Court" (p. 36) (lt.
Si Ca the "errancy" ta' OTTEt of til being made, all poli in the Case since til must hawe acted L. this mysterious gu Would hawe been pa After all according of the Officers in Westigation beha". maner - COTT rather satisfactorily by thE
ΠΠΕΠΕ:
1) The mysterio
Tust have PC, Rajendran КігіIIаропе F advance not catching the event of Wijaya murdered.
2} A || the murfler
WTO i Stead assassins We direction to allowing the a Would also ha so in advance.
What We are left Which Sgiweral hun (big and small) WE "gшїdїng һалd“
immediately after that they must catch ing the as Ku TT1a Tatum ga. - I SCEäri ideed! ( was done? Throu Orthrough Circul Chaim Of corti Të Without a Word of a - Thean feat I eSpE Elver7 r77 WW : Woffo a 0 ir office, roof a Sir7

om the Inspector W Wards Who hawe Jerience in Cri|Tinal IrOSECLtionS Cannot Inted for as mere er of events as вwidвг1ce is-ппогв a work of a guiding |laidd o Wlstilleolir he, e no prosecution in at no opportunity for any disclosures alistine).
'commenced from he first complaint Cg Officers involwed han (big and small} Inder the Orders Of iding hand" i.e. they rt of the Conspiracy. to the Report none
is WWE if the sted in a Satisfactory
är derd 3 COTrission). This
us guiding hand ordered not just but all officers of the Pi: Stati i to act diligently in assa 5 sins, ir the Kumaratunga being
us police officers - of pursu ing the nt in the opposite Wijaya's house ssassins to escape - We been told to do
With is scenario in dred police officers reinformed by the either before or the assassination ot act diligently in sassins of Wijaya A mind boggling DIE WOder SCWit gh word of mouth? TSF Wit WS tille
A E tiS
it getting out!" Not cially in Sri Lanka. fferenfgovernmen f gle officer has come
LLLCLLLLLYLS LL0 LLLLLLCLLL LL LLL LLk LLLLLL Wholesale arrancy was orchestrated. (Maybe it was through some kind of collective hypnotisin). According to the conspiracy theory hundreds of police officers should have been in the know thaf They nr 7Lust allWow Wijaya 's assassins to get away. And this conspiracy theory is hard to be a more likely explanation than mere hular weaknesses such as inefficiency and i COmpEterCE, particularly äta time Of extetle Crisis and sock,
Now Wei come to the all important question of the "guiding hand. Whose Was it? According to the [rlos Specific) findings of the Commission, the "guiding hand" would hawe been either Mr. Premadasa's or Mr.Wijeratria's. but Mr. Prema dasa was only the Prime Minister at that time, (a Prime Minister without any executive powers); he Was Tot ewem the Presidentia || CandidatE. The police department did not take orders from him. It is impossible that he could hawe i deliberately. Thisguided the entire investigation a process requiring the complicity of hundreds of police officers from top to bottom) under the wery noses of the Minister and the State Minister for Defence - without them knowing anything about it. As for Mr. Wijerate, he was not even a Cabinet Ministar and thв possibility that his would have been the "guiding hand" is even more far fetc.
Incidentally, the Report seems to look with suspicion at the fact that Minister Ranjan Wijeratne wisited Wijaya's assassin Lionel Ramasinghe at the Slawe Island Police Station and subsequently Ordered him to be transferred to the Care of the CD: "We Carlot comprehend any reason that could hawe possibly prompted a Cabimet Minister to take this Lunusual step of interrogating a dangerous criminal. The law does not provide for such an interrogation" (p.40). How about natural, wery human Curiosity? After all, this was the man supposedly responsible mot only for the assassination of Wijaya Kumaratunga but also for the assassination of d number of top UN Pers including Ranjan's predecessor as the General Secretary of the UNP. Is it then so incomprehensible, Ranjan showingan

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interest in this weritable killing machine and wanting to wisit him? (Let us not forget how the country was recently entertained by the sight of not just the Minister of Tourism but a lumber of other P.A. Cabinet Ternbers, who had no business to do so, flocking round Miss World!. Such is human Weakness), Whether this can be considered as evidence against him, Well, We ask OLIr readers to be the judge. As for Mr. Wijeratne transferring the suspect into the custody of the CID, well that is where top criminal suspects are normally sent, isn't it?
The Categorisation : The Honourable Men W.S. the Liars.
It would be most instructive to See Who the Commission believed and who it disbeliewed.
