Rajiv Gandhi's Assassination Part 05

This series of blogs explains various dimensions of Rajiv Gandhi's assassination. Though LTTE carried out the assassination, they were just hitmen contracted by someone very powerful. 

The real conspirators, planners and financiers were different people. They were hiding behind layers of curtains and virtually untraceable. After assassination, they executed a perfect plan to cover their tracks. Hence they cannot be traced but one can make a logical conclusion about the main kingpin. 

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Part 5

In this part, we will first establish that Rajiv’s murder was a political assassination and not a madman's vengeance. We will prove it was a political murder by comparing with the hallmark characteristics of a political assassination. Then compare JFK’s assassination with Rajiv’s assassination using the same hallmark characteristics.

Then at the end we will establish who might be behind this conspiracy?

HOW CAN WE CALL RAJIV’S KILLING AS A POLITICAL ASSASSINATION?

Let’s understand TEN HALLMARK FEATURES of POLITICAL ASSASSINATION. These ten hallmarks are always found in any political assassination. This info is not picked from some textbook but I developed them after studying numerous political assassinations. 

1) CLEAR OBJECTIVE - Political assassinations are planned with clear objectives. The objective could be either to grab power or to protect financial interests or both. Sometimes real objectives are not visible immediately and they may take some time to surface. Best example - Assassination of Anwar Sadat on 6th October 1981.

2) POLITICAL PATRONAGE - The political patronage is required to protect the real conspirators and to cover tracks. After assassination, people in power take necessary steps to influence investigation in a direction to divert the investigation or even suppress the investigation. But one thing is clear, no political assassination can be successful w/o the support of the politicians who come to power after assassination.If this is not planned and executed then either the assassination fails or the real conspirators are caught immediately. Best example, operation Valkyrie, the failed attempt to kill Hitler on 20th July 1944.   

3) KILLERS ARE IDENTIFIED IMMEDIATELY - It is very important to immediately “Fix” the blame on the killers and identify them. The conspirators meticulously plan ahead of time to implicate someone to be blamed as the killer/s. They choose the fall guys meticulously so that public should immediately believe in their motive for killing. They plant evidence against them in advance. The pre-identified killer name/s are quickly released after just the preliminary investigation. The pre-identified killer/s may be or may not be the real killers but they fit to the profile of the story line and people believe the story. People believing the story is MOST IMPORTANT. Best example - blaming Oswald in JFK's killing.

4) ARREST AND KILL THE PRE-IDENTIFIED KILLERS - The “Identified Killer/s” are captured and silenced immediately. The pre-identified killers are captured quickly and are killed immediately. This action serves two purposes. a) Public feels the real justice is done quickly. b) Since the pre-identified killer/s are killed immediately, they cannot tell their side of the story in the courtroom. Hence defense cannot poke holes into the fabricated story created by the conspirators. Best example - Killing of Oswald in the police custody just two days after JFK was assassinated.

5) IDENTIFY KILLER WEAPON QUICKLY – In any homicide case, the murder weapon  is

very important. The killer weapon is the link between the victim and the killer. In political assassinations too, the weapon is very important and it is recovered immediately. The killer weapons are firmly linked with the killer so as to give good credential to the story line.

This information is released quickly to further strengthen the story line and also to stop the conspiracy theories. Best example, assassination of Bobby Kennedy. The assassin was caught on the spot with the weapon.

6) CREATE A CONVINCING STORY FOR PUBLIC CONSUMPTION - Prime investigating agency comes up with a  very convincing story explaining the motive behind the killing. In other words, the motive is established quickly. The reason given is so convincing that the public starts believing in that story. This is again done to suppress the conspiracy theories and divert the attention. Best example, assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, the blame was fixed on LTTE in couple of days and motive was established quickly because of known enmity between Rajiv and LTTE.

7) ELIMINATE THE PEOPLE WHO KNOW TOO MUCH - The people who know too much about the plot are eliminated systematically. This is done so as to break the link in the chain of command of the conspirators. This is necessary so that in case if someone spills the beans, still no one can connect the links to reach to the top level conspirators because the links are broken. All such people die with unnatural cause in a quick succession, like accidents, murder etc. Best example, assassination of Nepal's Royal family in 2001. Lot of people died on the day of massacre but later, few more people died with unnatural deaths.

