The State Intelligence Service (Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol) is a group that is specially trained to go among terrorists and among them itself destroy the terrorists leaders. The brutal killings of the LTTE’s Eastern Commander Colonel Nisham and LTTE leader Prabhakaran’s close associate Colonel Shankar was skillfully done by this particular group. On November 10th, 2001, the Former Chairman Charitha Ratwatte and Vice President of the UNP lodged a petition against the then Army Commander, General Lionel Balagalle. This was because, the UNP stated that there was a conspiracy to bomb a bus that the UNP leaders were supposed to travel in. They also stated that if anything like that were to happen, the Army Commander should take the responsibility. As a response that, on the same day the Army Commander stated that there’s no truth the complaint made against him. Because of this, the UNP was angered by this and it initiated a great tragedy which was a betrayal to the whole nation.
On January 02, 2002, Kandy Police Dog Unit, Assistant Superintendent of Police Kulasiri Udugampola including a group, launched a campaign to betray the country as the apex of nation’s betrayal. The first step that was taken towards the betrayal of the nation was when a Police team had travelled at night to the Millennium City housing complex in Aththurugiriya, where the State Intelligence Service had operated the Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol. When the police had arrived there they had demanded an inspection of the house stating that they have obtained a court order to do so, but when the head (Captain) of the Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol requested to see the court order, they had denied the request and forcefully entered and raided the house. An officer from the Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol was arrested along with a stock of weapons after the raid. Some media outlets reported this betrayal as their main headline story.
In America, the FBI does not question the operations of the CIA which is a secret organization. But here in our country, operations carried out by the State Intelligence Service has been questioned by the Assistant Superintendent of Police of the Kandy Police Dog Unit.
At the time in America, their main news story was a false rumor that had been created, that they had found a home with weapons designed to assassinate the Prime Minister. An officer working for the State Intelligence Service was arrested there and brought to the Katugastota police station and threatened in a derogatory manner. Later, on January 3, a letter was addressed to the SSP of Kandy, by ASP Kulasiri Udugampola, demanding a court order of six suspects to be interrogated and also later on a case was filed in Kandy Court against the Army Commander and Head of the State Intelligence Service. This was the first time in Sri Lankan history a junior police officer had filed a case against an army commander.
After the raid, all the information of the officers of the long-range Task Force was exposed to the LTTE terrorist organization. Hundreds of lives of State Intelligence Service Officers who are known as the guardian angels of the country and their families have lost their lives to terrorist organizations. After the betrayal of the nation, the president appointed a special commission of inquiry, which revealed much of the raid which was a creative lie by ASP Kulasiri Udugampola. However, it has already been proved that this betrayal to the nation and citizens was a doing of the UNP. It is a well-known fact by most Sri Lankans that the nation traitor that led the greatest betrayal in history was none other than the then Prime Minister and Leader of the UNP, Ranil Wickramasinghe. We must rise as Sri Lankans, not to hand over the country to a nation traitor who committed such betrayals but to expel him.
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