Ranasinghe Premadasa
Assassinations
Sri
Lanka
Sri Lanka's "Mossad Style" 9-11: Suspicious Vid...
Wayne Madsen:
In 1990, Sri Lankan President Ranasinghe Premadasa ordered the Israeli Interests
Section at the U.S. embassy to close its doors and two Israeli diplomats in
Colombo were ordered to leave...Premadasa also ordered a government
investigation of charges that Mossad was training both Sri Lankan and Tamil
guerrilla forces.
On September 25, 1991, Reuters reported “Sri Lankan President Ranasinghe
Premadasa...yesterday accused the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad of plotting
against him because he closed the Israeli interests section in the U.S. embassy.
He spoke at the opening session of parliament.”
On May 1, 1993, Premadasa was assassinated in Colombo during May Day festivities
by a suicide bomber said to be a Tamil guerrilla. Twenty-three other people were
killed in the blast.
On May 28, 1993, Abdul Hameed Mohammed Azwer, Sri Lankan minister of state for
Muslim affairs, said in Jeddah, “Israel was enraged by when they were expelled
from Sri Lanka by Premadasa and I suspect the Mossad was behind the dastardly
murder of this respected leader.”
Those behind Premadasa’s assassination remains an Asian “cold case.” On
September 23, 1997, Attorney General Sarath Silva released 18 Tamil suspects in
the assassination of the president, citing lack of evidence. Silva declared the
case would be officially deemed as “unsolved.”
During a March 2009 trip to Israel by Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ratnasiri
Wickremanayake, talks were held with Israel’s leading arms suppliers on
increased military aid by the Israelis to Sri Lanka.