Who the Corrissor believed - an
їпсоглplete Iїst.
i). K.K.SarathKumara - a family friend of the main accomplice of the Wijaya assassination, Tarzan Weerāšinghè,
i) Susantha Dias Dahanayake-a. JWP suspect arrested by the CID in connection with the assassination of SP Terence Pere Ta and the Digane Peoples Bank robbery.
iii) W.Wilmot Silva ) - Suspected criminals detained by the CD iw), W. K. Amarasekare}}
w).I.P. Piyasena - a Police officer involved in the investigation into the assassimāltion of Wijaya Kumaratunga.
wi). W. Leelawathie Silva -The sister of Tarzan Weerasinghe, (the main accomplice in the Wijaya a SSassination).
wii) Felix Perera-PA. Parliamentarian, a former associate of Mr. Wijaya KufrläfHÎUTIga.
Who the Commission didn't feeve. An frcorpsere (ss
i). Senior Superintendent of Police Opatha K. He ach andra = Currently Director, CID
i) M.A.J. Mendis Analyst – (Haw spent cartridg Scene of Wijaya Well as the on SC Enes of a TE TTE 1:B PBr Abey war derni expressed the WÉ ap01 WaS cies - ā COTT issir ir HOWEWe We
Widel Ce ast. custody of the the said scenes absence of Si Carlot drąW 3 On the eviderCË Analyst who microscopic e. (emphasis min
ii) Chandra Jaya
Director, CID
iv. Nima | Chan Inspector of P.
w). Frank Siwa-F
SEC
WHAT WASN'
The WPFactor
āte tāt prominently in the Report is that of t After all, the Repor JWP had 0 ha aSSassination arı reason, no motive take a brief |00 kat in the Report to jus
1) "That the ass ассоппplice ha OW for the as
This line of in qu personal motives, both appropriate
the Crite underi пол-роїїїca/cгїтв passionel. The a SS Kumaratunga Was Can bei CCT par assassislations thr( the killing of Juliu the recent assassi
 

- Additio (GO W t. "ing Compared the es found at the 's assassination as es foundrėår the ssa SSination of era and Harsha MT, Medis wigw that the sate used in all three COCUSO the efLISed t0 a CCEpot:
did not have any What we are left with is a the and scenario in which several spent cartridges at
of shooting. In the hundred police officers uch 3"wida rnce, Wy Be (big and small) were
ny inference solely 曙 r
fe Gwerf informed by the guiding
only carried out hand either before or ominations (222) immediately after the
assassination that they must not act diligently in dra Wa kishta - catching the assassins of lice, (CIC) Wijaya Kumaratunga. A mind boggling scenario
Wardena - former
OTTET IGP
OM II indeed One Wonders how
MWESTIGATED it was done? Through word
of mouth? Or through : doesn't fig UTE Circulars? What was the Wijaya Commission chain of command? And TE JWF NOWO. 町 t concludes that the all this without a Word of nd in the Vijaya it getting out!" Not a di Ct:0 feat ially to ki|| Wijaya ! Let's mean test especially in the reasons offered Sri Lanka. Even now, With tifyiti luSir. tify this Corclusion a different government in assin and his main office, of a single
domotive on their 画 sassination" (p.62). offer ha come forward foi confess ás fo how this
iry i.e. looking for Wholesale arraney was
. W LI| Flav8-89
and necessary had redestrated (May be it nvestigation been a was through some kind of
particularly a CriTE iassination of Wijaya collective hypnotism?).
a political crite, it ed with politica Jughout history from is Caesar right upto
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На П Пf|ЕТНЕ П ПUTE Of tЕВЕ СВЕВЕ was the assassin motivated by personal factors and as far as We know the investigators of these assassinations did not look for the personal motives of the assassin since it i Was taker aS , EXİCO mati C that, considering the essential nature of the Crime, the motives Would be political and not personal. Therefore, the premise stated in the Report that the suspects had no personal motives for this assassination cannot but be dismissed as totally irrelevant to the matter at hand. The assassins killed Wijaya i for political reasons, i a Citing LJT der the orders of their political leaders. It has been prove beyond reasonable doubt that both Lionel Ramasinghe and Tarzan Weerasinghe were active, full time members of the JWP Even the Report admits this. Lionel Ranasinghe in his statement to the CID stated how he was even sent for arms training by the JWP He also stated that the order to kill Wijaya Come from the JWP The Report however refuses to believe the admission of the killer and busied itself withfinding "evidence' to prove that the order came from President Presadasa and Minister Wijeratrië.
