Assassination of Lasantha goes to the account of the General SF: Witnesses ready

(Lanka-e-News -03.May.2011, 1.30PM) The govt has laid out a plan to blame former army
commander Gen. Sarath Fonseka of master minding the assassination of Sunday Leader editor Lasantha Wickramatunge. For this purpose they have decided to use eight soldiers serving at the moment in Kilinochchi, Wakarai, Mulaitivu and Trincomalee and they are already staying in respective camps with many privileges and their families are also to get massive economic benefits.
An army officer that came to Colombo from the north on a transfer has been given this contract and the responsibility to maintain its secrecy.

According to this plan of the govt, initially two or three soldiers will be arrested in this regard and after giving massive media coverage for these arrests, the rest will also be arrested. The govt has already had discussions in this regard with the relevant army officer and he has also been entrusted the responsibility of detaining these personnel under special security. The whole purpose of it is to convince the judiciary that it was the former General who ordered to the assassination of Lasantha Wickramatunge, using the evidence of these arrested officials for this purpose.    Full Story>>>
-----------------------------------------------------------------War Long Over, Media Still Muzzled

War Long Over, Media Still Muzzled A colleague lights candles at the grave of assassinated editor Lasantha Wickrematunge. Credit:Amantha Perera/IPS Buy this picture COLOMBO, May 2, 2011 (IPS) - It has been two years since the end of Sri Lanka’s decades long war, and life in general has begun to slowly edge back towards normalcy here. Not so for the country’s besieged media community, according to observers and journalists alike - reporting still feels hemmed in and muzzled, they say. "Don’t forget that this is a nation that is wounded at its heart, the media reflects that psyche. The healing has not even begun," Sunil Jayasekara, the convenor of the Free Media Movement (FMM), the country’s foremost media rights group told IPS. Jayasekara observed that as the war reached its climax in late 2008, journalists found it hard to report objectively. Full Story>>>