SL operatives step up psy-ops war on Tamil political activists in North
[TamilNet, Tuesday, 24 September 2013, 20:27 GMT]
Following the defeat of Colombo's UPFA in the Northern Provincial Council election, Sri Lankan military intelligence and paramilitary operatives have stepped up a systematic campaign of harassments through threatening telephone calls, diverted and intercepted phone calls and various other forms of harassments on the supporters of Tamil National Alliance, news sources in Jaffna and Vanni said. Reports of similar threats were also on the rise in the Jaffna peninsula on Monday and Tuesday.
EPDP paramilitary and military operatives were harassing those who had campaigned for the TNA in the islets off Jaffna.
An armed squad, which was searching for a supporter of the TNA, assaulted an old mother causing cut injuries to her at Koa'ndaavil in Jaffna on Monday.
Many Tamil activists, who actively engaged in election campaign in Vanni, have relocated themselves temporarily with relatives and friends to avoid getting targeted by violent squads affiliated with the SL military.
Meanwhile, Thiyagaraja Thuvarakeswaran, the chief candidate of the United National Party (UNP) in Jaffna, who is the brother of the assassinated parliamentarian T. Maheswaran, has also complained in Jaffna Police that he has been receiving threatening phone calls from unknown persons in recent days.
Northerners too, got infected with our disease – Basil
- Wednesday, 25 September 2013
An ungrateful northern people have forgotten the past and given a new lease of life to separatist terorism instead of being grateful to the Rajapaksas who had rescued their area from the clutches of terrorism and taken it on the path to massive development through ‘Northern Reawakening’, said Basil Rajapaksa, founder of the programme and economic development minister, at a public rally in Minuwangoda last Sunday (22).
Commenting on this remark, a young MP of the opposition told us that although minister Basil Rajapaksa criticized the northern people for having forgotten the past, Rajapaksas themselves have the worst record in the country of having forgotten the past. The MP noted that minister Basil Rajapaksa should think about how many of those who had supported them to gain power of government are today with them, before jumping to criticize the people of the north.
The ‘Northern Reawakening’ brought a reawakening for the Rajapaksas and their contractor cronies, but not for the common masses of the north, and those people have expressed their opposition to the Rajapaksa regime in a democratic manner through this election result, he said, adding that if the government attempts to take revenge from the northern people, it will result in very dangerous outcomes.
The ‘Northern Reawakening’ brought a reawakening for the Rajapaksas and their contractor cronies, but not for the common masses of the north, and those people have expressed their opposition to the Rajapaksa regime in a democratic manner through this election result, he said, adding that if the government attempts to take revenge from the northern people, it will result in very dangerous outcomes.