2) The Commission also seems to think that the other accomplices to the assa SSiTtior didirOth3 WE TotiWE -- of their OVW for te a SS5Sition. "Fala Worked 3S a door winder mechanic and Srikantha was his assistant. Of the Other two persons, Anto was a bartender at the Ceylon Hotel It contietal and Dharadasa sold joss sticks for a living. It is Clear that nore of the Se perSOTS had any kind of personal or political rivalry with Wijaya. In fact these persons belong to the working class, who have suffered for generations, and whose cause Wijaya so passionately advocated, as wividly seen from his letter to the infant som Written from porison" (p.57).
Even the Commission admits that W.M. Dhanapala alias Pala, Thura i samy, Srikantha and A. A. Dharma Sena "being a || persons having links with the Janatha Wimukit hi Para Tuna"
3)
P66). That t for helping ir Wijaya belang organisation JWP to be it's of this Wil||bo for as tha ar belonged to Whlı0:See Cause therefore the any motive fd One Wonde Mr.A.A.Tirth leader of the for the rights aII his life *bL by some Tarn they were or organisationi Libearatior1 Tiq Going by thi
Ta|Tii|| could F
Totive M.A Titair
Though the a accomplice
members of
Comclude 5:
the UWP. We
the extet
With the W
COTTittet Vveгe fшgitive escaped = fr. pris0n officia
The assassi gives: clear E his Extre With the JWP Ramasinghe . " Is Tid DECE Steflt for Tilit сапр іпВ8 in wolved pl training in t grenades et C idoctrilatio he was sent to a WP CE Jungle. The t days. Subse in JVP organi агmү camps. tTE Öf t| Ramasinghe
justice (hay custody in
organised by O Tarza

he was their motive the assassination, ed to a rival political considered by the enemy (the evidence 3 stated shortly). As gument that they all the working class Wijaya espошsed and y could not hawe had ir killing Wijaya, – Well rs about the late alingam, one time TULF. He campaigned i of the Tamil people It was gunned down Y youths - because iered to do so by the :hey belonged to, the gers of 7art is Eelam. a Report's logic, no llawe had a reason Cor fOT killing 1ցam,
SSässin änd his Islälfl were active, full time the JWP the Report "they had links with hawe moi evidence of if thitis in WolWeTitsit P. At the time they Ie assassination, they s from justice, having om the custody of |ls" (p.65).
in his own state Tent a widence concerning y close frivo.sverrenf The assassin, Lionel Was a JWP fulltirT1ër. Iber 1986 he, Was ary training at a JWP T bara kända. ThiS hysical Exèrcises, he use of firearms, :, as well as political lite March 1987 for advance training amp in the Siripada raining lasted for five quently he took part ised armed attacks on
it is true that at the he assassination, was a fugitive from іпgescapedpolice a rescue operation the JWP); but aither ni Weerasinghe Were
On their OW. Lionel Ramasinghe's (the assassin) own state Test clearly states that the JWP was providing them with hiding places safe houses), Toney, contacts and Orders right Lupto Wijaya's assassination and beyond.
The JWP is hardly in out of the picture. Though extensive mention is Tiade of Wijaya's riwalry with the UNP thare is 10 meti Om. W hält SOEWer Of his extremely hostile relations with the SLFP dealt with earlier in this piece) and the UWP. M.Y. P. de Si Wa "S (currently the leader of the SLMP and PA Nationalist Teber) testi Tony that Wijaya Opposed the proscription of the JWP is used to prove that there was no antagonism between Wijaya and the JWP and this is emphasised severa | times in the Report. It is interesting that Mr.Y.P. de Silva omitted to Tnention that Wijaya campaigned for the removal of the proscription of the JWP efore the UWP shifted to a virulentyracistandati devolution line om the ethnic question and long before the JWP started killing rival leftists. LLLSLLL0L LSLLSLLLLL0LLLLLLLLCS S LHLLLLLLLS LLLLL ParliarThe Titäriärı ard. Currėntly the Chair Tal of the Rupava hini put things in proper perspective when he made the following statement in the parliament after Wijaya's assassimation: “Vija ya Kumara tung a on many OCCasions policketed a Tid leafleted demanding the lifting of the proscription of the JWP He took part in numerous meetings making the same demand. It was such a man that the JWP killed "(Honsard. One more interesting point. The aforementioned Mr. Y. P. de Silva believed, not so long ago, that the JWP was responsible for Wijaya's assassination and Said so publicly, many times. Here is just one Case in point "The asSassination of Vijaya Kumaraturnga by the JWP murderers was the greatest loss to our party which car newer be overcome". Statement issued to the souvenir to commer Ilorate the sixth anniversary of the founding of the SLMP28. O1. 1990). But of course that was before Mr, Y. P. de Silva : became For Y.P. de Siwa, a MF Tiber. Of Farligt or the FA Natiola || List.