8) SET UP AN  INQUIRY COMMISSION BUT NEVER RELEASE THE REPORT - In every political assassination, it is a common practice to constitute an inquiry commission headed by a retired Supreme Court judge/s to probe the details like, failure in security, conspiracy theory etc. The inquiry commission achieves following purpose 1) Public gets a psychological satisfaction that the truth behind the assassination would be probed impartially. 2) Media focus is on the inquiry commission hearings. Since the media spotlight is on the inquiry commission proceedings, the conspirators get some time to manipulate the investigation and clean up the mess. Most important point, the commission’s report is never published under the reason of national security. Hence whatever findings the report has, never gets disclosed. Best example, Warren commission report on JFK's assassination or Verma commission's report on Rajiv's assassination.

9) CREATE SMOKE SCREEN BETWEEN KILLERS AND THE CONSPIRATORS - A thick smoke screen between killers and conspirators is created. As a result, public can see the “FACES” of the killers but not the faces of conspirators. Public and media are misguided with a very convincing story line that goes well with the matching profile of the killers, the forensic evidence collected and eye witnesses etc. The plot is planned like a honeycomb cell wherein people in the plot don’t know people in another cell. The conspirators are never in direct touch with the actual killers. They deal with the killers through intermediate contacts. The contract money is routed using multiple international transfers, so that it cannot be traced back to the original sender. If the main conspirators are the close friends or close relatives of the assassinated leader then they play a role of a victim, to get the public sympathy so that no one can suspect them. With all this planning, public can see the how the killers executed the plot but they cannot see who were the conspirators behind the plot.

10) REAL CONSPIRATORS MAY REMAIN HIDDEN FOR QUITE SOME TIME - Real conspirators may not be the immediate beneficiary – Sometimes conspirators do not want to be

seen as the immediate beneficiary because that may raise the suspicion. Hence they may allow some cooling time before they claim the benefit. This delay further disguise the public as they cannot see the real beneficiary.

John F. Kennedy's assassination is considered as the classic case of political assassination.  Now I will use these Ten points to show similarities between Rajiv’s killing and JFK’s killing. This will clearly establish the POLITICAL ASSASSINATION TRUTH. And at the end, I will give my closing comments

1. CLEAR OBJECTIVE - 
1. JFK’s assassination - The Kennedy brothers were going in a path breaking direction on cold war, world peace and segregation policy. The success of these changes would have altered the course of the American policies and would have affected some powerful business interests. Hence JFK and his brother Robert Kennedy were assassinated to bring back the policies towards the traditional way.
2. Rajiv’s assassination - After Indira Gandhi’s death, Rajiv was the last doyen of the Gandhi family to hold family wealth and political power. His assassination was planned with an objective to swindle family wealth and grab political power under the name of Gandhi dynasty.

2) POLITICAL PATRONAGE -

1. JFK’s assassination - The American President was killed on broad daylight on the road, in front of the public and media and they blamed it on a lone wolf named Oswald. It is highly impossible that a lone person with mediocre shooting skills would have planned and executed the plot by defeating president’s elaborate security. There were ridiculous holes in the theory to prove Oswald Killed JFK, that no normal person could have believed in it. For example, a single bullet criss crossing in a haphazard direction, piercing through car metal parts and injuring seven people! It was always rumored that very powerful people in US were involved in the plot but they were never investigated or never came on official radar because of political patronage.  

2. Rajiv’s assassination - The Verma commission noted that the plan was made in such a way that Rajiv would have never return home alive from Sri Perambuddur. Killing Rajiv was a very big action and LTTE could not have done it on its own, without the help from someone very close to Rajiv. This group of close associates of Rajiv are the main conspirators who were never investigated or charged. This happened only because of political patronage.

3) KILLERS ARE IDENTIFIED IMMEDIATELY 

a) JFK’s assassination - Oswald was arrested within few hours after the assassination and was paraded in front of the media.

b) Rajiv’s assassination - Human bomb Dhanu was identified within 48 hours and her links with LTTE was declared to the media.

