Bibi and the Lost Boys

Can Netanyahu find Israel's three kidnapped teenagers without destroying his own government and tearing the West Bank apart?

• BY AMOS HAREL-JUNE 26, 2014

TEL AVIV, Israel — For the past two weeks, the top story in Israel hasn’t been the jihadist gains in Iraq or the World Cup. Rather, Israelis have been gripped by the saga of three Israeli teenagers who were abducted near a West Bank settlement on June 12 and have not been heard from since.

Bibi and the Lost Boys by Maria Anderson

Philippine coconut farmers warn over pesticide use

By Edwin Espejo Jun 27, 2014

GENERAL SANTOS CITY – Alarmed over the spread of a debilitating disease that is destroying coconut farms in Luzon, Mindanao coconut farmers are calling for an island-wide summit to prevent the infestation from wiping out the coconut industry here.

Rene Pamintuan, co-convenor of the Save the Coconut Movement, said millions of coconut trees are dying in Luzon, particularly in the Southern Tagalog region due to widespread infestation by coconut scale insect, also known as cocolisap.

Pamintuan said there are already cases of cocolisap attacks in several provinces in Mindanao but this has not yet reached the level of destruction that hit Laguna and Batangas.

Philippine Coconut Farmers Warn Over Pesticide Use by Maria Anderson

Dodging the bullets in northern Brazil's 'wild west'

FRIDAY 27 JUNE 2014
In Brazil's lawless north, the fight for land and natural resources has killed 448 people since 2002. Guillermo Galdos reports from Para state, one of the most dangerous places in the Amazon basin.

Dodging the Bullets in Northern Brazil's 'Wild West' by Maria Anderson

How the Clintons went from ‘dead broke’ to rich: Bill earned $104.9 million for speeches

During a one-day visit to Panama in June 2011, former president Bill Clinton delivered a speech during a conference entitled "Embracing our Humanity" in Panama City. (Tito Herrera/The Washington Post)

BY PHILIP RUCKER, TOM HAMBURGER AND ALEXANDER BECKER June 26
Over seven frenetic days, Bill Clinton addressed corporate executives in Switzerland and Denmark, an investors’ group in Sweden and a cluster ofbusiness and political leaders in Austria. The former president wrapped up his European trip in the triumphant Spanish Hall at Prague Castle, where he shared his thoughts on energy to a Czech business summit. His pay: $1.4 million.
Matt DeLong contributed to this report.

 Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton discusses the capture of the Benghazi suspect Ahmed Abu Khattala. Diplomatic correspondent Anne Gearan adds her context and commentary to Clinton's interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour during a town hall event.     Full Story>>>>

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www.seithy.com    இலங்கை தீவில் மதச் சிறுபான்மை மக்கள் குழுவில் ஒருசாராரான இஸ்லாமிய மக்களுக்கு எதிராக தொடர்ந்து வரும் மிகக் கொடூரமான சிங்கள பௌத்த பேரினவாதிகளினதும் அவர்களுக்கு துணை நிற்கும் ஸ்ரீலங்கா அரசினதும் அநீதிகளிற்கு எதிர்ப்புத்தெரிவித்து எழுச்சி மிக்க கவனஈர்ப்புப் போராட்டம் ஒன்று ஸ்கார்புரோ நகரில் Markham Road and Sheppard Avenue சந்திப்பில் மாலை 2 மணி முதல் மாலை 4 மணி வரை நடைபெற்றது. எம் சகோதரர்களான இஸ்லாமிய சகோதரர்களுக்கு நடக்கும் அநீதிகளை கனடியத் தமிழர்களான நாம் வன்மையாக கண்டிப்பது தமிழர்களாக எமது கடன் என்பதை உணர்ந்த மாந்தர்களாக கனடா வாழ் தமிழர்கள் பல்வேறு தேச இஸ்லாமிய சகோதரர்களோடு இணைந்து இன்றைய கவன ஈர்ப்பு போராட்டத்தை நடத்தினர். இதுவரை காலமும் பிரிந்து கிடக்கும் பல்வேறு கனடா வாழ் தமிழீழ உறவுகளும் ஒன்றிணைந்து ஒரு நன்மைக்காக கரம் கோர்த்து போராடிய காட்சி காண மகிழ்ச்சியாக இருந்தது. தமிழர்களின் ஒற்றுமை இலங்கை தீவின் சிறுபான்மை இனங்களின் ஒற்றுமை இன்னமும் ஒடுக்கப்படும் மாந்தர்களின் ஒற்றுமை மென் மேலும் வலுவாக வேண்டும்.

மதங்கள் கடந்து, மனிதநேயத்துடன், ஒடுக்கப்படும் மக்களுக்காகவும் அதேவேளை சிறிலங்கா இனவாத அரசின் திட்டமிட்ட இனஅழிப்பு மத அழிப்பு நடவடிக்கைகளை சர்வதேசத்திற்க்கு வெளிப்படுத்துமுகமாகவும் இந்த கவனயீர்ப்பு போராட்டம் இடம் பெற்றது. மிக எழுச்சியாக வெற்றிகரமாக நடைபெற்ற இந்த மக்கள் எழுச்சிப் போராட்டம் பல மகிழ்வான நினைவுப் பதிவுகளை எமக்குள் விதைத்தது. ஒன்றுபட்ட இனத்தால் வெல்ல முடியாத வெற்றி உலகில் எதுவும் இல்லை. விழ விழ எழுவோம். அநீதியை தகர்த்து நீதியை நிலைநாட்டுவோம். ஒன்று பட்ட மாந்தர்களாய் நீதிக்காக குரல் கொடுப்போம் மிழினி-                         -செந்தமிழினி-