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each other; that Wijaya - was not anti JWP while the JWP was not anti Wijaya. The various arguments used to justify this hypothesis makes fascinating reading. Here is one example:
"Although Wijaya supported the 13th amendment and the devolution of power he was firmly opposed to the induction of Indian troops' (p. 59). the inference is that the anti India/IPKF JWP therefore had no reason to oppose Wijaya. Interestingly enough this Ch15'ETựati[]rl SEETT1S tũ L:QTltTa[jiCt am Barlier observation ma de at the beginning of the Report: "Wijaya took a specific stand in support of the Accord subject to certain reservations. He was of the view that the induction of Indian froops was of adverse to arora interest, since it averted a full scale invasion by India. But he took specific stand that Sri Lanka should not acquire the status of a region or state of the Republic of India and he was opposed to the merger of the Northern and eastern provinces' (p. 12) (Italics mine). In other Words Wijaya was opposed to Sri Lanka becoming an appendage of India; he was opposed to the merger of North East; but he wasn't opposed to the presence of the IPKF. And therefore the JWP had ample reason to oppose Wijaya, which is just what they did.
Wijaya and the JWP
How did Wijaya perceive the JWP and how did the JVP perceive Wijaya? In order to answer this question, it's necessary to briefly reconstruct the post July 83 political situation and the role played by Wijaya in it.
The post July 83 context was one in which there was increasing polarisation between those who supported (sometimes, albeit vacillations) a political solution to the ethnic problem and those who opposed such a political solution. The newly formed SLMP under Wijaya’s leadership beganto take an increasingly vocal and strident stand in favour of a political solution to the ethnic problem based on devolution. Some of the steps taken by Wijaya to bring about peace and reconciliation are duly recorded in the Report. However the Report fails to mention that Wijaya’s support for peace and a
political solution estrangement from JVP
By 1985, the pola anti devolution line 1986 Wijaya wrote that ar all partii Convened to discus to the ethnic prob Parties Conferenc Was the result of th enthusiastic partic (which incidentally the SLFP) made th devolution SLFP a with increasing we year, the SLMP ut of Wijaya launched in support of peace and devolution. The violently bombings meetings starting in Panadura on Au was followed by meetings in Mt.Law and the bombing Rd TeSideCE, InterÉ Report makes refe these attacks with mentioning the JWF as to convey the im UNP - and specific Jayewardene - may these attacks) (pag
The terror campaig JWP against the UN supporting devolutic post Accord Perio supported the Provincial Counci traitors and deserW While the SLFP a supporting the JW |evel, defending November 1987, th campaign of murde With the assassin Marasinghe. Marasi the '71 uprising whi the JWP and was at in an anti-War Cam town of Anuradhapi attended the funera a scathing attack or the killers by name.
to say that Nand: funeral marked the final stage of Wija During the next fes

meant increasing both the SLFP and
risation along pro/ S was complete. In to the government S COrnference be a political solution em. The Political P.P.C.) of 1986 Is request. Wijaya’s pation in the PPC was boycotted by a hysterically antiid:JWP attackhir norm. In the same der the leadership a public campaign a political solution JWP responded by everal of the SLMP with the meeting 24th 1986. This attacks on SLMP inia and Negombo pf Wijaya's Kynsey stingly enough the rence to some of out however even and in such away pressions that the ally President J.R. have been behind e 4).
In launched by the Pārd th5ē eftists in intelsified in the d. All those who ccord and the ls were branded ing death, All tha ld the MEP were Pat the political it publicily. In JWP resulted it's “ (after a brief lull) tion of Nandana ghe Was a hero of subsequently left that time engaged aign in his home ra. Wijaya not only but also delivered the JWP accusing I would be correct na Mara sing he’s beginning of the 'a's political life. months, Wijaya's
attentions and efforts were focused on fulfilling two tasks: the anti JVP struggle and the forming of the United Socialist Alliance which was to be a third force in Lankan politics, a socialist alternative to both the UNP and the SLFP. At a time when the JWP called the tune in southern politics with their letters of warnings and death threats, Wijaya i came out against the JWP openly and unequivocally, Not only did he assume the leadership of the antiJWP struggle; he gave it a meaning and a positive sense of direction, Wijaya was most dangerous to the JWP because he provided an alternative to the JVP-radical but humane, pro-people Without being populist. Wijaya was dangerous and he had to be stopped, fäSt.
