UNP MP John Ameratunge further confirms that Ra-NIL saved Anti Democratic Mahinda who was accused of acrrying out several murders !

UNP MP and former Minister during UNP Regimes, John Ameratunge confirms that it was then Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe who had saved then Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapaksa, who was accused of acrrying out several murders at the time.

When several local and international journalists have inquired about the articles published about the above incident in several online web portals, John Ameratunge, who was at the time the Internal Affairs Minister, had confirmed that the incident was true.
He had said that Ranil Wickremesinghe had opposed the move to arrest Mahinda Rajapaksa when all arrangements for it was made.John Ameratunge has also said that although the relevant files had gone missing at the time, he had made photocopies of the files.

Magistrate Upali Samaraweera, who heard the two murder cases that were allegedly carried out on the request of Mahinda Rajapaksa, had retired, the President had appointed him as the Prisons Commissioner. The judge is now a director of the Board of Investments.

Earlier Article ; http://tiptopsl.blogspot.com/2011/05/mahinda-who-was-to-be-convicted-of.html