By Dasun Edirisinghe

The National Freedom Front (NFF) yesterday charged that the National Executive Council was doing what the Tamil Diaspora and Western powers had been campaigning for since defeating the LTTE militarily.

NFF Spokesman and former MP Mohammed Muzammil, addressing a media conference at the party head office at Battaramulla, said the Tamil Diaspora and Western powers sympathetic to the LTTE were demanding that the war heroes who had defeated the LTTE be put behind bars.

“Today, the NEC of the good governance regime does the very same. There are many media reports that the NEC had unanimously decided to arrest former Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa. Cabinet spokesman Dr Rajitha Senaratne, too, has told state media that the NEC made a decision to arrest former Defence Secretary. Similarly, leader of NSSP Dr Wickremabahu Karunaratne, too, told media that the NEC was planning to arrest Mr Rajapaksa,” Muzammil said.

“It is now clear that the incumbent government is hunting the country’s leaders who made the country’s victory against the LTTE possible. Former Navy Spokesman D. K. P. Dassanayake has been grilled by the CID and there is a move to hunt former Navy Commander Admiral Wasantha Karannagoda. Now, the good governance masters are making public statements on the impending arrest of the former Defence Secretary.”

Muzammil said the conduct of the NEC was very dubious. “On what grounds can they discuss the arrest of people? Arrests can be made by the police, but that, too, on court orders. So we can see that the NEC is not a national council but a hunting council,” the NFF spokesman said.

“Who is the NEC comprised of? One of the members is former TNA leader R Sampanthan, who has been demanding a separate state within this country and been working under the instructions of LTTE political wing leader Tamil Chelvan. Then there is Wickremabahu Karunaratne, who publicly campaigned for Tamil Eelam. Another champion of the Eelam cause Mano Ganeshan, too, is a member of the NEC. These are the people who have decided to arrest our war heroes who liberated the country from terrorism. We ask people whether they will let these LTTE and Tamil Diaspora proxies to hunt our warheroes.”

Courtesy:The Island