That the JWP regarded Wijaya to be a major threat was made clear in numerous JWP state Terts, audio cassettes and leaflets. For instance take this parliamentary speech of former MP (and currently Chairman, Rupawahini) Mr. D.E.W. Gunasekera:
"Listen to the last cassette of the JVP.
Rohana Wijeweera. The name is Tentioned in the last cassette. It says that Wijaya Kumāratunga, Colwin R de Silva, Wasudeva Nanayakkara and K.P. Siwa are traitors who should be punished. I told Mr. Wijaya Kumaratungā and Mrs. Chandrika Kumaratunga about the situation 9 months ago........ Why was this person killed? Because his face was beautiful and the other person's face is ugly? Or was it because he was a prominent youth leader? No. because of the accord which was going to be signed on the 21st" (i.e. the formation of the USA).
It is an open secret that Mr. Kumaratunga received a number of death threats from the JWP This was stated by his mother, Mrs. Clara Beatrice Kumaratunga in her first letter to the Wijaya Commission. Mrs. Kumaratunga said "I know full well that there were JWP death threats against my son when he was alive. He also got letters threatening to kill him". (It should be borne in mind that Wijaya was extremely close to his mother and that his mother Sometimes Used : tÓ open letters sent to Wijaya). The fact that Wijaya had received death threats was revealed in the investigation into

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the assassination under the Presidency of Mr. Jayewardene): (Police), "Sources added that the late Mr Kumaratunga had been receiving a series of threatening letters. The Counter Subversive Unit too Was aware of these letter, sources added". (The Island 18.288).
One cannot but wonder why this angle was almost totally ignored. There was no attempt to ascertain whether Wijaya received any death threats from the JVP. There was no attempt to study the JWP documents of that period (including the aforementioned cassette by the JVP leader Rohana Wijeweera) in order-to come to a correct understanding of what the JWP felt about Wijaya. Instead, it was decided that the JWP had no problems whatsoever with Vijaya. Intent upon erasing the JWP out of the equation, fhe Stater 77ant of fshe assassir7 which contained explicit details as to the extremely serious political problems the JWP had with Wijaya was poohpo o hed. According to Lione Farmasing he’s sifa ferment fhe - WWP ordered the killing of Wijaya because :
1) Wijaya's support for the Accord.
2). His increasing popularity amongst
the youth.
3) The forming of the USA.
4) That his supporters were getting weaponstraining from EPRLF and PLOTE Çadres.
The Report refused t give these any Credence, Listen to what it has to say on this score: "At this time, the JVP had gone underground pursuant to the proscription and was not engaged in open politics. Therefore, Wijaya's popularity with the youth and formation of the USA would not be a threat to the JVP........ The last reason that EPRLF and PLOTE Cadres were training Wijaya's supporters who could be a threat to the JWP was baseless. Whilst We are mindful of the fact that reasons attributed to murderers and subversives need not be rational, we hawe t0 note thaffhereasons Corl7faired frт Полва/'s statement, do not bear any kind of scrutiny” (p.59) (Italics Mine).
If the reasons contained in Lionel's the assassin) statement "do not bear any kind of scrutiny" how ab OL ut the
following statemen
"Is Wijaya Kum Weapons to ki agents? Now t further explain sometime ago, gottogether w Of EPRLF a bringing weapo other parts of
the USA front weapons and W. it's allies again
Today this US with EPRLF a and hawe i decli going to de μrogressίνες individuals an pledge that W allow the killing destruction of either through and PLOTE obtaining wea training from J We W. S. We reacforaries : LWP, from f/79 i Vijaya Kumara paw for the ter TOrists in th: a favourable op Sri Lanka ара East. Some organisations American impi cat's paws of Vijaya Kшmara Cat's pa W II of organisations, the killing of Tamil, Muslit a and their child Pettah, and t East and other he did wag to gα το North. I that if I did' WOLuld lot haW North |like ot| Wijaya Who W. directors was /гто"їагт /тдеу imperialism, J Eersts".
