‘Will JVP killers go scot free’

The family members of the victims of the 1988/89 JVP terror have demanded legal action against JVP frontliner K.D. Lal Kantha and his political organisation in view of what he is alleged to have told a recent meeting.

No action was taken so far against the JVP since it had denied responsibility to its gruesome atrocities during the 1988/89 reign of terror.

The JVP merely passed the buck to the Deshapremi Janatha Vyaparaya.

Lal Kantha has now acknowledged that it was the JVP that destroyed transformers and collected National Identity Cards. When there was a patriotic struggle being waged its enemies were bumped off, he said.

Now that the cat is out of the bag, legal action could be taken against Lal Kantha and the JVP, the aggrieved relatives of the JVP slain families said.

“If it was due to alerting the law enforcement authorities that the JVP killed civilians, what about the large murder of those who defied JVP orders in lighting lamps, opening shops, working in paddy fields and employees reporting for duties at their workplaces, they said.

Shalitha Wijesundera, the son of the JVP-murdered Colombo University’s Vice-Chancellor Prof. Stanley Wijesundera said that Lal Kantha had admitted their past killings and those guilty of such crimes cannot escape the long arm of the law.

Even nature would not show any mercy on such people. “My father was killed when he was committed to the task of gifting an educated generation to the country. He never had a hand in politics,” Wijesundera said.

The JVP had meted out shabby treatment even to the dead bodies of those who were murdered in cold-blood during its reign of terror.