JVP "Kumar Mahaththaya" flees to Australia while CID launches invetigations

(LeN-2007 March 25, 6.15pm) It is being reported that there is a huge secret behind the sudden Migration of JVP internal leader K. Gunarathnam alias "Kumar Mahaththaya" and his family.

It is being said that Kumar who played a massive role in decision and making of the JVP from behind the scene and had fled to Australia recently as the CID had launched investigations to arrest him on orders made by Ghotabhaya Rajapakse. Kumara who never appeared to the forum but got heavily involved in the political scene in the island and his wife who was a doctor by profession was attached to the Ragama hospital.

It is being said that he and his family was sent to Australia as one of the own members of the JVP had leaked some information regarding Kumar to a high ranking official of the government. Kumar�s father is a Tamil but his mother is a Sinhalese and was born and bred in Kegalle. He however cannot speak, read or write Tamil. During the 89 rioting period he had apparently been involved with several law breechings, and the CID and Intelligence units conducted several investigations during that period to arrest him but failed.

Speaking at a public gathering recently propaganda secretary of the JVP Wimal Weerawanse said that Kumar left the island he was faced with death threats.

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