Any guesses as to is frorT?: Thég office,
 

Iratunga obtaining II UR? Toki|| CIA EE'51DEEdt hat a5 wE BxpOSed the USA. Front has th EelateTrorists PLOTE di ar ls to ColorTibo and Sri Lanka a Tid that is obtaining JR's eaponstraining for st the people,
4. Front has united di PLOTE terrorist:S red that they are stroy the JWP
WW a 7 Tf3 LVWP institutors. We a will not anyway of people and the anti-UNP EETets unity with EPRLF terrorists or by ons and Weapons R. We pledge that rep away these together with the
giffe ear. tunga was a cats TE EPRLEPLOTE ir efforts to create inion in the rest of
tif te Not oft 856 tErrOri5t are cats paws of Brialisti. Some are Indian imperialism. tunga Who Was a thEsé TlLrdEFDL15 did IID CIEITII unarmed Sinhala and Burgher civilians ren by Eelamists in he CTO North and areas. Instead. What approve Eеlam and t meed not be Said 't approve Eelam he e been able to go to "Er anti-Eelamists. as a puppet of film ; also a puppet of "їа/ї5гт7, Алтегїcarї R. Jaүеиwardeлe and
where this harague a leaflef issued by
Why were all the above mentioned pieces of evidence implicating the WWP in the Wijaya assassinatio 17 ignored - particularly various anti./VP stafenants by Wijaya and arti Vijays stafsments by the /WP? Why was the leaflet issued hy the VVP's military Wing, fhe PVV, proudly claiming responsibility for Wijaya's assassination and justifying if iулогеđP
No lawyers defending the interests of President Premadasa or Minister Wijeratne were allowed to appear. Therefore those individuals who made fantastic charges against Messrs Premadasa and Wijeratne (such as Dahan ayake and Felix Perera) were not cross examined in any way and even their most outrageous accusations seem to have been accepted at face value. It should also be stated that President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, the appointing authority of the Commission, told an Indian newspaper that Wijaya was killed by the UNP, while the Commission was in
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the WWP, un der its own name on Feb. 21, 1988 - i.e. on the day of Wijaya 5 fu r7 era W. Would the Commission consider this leaflet as being capable of bearing "any kind of scrutiny'?
This leaflet by the JVP clearly sets out why Wijaya became a problem and a threat and to the JWP:
7). He was supporting Eelam.
2) Pei Was a Cat's pola (Mw of Indian
imperials.
3) He was a cat's paw of LS
Impera/sr.
4) The USA was bringing weapons into Colombo with the help of P10TEarld EFFIF
5) The USA was obtaining weapons
and training from the LWP
6) The USA and Waya have pledged fo eir77 frate the WWP är? Id ad // progressive and anti LWP elements.
In other words the contents of the official JWP leaflet correspond to the factors mentioned by the assassin Lionel Ranasinghe, in his state Tent) as being behind the JWP's decision to kili Wijaya.
There are other equally important pieces of evidence clearly and explicitly indicating the JWP's responsibility for the assassination.
1) On the day of Wijaya's funeral, the military wing of the JVP the DJV, issued a leaflet under the title "Why was Wijaya despatched?". The reasons given were Wijaya's support for the Accord, the IPKF and the Provincial Councils. He was also accused of propping up the UNP and training a 600 strong Army to attack the JVP. We must also bear in mind that at the time, and as long as Wijeweera lived, the JWP never dernied killing Wijaya Kumaratunga, which it could hawe done very easily given that all newspapers published their statements, they had an Islandwide poster pasting capacity, plus their own radio station. Given also the manifest public outrage at the crime, denying it would have been the obvious response of any political
entity or individ criппе.
2) Evidence Conc
in Wolvement i of Mr. Vijaya Kur by the then M Security, Mr Lal. ira Statesert reply to a quest the JVP lawy Liyaharachchi, police custody. Kumaratunga's
"What happen the Secretary/ aware by Mr Ra Mr. H.L. de Silv Mr Wijeda sa L beer är reste Defence made i him to the Tang
"Sin Ce the H Akmeemana rai the Confession says that Liyana Constrained it Confessions Wł Thade where he had only the
suspicion upon appear to have 6.9.88).
3) The team in KurTha Tatunga" discovered only the irlcident th LuSed to ki|| the the SLMP Mr. Wi was one of the fTom the Kota Academy in Rat The sama rifl SourCes Said, fi of CSD DIG. To UNF Chail Abey Wardena, stormed the K Academy on Ju away with a sophisticated the arms rem rifles" (Island 2
Strangely enough factors, which clear the assassination o taken into account.

Jal innocent of the
erning the JWP's the assassination laratunga provided mister Of National th Athulath mudali, in Parliament. In ion, he stated that ar, Mr Wijeda sa who died while in was involved in Mr a SSaS5ination.
di Was that Whêm efence was made njith Abeysuriya Or a, or by both that iyanarachchi had , the Secretary nquiries andtraced |alle Police Station
Ol. Member for sed the question of which her himself rachchi Tade, lam D. state that the ich Liyanarachchi admitted that he confirTation of which the Police acted" (Hansard,
vestigating Mr Sassassination a few days after at the "T56 rifle Chief organiser of jaya Kшmaratuпgа, Weapons removed alawea defence тhalапа, last year.... e, Senior Police gured in the killing rence Perera and ΠΕΤ1 Ha r5 ha 4rmed youths who ptala Wela Military ne 5 last year got
large haul of Weapons. Among wed Were 6 T56 0.288),
none of the Se y has a bearing on * Vijaya, has been It would be most
interesting to discover Why due attention was not paid to these factors.
