Lives of Sobhitha Thera, Chandrika in danger!

 Friday, 25 July 2014

The lives of convener of the National Movement for a Just Society Ven. Maduluwawe Sobhitha Thera, and former president Chandrika Kumaratunga are in danger, an intelligence officer attached to the military has told ‘Lanka News Web.’

The officer said he was revealing this in order to prevent an attempt to gain petty political advantage.

The road accident faced by Sobhitha Thera on July 22 was no coincidence, but a trial for a fatal road mishap planned for the future, like in the case of the accident that claimed the life of former deputy minister Sripathy Sooriyarachchi, he said. The military intelligence uses the term ‘Sripathy theory’ for this, he said further.

Also, exaggerated news that a man had been arrested for videoing the ex-president’s home and another for attempting to assassinate her are being planted on the advice of military intelligence, in order to convince that the LTTE is still targeting her.

Several teams are being employed to assassinate her, on the advice of a top official in the government hierarchy, and to blame it on the LTTE. These teams are also keeping a close watch on opposition MPs Mangala Samaraweera and Dr. Harsha de Silva, said the military intelligence officer.

In addition, these teams are watching several web journalists who have become a big headache for the Rajapaksa regime, including the London-based editor of ‘Lankaenews’ Sandaruwan Senadhira and ‘Independent.lk’ editor Subhash Jayawardena. Plans have been made to station Maj. R.P.D. Pathirana, a military intelligence officer, in London to gather information about London-based websites, he added.