4) ARREST AND KILL THE PRE-IDENTIFIED KILLERS

a) JFK’s assassination - Oswald  was captured quickly but very next day he was killed by a police officer, named Jack Ruby in the police custody. Jack was arrested  but later he too died in the police custody due to cancer. This removed any chance of getting the truth. The eye witnesses in JFK's assassination had reported firing from the roadside grass (as against the official version of firing from the top floor of the library building). Most of them died in unnatural deaths in next couple of years. No evidence was left to tell the truth and the truth was buried permanently!

b) Rajiv’s assassination - Sivarasan, and all his accomplices were spotted in Bangalore. The local police had a chance to capture them alive. But they did not get the clearance from Home Mistry in Delhi. Bangalore police had to wait for 24 hours till the commando’s arrived from Delhi. The resulting delay alerted the LTTE team and a fierce gun battle went on for 24 hours. On August 20th 1991, all the LTTE men were killed in the operation. There is a scope to say that these people were deliberately killed so that they should not speak the truth.
The LTTE chief Prabhakaran also was killed by the Sri Lankan forces on May 18th 2009 with active support from Indian Navy.  It was alleged that Prabhakaran was executed after he was captured alive. Here again, by killing Prabhakaran, the last chance of getting the truth was eliminated. It is important to note that the president of Sri Lanka Mahinda Rajapaksa immediately visited India after Prabhakaran was killed and praised Indian government for the help.

5) IDENTIFY KILLER WEAPON QUICKLY

a) JFK’s assassination - The vintage rifle that “Supposedly” killed JFK was recovered within few hours after the assassination. Very soon Oswald’s old photo holding that gun was released.

b) Rajiv’s assassination - Investigation quickly established the method of killing within 24 hours. Dhanu’s body was cut in half due to the explosion. They found pieces of the explosive waist belt attached to her body. The SIT team was able to recover all the pieces of the belt and reconstructed the belt. They proved the waist belt that she was wearing was strapped with plastic explosive.

6) CREATE A CONVINCING STORY FOR PUBLIC CONSUMPTION

a) JFK’s assassination - In 1963, the cold war was at its peak. Both the countries had hostilities over Cuba and Korea. US public was under constant threat of a nuclear holocaust.
JFK was killed during this environment by Oswald who had communistic background. He had secretly visited USSR and was in touch with the communist groups in the US.
His communistic background was a very good motive for the killing. This reason was sufficient for the public to believe that Oswald indeed killed the president.

b) Rajiv’s assassination - LTTE was very upset on Rajiv for not only stopping all the government aid but more because, he sent Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka to disarm LTTE. LTTE considered this action as a backstabbing by Rajiv Gandhi.
After Rajiv's assassination, when SIT team established the nationality of Dhanu, Sivrasan and others as Sri Lankan Tamils, no one had doubt that it was the work of LTTE. Plus LTTE had a track record of carrying out such suicide attacks in Sri Lanka. Hence public instantly believed in that story.

7) ELIMINATE THE PEOPLE WHO KNOW TOO MUCH - 

a) JFK’s assassination - The conspirators were very high level people and they were dealing with the killers through multiple layers. All these key link people were systematically eliminated after the assassination.
Similarly the common people, who were waiting on the road to see the President, gave the statement to the police saying they heard the shots coming from the bushes behind them. Some people who were taking pictures of president JFK, caught the smoke coming behind the bushes, right at the moment when JFK was hit. It was proving someone had fired the gun from behind the bush. This suggested, there were multiple shooters, whereas government theory was there was a lone shooter, Oswald. All these people who reported bush firing died in next couple of years by unnatural deaths.

b) Rajiv’s assassination - After the assassination, the “On-Site” conspirators, Sivrasan and his other team members were hiding in a house outskirts of Bangalore city.  In August 1991, the local police had the chance to capture them alive. But the commandos used excessive force and killed all of them. No attempt was made to capture them alive. Sivrasan was the right hand man of Prabhakaran and he knew too much about the plot. Hence he was killed instead of arresting.
Later in 2009, Sri Lankan army and Indian Navy started joint action against LTTE chief Prabhakaran. In June 2009 Prabhakaran was killed after he was captured alive. Someone in politics did not want Prabhakaran to remain alive to tell the truth hence he was killed.