Why were as the above mentioned pieces of evidence implicating the JWP in fhe Wijaya assassination ignored – particularly warious anti JWP statements by Wijaya and anti Wijaya statements by the JWPP Why was the leaflet issued by the JWP's military wing, the DVV, proudly claiming responsibility for Wijaya 's assassination and justifying it ignored?
No lawyers defending the interests of PT eSidat PT Tiadas a Ori Mir i Ster Wijeratne were allowed to appear. Therefore those indiwiduals who made fantastic charges against Messrs Premadasa and Wijeratine (such as Dahanayake and Felix Perera) were not cross examined in any way and even their most outrageous accusations seem to have been accepted at face value. It should also be stated that President Chandrika Bandaranaika Kumaratunga, the appointing authority of the Commission, toldean. Indian newspaper that Wijaya was killed by the UNP. While the Commission was in session.
Did the Report getit right or didit get it wrong? Did the Commission manage to find out who killed Vijaya and why? If the Commission failed in this task, let the public decide.
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Flashback: Kelaniya, 1956
J. R. Jayewardene, defeated UNP candidate at the parliamentary general elections of April 1956, in a way prompted me to join and work with the United National Party. I was among the large crowd at the Colombo Kachcherit waiting for the arr10Un Cement Of the result Of the election to the Kelaniya seat. The result, on the last day of the staggered elections, Was a foregone conclusion - but the margin of defeat was UT EXpected, JR Wa StrOur Ced,
The crowd roared its welcome as the Wictor, JR's Cousini R.G.Sermana yake, emerged from the Kachcheri and was profusely garlanded. After some minutes, JR came out alone and got into his car. There was no one to garland him and he was received with derisive hoots and jeers. And yet, what amazed The was that he was smiling broadly and Wawed to the hostile crowd. Triumph and Disaster - JR knew how to treat those two impositors just the sate. That was the decided that a party with leaders like JR, was worth Working for. And so began my close association, now more than forty years, with the UNP
However, initially was closer to Dudley Senanayake than to JR Jayewardene. During the Bandarawela bye-election
campaign of Nowe differences betwe was evident and in Care Ear in the Ser
Ty allegiance was leader Dudley Sena
whatever his difi
always: advised With JR.
With Dudley Seni ad SLIdde dei J.R. Jayewardene : of the UNP. Once he re-organised a party with patienc the lewe of the pai election of July 1: to join him in the building a new Sr disastrous legac bequeathed to hirTi academic assign threw myself heart campaign, which JI
masterly skill.
Re-organisation of
With my experien professor in agricu an appointinent agriculture. But wh Lf-tlE LNF - 2.3 In Orr OWL Of Fis parliamentary elect that he had other
 

Wanted me to help him in re-organising the university sector which was then in complete disarray,
JR asked me to function as chairmandesignate of the University Grants Commissiono (UGC} which he intended to set up for the first time in this Country. I proceeded immediately to g|Ett Ogether i a few e Tingnit educationists as members-designate of
the - LJIG C and to haWg gxtg5i Weg
Ember 1966, When en the tWo leaders deed throughout my ate from 1965-71, to the then party nayake. And Dudley, ferences With JR, he to Work closely
inayake'S LIntimely thin April 1973, assumed leadership again, as in 1956,
defeated political é Hrd for titLIda On rliamentary general 377, JR invited the grand adventure of iLäka OLIt Of the
y that had been
returned from an ITIEnt abroad and ily into the election R directed with such
the Universities,
Ce as a University ture, had in mind in the field of en || met the Leader July 1977 on the u precedented tion Wictory, - h3 Said " idea.5 forme He
discussions with all relewant sections of the university System - acadetics and administrators, university staff, students, trade unions and educationists. These wide-ranging discussions helped in formulating the new structure of the university system. And much of what we proposed JR accepted. Thus was born the Universities Act No. 16 of 1978, which is even today, with only minor amendments, the legal framework under which the universities function.
