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Premawathie Manamperi Brutally Killed, Buried Alive
Premawathie Manamperi Brutally Killed, Buried Alive
Premawathie Manamperi Brutally Killed, Buried Alive
S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike
Many said S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike left the UNP and formed the SLFP to
become the Prime Minister. I can boldly say "No" because I knew him so
well, up to his death. He left because he knew he could never do anything
being the Leader of the House and he couldn't serve the country. He could
have lived in this country luxuriously. Because he was the only son of Sir
Solomon Dias Bandaranaike who owned 2,500 acres of land, he was also a
good lawyer and could have made enough money.
Then comes Sirimavo Bandaranaike nee Ratwatte. Even though many claim
that the plan was to abduct the Prime Minister Mrs. Sirima Bandaranaike, it
was revealed by Wijeweera himself that the plan was to abduct and kill Mrs.
Bandaranaike. By April 5th 1971 Security was intensified at No. 65,
Rosmead Place, Colombo 7, the private residence of the Prime Minister.
However, without going to the private residence, she had stayed back at
Temple Trees her official residence. She spent the night at Temple Trees. The
JVP plan was to kidnap her when she came to sleep in the night in her
private residence.
The JVP plan failed. The armed JVP activists had assembled in a place called
Ritz and Lido in Borella. The instructions were to kidnap and kill Mrs.
Bandaranaike. An activist by the name of Nimal was assigned as leader.
Somawansa Amarasinghe
An Irrigation Department, Technical Assistant had been assigned to finish
the job. This Somawansa Amarasinghe alias Franco, alias David was married
to a school teacher. Somawansa was married to the sister of Sirisena
Cooray, Housing Minister's wife. He was a very close ally of R. Premadasa.
Somawansa Amarasinghe is a very mysterious man being in the top level of
the JVP, he vanished from the country and was found somewhere in Europe.
How he vanished people know. But the people are silent.
The man who planned to kill Chandrika's mother, Somawansa returned to
the country to lead the JVP during Chandrika's time.
She sat on the same platform with a so called revolutionary and both yelled
about democracy, Chandrika for the sake of her party the SLFP formed by
Bandaranaike. SLFP and JVP joined hands, signed agreements. Ministers
with the present day JVP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake became
ministers. Then the JVP were the killers of Chandrika's husband Vijaya
Kumaratunga. With all these things which has gone into our history,
Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga joined hands with the JVP to save the
country. I presume in spite of these sacrifices Chandrika sacrificed the most.
Normally, after a war thousands are killed. Those who did the killings did it
brutally; they very rarely come to hold powerful positions in life again
except jails or gallows. But in Sri Lanka they are the very people who lead
powerful lives trying to topple governments again and again.
when she was still alive shot her again and buried her with another shot on
her head.
Tortured, raped several times
It was later revealed that Manamperi was tortured, raped several times and
buried alive. While dying in the pit she had removed her earrings and given
to a passerby. She had 10 brothers and sisters and her father was a watcher
in the wild life. Many who saw this incident later volunteered to give
evidence and many including Wijesooriya were convicted.
During uprisings or wars brutality is almost the same. In my fifty years old
career I just can't imagine whether a young beautiful woman was tortured
raped and killed. Lieutenant Wijesooriya was a married man with children
and a family respected in society. They hailed from Horana but lived in
Colombo. The boys and girls came from private schools.
It must be said that when the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna joined Chandrika
three Cabinet ministers took oaths. They were Anura Kumara Dissanayake
the present leader, who accompanied Chandrika to Thailand on an official
visit, Lal Kantha who now shouts most was also a Cabinet Minister. So was
Vijitha Herath also a Cabinet Minister with three deputies and enjoyed the
same allowances and salaries as other ministers did. But when they left
they had done nothing for the country.
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