Sri Lankan opposition leader Sarath Fonseka's wife, Anoma, today accused the government of abducting her husband and asked for help to trace his whereabouts.
With tears in her eyes, Anoma Fonseka told reporters from her residence that she did not know where her husband had been taken last night.
"He was not involved in politics while he was in the army. He took to politics only after he retired from the army. In normal circumstances, he should have been taken into custody only by senior officers if government had thought it proper to arrest him. Officers who came to take him into custody were junior officers," Anoma said.
"They came to his office last night dragged him by force and abducted him when he was having meeting with political leaders," she narrated.
Anoma said her husband was a civilian and if at all they had to arrest him, it should have been done by police with a proper warrant.
"Please help me find my husband. I have not heard anything from him," she said.
Asked whether she would appeal for Fonseka's release, his wife said, "they should be reasonable."
"They did not tell anybody and came without informing," she said.
