He is responding to claims in a book written by retired Maj. Gen. Kamal Gunaratne.

Fonseka says he had disregarded a disciplinary inquiry against Gunaratne and gave him charge of a brigade.

He says he would have decommissioned Gunaratne before seeing Prabhakarans’ elimination, had he known at the time about what he mentions in the book.

Fonseka requests the incumbent Army commander to take disciplinary action against Gunaratne.