In March 1978, President J. R. Jayewardene Created are W Ministry of Higher Education and asked me to function as its Permanent Secretary, in addition to Ty duties as Chairman UGC. Education, including Higher Education was then in charge of Minister Nissanka Wijeratne. Less than one year later, in February 1979, JRJ took Higher Education under his Wing and from then onwards, for more than ten years. I worked closely with the President establishing a new university system, extending and improving technical education, and building the many institutions in our System of higher education. The System functioned well uti | the second JWP insurrection of 1987-89 when the universities, like the rest of the country, Were thrown into turmoil.
Disciplined and Considerate
The ten years during which functioned as the Secretary, Ministry of Higher Education, and Chairman University Grants Commission, were Sortle of the happiest and most rewarding years of my life. President da yeWardere was an ideal Minister to Work with. He was always kind and understanding. Generous to fault, he W35 keer thätth05 e Who Worked With him were well treated.

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whether this was co
President Jayewardene demanded the is
highest discipline from those who worked with him, but unlike many others, he set exemplary standards himself. HG asked me to Teet hirn every. Thursday morning. This was a routine for nearly ten years, with exceptions only when other more urgent appointments intervened, and such occasions were few and far between.
At my first official meeting with my Minister, after assuming duties as secretary directly under the president, Satin an ante-room waiting to be Called in. Some ambassadors were paying courtesy calls on the President on this particular morning and, on being called to the President's room about 45 minutes late, President Jayewardene stood up, greated me and apologised saying, "Doctor, I am Sorry. This will not happen again". After that, if the President was likely to be otherwise engaged, he would himself telephone me and fix another date for a meetiпg.
There were numerous special meetings to discuss certain issues at greater length. The President would telephone me and ask, "Kalpage, what are you doing?" And if I said, "Sir I am at a meeting with the UGC", he would 雲 reply, “A/right dort interruptthal, buf could you meet me at Ward Place this avering?" And then, invariably, he would proceed to ask, "Do you have тгалspогt? Sha// / send(үou a-car?” | President Jayawardene was always so considerate, so sensitive to the feelings of others. ་་་་་་་་་་་་་་
JRJ's Mistakes
The President's ability to grasp the intricacies of the most complex problem was amazing. He sized up a situation immediately and gave his order. Of course, once he had made up his mind, little could persuade him to change course pointed out that the decision = to hawe a referendum instead of a general election in 1982, Was not likely to bring him any credit. He then explained to me at length that the intelligence reports he was receiving indicated an attempt to grab power by violent means.
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rect. Months later, det of What I had and said, "Yes. Ig me that months realised that he There Were other :h I did not agree. o provide hosted y students or the Wike, ir We Sferr de able to find jeople of the area, g W5 frēt. country, Mike Sri of Work and TTLC a universifies was of suitable hostel
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generosity was e President's Fund 10 WErE in need, litical or other Lighter of a friend ised the Oxford In examination but unds to purs Uė her ius Seat Qof leārning. s and also of my nie Citi o with a :ader. At one of my stings, I mentioned sidetadtoldi alileanings of the
"Taffs of g . therTn ro see me° I. He received the dially and after tudent's problem, tary to provide the Was not an isolated
dene Was objective sment of situations. | död. The from the
of rThirnisteTS a T1d liamentary who d me to bend the | explained to the ssibility of acceding he merely told me ught was correct,
Calling on President Jayawardere om his nimetieth birthday to felicitate him, was struck by the gratitude that the Japanese showed Our former leader. A group of six Japanese led by bhikku ni Dr.Tanaka, had a Triwed in Colombo on the previous evening. They called on the President carrying an enormous chocolate cake, sang "happy birthday to you, dear President" and then showered gifts on him and his family. "You know", a гттіsty-eүeої Ргеsfоїелt fo/ої гтте, “t/he
the immediate post-war days, the Americans did not allow any Japanese to meer us at the hotel where we sfayed. We met then77 and spoke with thern on the pavements outside", JR too showed his gratitude to those who stood by him.
The J. R. Jayewardene that I worked with for eleven years was an extraordinary human being-human, decisive, gentle, generous, and kind. would not have wanted to spend those eleven years anywhere else. With any Other leader.
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enlisting the support of important caste groups which had hitherto been neglected or alienated by the Prime Minister's children. From April 1973 until the general election of July 1977 at electoral victory as epoch-making as Banda falaike" 5 had been in 1956, he entirely rebuilt the party. He drew upon
many long-time party stalwarts, but also enlisted the support of able young
men to whom he gave positions of influence. He broadened it political base by enlisting the support of important caste groups which had hitherto been neglected or alienated by the UNP's leadership and were therefore either suspicious of the party
Japanese are unique in their gratitude.
to those who have helped them. During
which he led the party to an
or hostile to it; and he mobilised the
talents of many professionals who up
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