The thirty-sixth (36) installment of the expedition in search of the hunters who pursued death.
The fall of the second commando,
The raiding operation carried out by landing on a camp of Mr. Pulendra Raja Gopalswamy or LTTE Deputy Leader in Vishwamadu.
Vishwamadu is a village located in the Mullaitivu district of the Northern Province.
To the east of that city is the Indian Ocean, to the northeast is the famous Pudukuduirippu city.
To the west is the Nain Road and to the north-west is the Paranthan Junction which runs from Pudukuduirippu to Paranthan town.
Vishwa Madu, which is now a very attractive city, was once a semi-rural city consisting of forested areas and open lands mixed with farming. In the early days of the LTTE organization, it maintained its power with the support of the rural people by maintaining its camps near the villages.
At that time, the deputy leader of the LTTE, Puluvendra Raja Gopal Swamy, was controlling the area while maintaining the power of the camps in this area.
They were covering the leadership of the LTTE organization and their camps and activities with the help of the Tamil people who are friendly to the army and with the regular observations of the army intelligence.
Mr. General Lionel Balagalla, a now retired former army commander, showed great commitment and effort to curb the activities of terrorists by strengthening the activities of the intelligence agencies. This was the time when General Weeratunga, the then Army Commander, was about to retire.
By this time, a Joint Operations Headquarters under the command of General Cyril Ranatunga had been established near Hatta Royal College, Colombo (Mal Road) to manage operations in the North East.
Colonel Balagalla reports information about a camp belonging to Mr. Tiger Deputy Leader in Mulathivu Vishwamadu area. Accordingly, in order to achieve that goal, Major Sunil Dayalan, who was the commanding officer of the commando force, the most powerful force of the army, was assigned to Peiris.
Among the groups in the commando force, the Charlie group, which was the attack fighting group, was assigned to carry out this operation accordingly.
Thus, Major Upali Edirisinghe (now retired Major General) who was the Officer Commanding of Charlie Group was called to the Joint Operations Headquarters and given information about the LTTE Deputy Leader's camp in Vishmadu.
His team officers at that time were Captain Vijitha Welikala (now retired Major), Lt. Ashraf Mohammad Ashad and Lt. P.L.H. Wijesinghe are the officers.
Colonel Lionel Balagalla gave his intelligence officers and one Tamil spy to explain all the information and terrain of this operation, and by examining their information and aerial photographs, they began to prepare plans with the help of that information on how to carry out this operation.
On the eighth day of January in the year one thousand nine hundred and eighty six.
One place in Vavuniya camp..
For this operation, the troops planned to travel from Ganemulla camp to Vavuniya and from Vavuniya to the operation area by helicopters, but due to the heavy rain and fog over the island these days, it was decided to travel from Ganemulla to Vavuniya by buses.
And although this operation needs to be done quickly, the area between Vavuniya and Omanthe was attacked by terrorists due to the death of Lt. Milroy Fernando, an officer of the Third Gajaba Regiment of the Army, and six soldiers, and the unrest caused by the bringing of the dead bodies of those soldiers. This operation had to be postponed after a few more days.
This deceased officer named Lt. Milroy Fernando, who was then the Executive Officer of the Third Gajaba Regiment, was on his way back from Vavuniya to Mankulam camp to pay when a landmine exploded on an unpaved road between Oman and Vavuniya. Of the seven soldiers taken, all but one were killed. At that time Lt. Milroy Fernando had passed the examination for promotion to the rank of Captain and qualified for the rank of Captain, so he was posthumously promoted to the rank of Major.
The execution of this operation in a background where the morale of the army soldiers was very low due to such attacks and its impact was so important for the morale of the army that the late General (then Brigadier) Denzil Kobbekaduwa was called to the Vavuniya camp as the operational commander for this operation, and with him An expert surgeon and staff from the Colombo National Hospital and a mobile operating theater were brought to the Vavuniya camp.
On the eighth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and eighty six.
2015 hours...
Commando soldiers were seated in two groups in front of a Dala Weli map prepared to describe the plan of the operation, and in front of them were Brigadier Denzil Kobbekaduwa, Colonel Lionel Balagalla, Major Upali Edirisinghe, Captain Wijitha Welikala, Lieutenant A.M. Ashad and Lt. PLH. Wijesinghe was. In addition to this, the Bell 212 that came from Colombo that evening
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