8) SET UP AN  INQUIRY COMMISSION BUT NEVER RELEASE THE REPORT -

a) JFK’s assassination - Warren commission was constituted to probe the killing. People expected this commission to probe every single lead and go to the truth of JFK’s assassination. But in reality this commission was used to officially cover up the conspiracy by endorsing single shooter theory (Oswald), with three gunshots. In the process, the commission accepted the government’s ridicules “Theory” of “Magic Bullet”. This single “Magic Bullet” made seven exit wounds and injured three people and still remained intact!
The Warren Commission's report is not made public due to the national security reason. It may be published in 2038; i.e. after 75 years!

b) Rajiv’s assassination - Justice Jain commission and Justice Verma commission was constituted to probe conspiracy in Rajiv’s killing. Jain commission’s judicial powers banned any public discussion of the case. This ensured total secrecy about the inquiry proceedings.
The commission’s report was never published to the public under the reason of national security.
However a part of the report was leaked to the press and that part of the report had blamed Mr. Karunanidhi for playing active role in the assassination.
Another commission of Justice Verma was constituted to probe the failures in the security of Rajiv Gandhi. Even this report was never published.

9) CREATE SMOKE SCREEN BETWEEN KILLERS AND THE CONSPIRATORS - 

a) JFK’s assassination - The real conspirators were hiding behind the smoke screen by adopting following 3 techniques.
1) Give a story to the media and public that they can believe easily (misguide the public) –Oswald’s communist background story was released.
2) Use intermediate links to work with killers (protect self-identity) – It is said that the conspirators used underworld criminals as the intermediate links to deal with the exiled Cubans who did the actual hit job. After assassination, all the links were eliminated and now there is no proof to link the hit men with the conspirators.
3) Try to gain public sympathy by acting as a victim (to fool public) – In Kennedy’s case, no such person was found to play this role but in many cases the conspirators play this role if they are close relative or a close friend of the assassinated leader. This is done to avoid suspicion. 

b) Rajiv’s assassination - 

      1) Give a story to the media and public that they can believe easily (misguide the public) – The LTTE story was created.
2) Use intermediate links to work with killers (protect self-identity) – The conspirators used LTTE sympathizers to deal with LTTE. After the assassination, all the people who knew about the full plot were systematically eliminated. Now there is no proof to link the hit men with the conspirators.
3) Try to gain public sympathy by acting as a victim (to fool public) – It is very clear that Rajiv was systematically trapped into the killer’s dragnet by his close advisers, who were his close relatives or friends and they betrayed him by setting him up. Later on, the same people acted as the victim of Rajiv’s assassination to gain public sympathy. This naturally protected them from being probed as suspect.

10) REAL CONSPIRATORS MAY REMAIN HIDDEN FOR QUITE SOME TIME - 

a) JFK’s assassination - War is a big multi Billion (or even Trillion) dollars business in US. Peace talks and peace treaties are against this business. JFK wanted to resolve the issues, not by war but with the understanding and in a peaceful way. This was detrimental to the war industry.
The conspirators had to wait for 18 months after JFK’s assassination.  In March 1965, US started full flagged war in Vietnam and that gave boost to lot of defense related industries. The war lasted for eight long years and everyone in the conspirator’s team milked the cow. 

b) Rajiv’s assassination - Till 2019, Nehru-Gandhi family ruled India for 48 years out of 72 years of independence. The dynasty hold lot of political clout, goodwill and sympathy with the Indian people. In 1991, Rajiv was the last chieftain of that family to preserve that treasure.
the people who killed Rajiv would have either wanted to destroy the ruling family of India or take over the family legacy, wealth and eventually rule India.
It is not wise to take names here as the conspirators are still unidentified. But the events in between 1996 till 2014 possibly point, who the beneficiaries of Rajiv’s killing were. 

When we compare JFK’s assassination with Rajiv’s assassination then we can find all the pointers match. This proves that Rajiv’s killing was not just a revenge by LTTE but it was a very well planned, funded and executed POLITICAL ASSASSINATION.

Please read closing comments in the last part.