Spy games and Sri Lanka
(Lanka-e-News-03.May.2012.5.30PM) Talking about the problems of the Sri Lankan Foreign Service, Mr.Kalyananda Godage, present Sri Lankan High Commissioner to Malaysia, once stated in a newspaper article "But what is unfortunate is that the Foreign Service gets tarred as people associate 'diplomats' with the Foreign Service whereas many in our missions, once again (after the Kadirgamar era) are only 'pretenders' not professional diplomats." Anyone who is fully aware of the present sad state of affairs at the Ministry of External Affairs would not disagree with him. This is because under the present political set up, no one can even think of performing as a truly professional diplomat. Today, the Ministry is full of trained monkeys, who are ready to perform various tricks when needed by the regim. In fact, behavour of Ms.Kshenuka Senavirathna is a unique example of a most politicized and highly corrupted diplomat of our time.

There is a darker side of the Sri Lankan Diplomatic service too. A large number of political and carrier diplomats, military and government servants are working as spies of other nations. This was prevalent mostly during the time of the war. For money and other benefits many military and government servants provided information to the LTTE. They even provided information to foreign governments for money, scholarships, citizenship for family members and other benefits. Some of them were exposed and punished. Many years ago one Diplomatic officer was caught at the airport with passports of two LTTE members.     More >>