SLPP MP queries mysterious death of JVP Leader Wijeweera in custody

Leader of the House, and Urban Development and Housing Minister Prasanna Ranatunga, in Parliament, on Wednesday, asked for two weeks to respond to a question by SLPP Kalutara District MP Lalith Ellawala on the mysterious death of JVP founder leader Rohana Wijeweera.

MP Ellawela’s question listed on Wednesday’s Order Paper was addressed to the Minister of Public Security.

The MP has demanded to know whether the Minister was aware that on 12.11.1989, the then government had got Wijeweera arrested, and published that fact in the media, and whether Wijeweera had died on 13.11.1989.

The MP also requested the Minister to inform the House whether Wijeweera’s death was a natural one, or whether it was an assassination; and if the death was an assassination, whether there was a verdict given by a court of law in Sri Lanka; and whether a member or a leader of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna had taken steps to institute legal action regarding Wijeweera’s death.