Duminda To Return Next Month
By Indika Sri Aravinda
Scene of the Kolonnawa shooting and Duminda Silva
Government MP Duminda Silva is scheduled to return to Sri Lanka next month, his coordinating secretary told The Sunday Leader.
A. Hewavithrana said that Silva is expected to return on July 15 and will later resume his political career.
Silva is a key suspect in the assassination of former Presidential Advisor Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra.
Hewavithrana said that Silva, who is in Singapore, underwent a successful operation on May 19 and his medical condition has improved.
“His memory is good and he is fit enough to resume his political career,” Hewavithrana said.
He also said that public support is now being gathered for Silva’s political career which was at a standstill following the shooting incident last October.
Silva sustained head injuries in the shooting incident which killed Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra. Silva was later accused of killing Premachandra.
Premachandra’s driver had given a statement to the police saying it was MP Duminda Silva who had been responsible for the fatal incident in Kolonnawa on election day in October.
According to him, the MP had alighted from his vehicle armed with a pistol, shouted filthy words, came to Bharatha Lakshman and bodily attacked him.
After the presidential advisor had fallen to the ground, a man with parliamentarian Silva shot him in the leg with a T-56 rifle.
Then, someone shouted saying, ‘shoot him in the head’ and shots were fired at him repeatedly, said the driver, who is the sole survivor in the group that had accompanied Bharatha Lakshman.
When two of his bodyguards attempted to take him behind a jeep, MP Silva’s men shot them too.
According to police investigations, the presidential advisor’s bodyguards too, had fired shots, which had resulted in parliamentarian Silva sustaining serious injuries.
Colombo Additional Magistrate Prasanna Alwis had in November ordered the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) to arrest Silva.
Silva had to undergo surgery on his brain in April at a hospital in Singapore, where he currently is warded.
Duminda Silva’s father had also sent a sworn affidavit to court in which he confirmed that his son had to undergo another operation at the Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore. Silva was admitted to this private hospital in November 2011 and has remained there ever since. A Court had said last month that there was no need to issue an arrest warrant on Duminda Silva.
Colombo Magistrate Prasanna Alwis had made this statement when the case involving the murder of Presidential Advisor Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra and three others on October 8, 2011 was taken up for hearing. The lawyer appearing for the suspects had said that Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra’s daughter, Hirunika Premachandra was claiming that there were threats to her life in order to prevent bail being granted to the suspects. However, the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) had informed the court that an investigation is being carried out into the death threats.
We all come you sir. Sri lanka need more ganja. Heroin and kassippu. You are better thug. Can work for the king
WOW very colorful again! Sri Lanka the land of colorful events and demented Ministers!…. LOL
Come Hither Come Hither to Sri lanka
Everyone come hither to the Land of color
The land of thugs, the land of crooks
Come hither Oh come hither we beseech you dear
Come hither to lanka the land of Rapists
The Land where murders go unnoticed
The land of white vans where people dissappear!
This is our new island Sri Lanka!
Where gun-totting MP’s rampage on killing
Oh come hither to the land of injustice ever
Come come hither Sri Lanka beckons to all
Come see how they destroy their land
Raping it resources for their demented games
Our Minsiters, Our boys they have brilliant crooked brains
They use to Tarnish their own mother-land
So come hither to Lanka,
Save us from these devils
Bring back it’s splendor, it’s glory its fame
Come hither! Come Hither
Give to us our Peoples Rights!…
Come Hither – bring us Peace
Come Hither – Give us JUSTICE!…..
Oh Lanka Lanka I weep so much.
What has befallen thee Oh lanka my lanka
CID acan arrest him and the Magistrate must remand him
Y should the devil return???
Oh God??? why is this bugger (burgher) coming back??? O”Lord???? Why on earth??? Show me the word of the BIBLE??? I then will be convealenced…..
In the name of Lasantha, Publish the correct one
Arrest him on arrival and bring him to court. Such people must face the full weight of the law.
As for the claims of death threats, this according to the media has proven to be a red herring so why continue to publicise the claim?
If his brain is 100% dead as result of the shooting, he stands a very good chance to rise up politically!
In the lawless, corrupt Banana Republic, people like Duminda has nothing to worry. He will be protected. Like Mervin Silva, he too would be found not guilty. In a Banana Republic where the War Hero was jailed by a Kangaroo Court and the corrupt Leaders dine and dance with the LTTE Terrorists, what else can you expect? God save former Sri Lanka.
Arrest him on arrival put him behind bars for life. Justice must prevail at all times.
Will Anarkali Akarsha and Upeksha Sandamali (Paba) welcome Duminda at the
BIA on arrival?
Both will greet duminda at arrival. One from the front & the other from the back.
His back or her back
If government does not act the way it should, People WILL take the matters into their own hands…..and that is certain!
Who is paying the bills at the hospital?
Yeah right!
Very correct, May be this perpetrator will be given asylum by President himself.
Then the nation will finally be clear where they are standing
very unlikely. people are selfish and have no see evil policy (unless it affect individually)
ARREST THE THUG
Do not be surprised, if he is garlanded on arrival!!!
Do the justice. Its very doubt as Duminda is Sec. Def. pet. If the IGP give orders to arrest Duminda the thug IGP will be the man of the year. Hirunika has to be very careful & god bless her.
Very Good New’s to Miss Hirunika. So This cat can become A member of the “BAD BOY CLUB”. May be write a book.
kudu duminda is back on the street to rule colombo/ Kolonnawa.
Mount Elizabeth Hospital is one of the best hospitals in the world where famous indian actors like big B n rajini kanth took treatment.
people who day dreaming kudu duminda will be arrested, come on people we r in sri lanka n our justice system is a 3rd world system.