{"id":50564,"date":"2017-01-04T23:52:28","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T04:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=50564"},"modified":"2017-01-04T23:55:44","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T04:55:44","slug":"mahinda-scared-of-his-brother-could-not-stop-gotabhaya-create-extremist-bodu-bala-sena-reveals-rajitha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=50564","title":{"rendered":"Mahinda Scared of His Brother  Could  not Stop Gotabhaya Create Extremist Bodu Bala Sena Reveals Rajitha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By<\/p>\n<p>Dharisha Bastians<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Minister Rajitha Senaratne yesterday pooh-poohed an allegation that he was involved in creating the Bodu Bala Sena made by former President Mahinda Rajapaksa last week, counter-alleging that it was his brother former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa who was the true patron of the extremist Sinhalese movement accused of targeting religious and ethnic minorities in the country. <\/p>\n<p>Senaratne told reporters at the Cabinet press briefing yesterday that the former President\u2019s claim was the \u201cjoke of the 21st Century.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Asked who was truly behind the creation of the BBS, Senaratne replied: \u201cGotabaya. I have never minced my words about this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Minister Senaratne, who also served as Fisheries Minister in the Rajapaksa Cabinet, revealed that he had warned President Rajapaksa several times that his brother\u2019s actions were destroying his Government. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe couldn\u2019t put a stop to that. He was scared of Gotabaya. The President was scared of the Defence Secretary. That is the kind of Government there was then,\u201d the Cabinet Spokesman charged. <\/p>\n<p>According to Senaratne, the former President would stop discussions on reconciliation and peacebuilding when aides told him the former Defence Secretary had arrived. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe could only talk peace secretly when Gota was not around,\u201d Senaratne said, employing his usual pithy narrative style at the weekly briefing. <\/p>\n<p>Last week, in a meeting with the Foreign Correspondents Association, the former President charged that Government Ministers Champika Ranawaka and Rajitha Senaratne, who also served in his own Cabinet, had been behind the rise of the BBS and other extremist movements. <\/p>\n<p>Rajapaksa claimed that Ranawaka had prevented him from acting against Bodu Bala Sena\u2019s controversial General Secretary, Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara Thero. <\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy: Daily FT<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton50564\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D50564&amp;text=Mahinda%20Scared%20of%20His%20Brother%20%20Could%20%20not%20Stop%20Gotabhaya%20Create%20Extremist%20Bodu%20Bala%20Sena%20Reveals%20Rajitha&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Dharisha Bastians Minister Rajitha Senaratne yesterday pooh-poohed an allegation that he was involved in creating the Bodu Bala Sena made by former President Mahinda Rajapaksa last week, counter-alleging that it was his brother former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa who was the true patron of the extremist Sinhalese movement accused of targeting religious and ethnic &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=50564\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Mahinda Scared of His Brother  Could  not Stop Gotabhaya Create Extremist Bodu Bala Sena Reveals Rajitha&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50564"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50565,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50564\/revisions\/50565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}