He is a career soldier. He was injured critically in a suicide bomb attack.
Then he devised a plan that worked against
LTTE. His strategy overcame an enemy that others had not been able to defeat for 30 years. Until the fall of Killinochchi there weren`t any reports of widespread civilian deaths.
Who ordered the hospitals to be bombed? Who ordered the civilian massacres? Who ordered the killing of surrendered combatants? And who ordered the internment of the civilians in Nazi camps?
Ponseka was in China during the last days of the conflict. He had no hand in the Kashyappa style closing of the bunkers with people in them. He did not order the bulldozing of the injured. He did not lure the Tiger leadership into surrendering, with false promises of safe passage.
He did not order the killing of Balachandran, the innocent child of VP.
So why should he try to defend a regime that has been ungrateful and unkind to him? Why should he sacrifice a peaceful life with his daughters in Oklahoma to defend a criminal regime that has killed all it`s political opponents in cold blood. Can he return to
Sri Lanka safely? Can he trust the promises of the brothers?
What will you do if you are in Ponseka`s boots?