Striking the match

 As the politically-aware citizenry reels from the shock and horror of a 21st century ethno-religious riot, much of the despair stems from the knowledge that the horror of Aluthgama was a long time coming

June 26, 2014 

• Hardline monks did not riot or burn in Aluthgama and Beruwala last Sunday night. They just struck the match upon their platforms and watched the towns burn

“They hold harthals now even for small, small incidents. When the LTTE was killing all communities indiscriminately, nobody held harthals” – President Mahinda Rajapaksa, at the Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport on Sunday, 22 June

Striking the Match by Maria Anderson

Reflections On The Brink Of The Next Abyss

| by Tisaranee Gunasekara

“How could we not have seen what was coming, until it had arrived in our midst, clanking and smoking?”

John Banville (Shroud)

( June 26, 2014, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) President Mahinda Rajapaksa is furious. Not about the Aluthgama riots; that, in his eyes, was a ‘most minor incident’. He is furious about the peaceful protest (Hartal) against the Aluthgama riots.

Reflections on the Brink of the Next Abyss by Maria Anderson

Verdict announced by judges in open court changed when put down on paper to suit Rajapakses’ decision

(Lanka-e-News- 25.June.2014, 11.45PM) It is a matter for deep regret that Sri Lanka recognized as the pearl of the orient and its people considered as those who love their motherland ,are now kept cruelly trampled by a Medamulana self seeking power greedy family under their brutal despotic boots , with the result even the sacrosanct laws of the country and justice in courts are being brazenly, blatantly and most shamelessly destroyed without let or hindrance. This was well illustrated when a judgment announced in open court by the judges of the appeal court underwent change when it was put down on paper, to suit the obnoxious and illegal requirements of the Rajapakses. 

The victims of this gross brutal injustice of the bestial Rajapakses are members of a family who are not belonging to the destitute class but a family that is wealthy , educated and enjoying media popularity in profound contrast to the Rajapakses , the highest in the country’s hierarchy , yet whose members behave as hoodlums resorting to most brutal , deceitful , unlawful and uncouth conduct.

The aggrieved family had been residing at Koswatte road , Rajagiriya for the last over 50 years in their ancestral home. After the demise of their parents , Malini Ranaweera became the chief occupant. A land nearby theirs was recently purchased and an international school commenced thereon by Tiran Allus and family who collaborated with President Rajapakse , and engineered the traitorous colossal illicit payments to the LTTE terrorists to make Rajapakse the President, owing to which unpardonable treason , the entire country is now plunged in deep despair and inescapable dire straits. 

The construction of a swimming pool was started in this School which is in close proximity to the homes of the forces . A swimming pool of a school is unlike that of a hotel or a home. Therefore to the family that lived peacefully and most decently for 50 years in that house this was like murdering their soul and self respect. Moreover , this construction is not in accordance with the Municipal engineers’ authorization.

Malini Ranaweera filed action in the district court (DC) against this construction. Yet , since the construction was not stopped , and it continued, an application was made in the appeal court to obtain an injunction order pending the DC verdict.

The case No. is SC/ HCCA/LA/477/13 . The appeal court issued an injunction order in favor of Malini Ranaweera .The respondent Tiran Allus cited the ground that the construction had reached a slab level , hence until the DC verdict is delivered , to permit him to continue with the laying of tiles only , as it would otherwise cause damage to the slab.

The judges of the appeal court after considering the submissions of both parties allowed only the laying of the tiles. Two days later however , Tiran Allus party whose favorite hobby is tricking resumed the construction of the swimming pool . When he was questioned , he replied brazenly he was carrying on in accordance with the court decision despite being pointed out the court gave permission only to lay the tiles .

Intriguingly , when Malini Ranaweera requested a copy of the judgment from the appeal court to pursue further action , it took more than a month for her to get it. Obviously , the delay was deliberate. Finally when the copy was obtained and the verdict was read , shockingly , what was in the written copy was not the verdict announced by the judges in open court ! The judgment in the copy was in favor of the wrongdoer.

The lawyer for Malini Ranaweera upon being questioned had exclaimed, this is the first time in his whole life time he had encountered such a travesty of justice and judicial perfidy! In any case this lawyer is one who frequents the Temple Trees .

Subsequently , CJ Mohan Peiris had summoned the lawyer to his chamber , and related most shamelessly a most shameful tale. “Mr. …….don’t try to delve too deep into this. Gotabaya interfered and instructed. That is why the verdict took that unlawful direction , and had to be written that way .” 

Isn’t eccentric King Kekille’s court of the past infinitely better ? when compared with the Kangaroo court of present crude uncouth barbaric court of the MaRa family.

Transformation To Enlightenment

Let our great President a seeker of the Truth lead Lanka to new heights. Lets rally round President Mahinda for he represents tradition and the new.

By Ranil Wijeyesekera -June 26, 2014

Ranil Wijeyesekera

In today’s World Knowledge and Wisdom seem all important.  God wanted man not to eat from the Tree of Knowledge. Man disobeyed.  This led to original sin. The use of Knowledge not in Harmony with Gods will is the greatest sin. Wisdom is Knowledge accordance to Gods will.

God created man in the image of God.  In his heart God implanted his will for us. Even the fall did not change man creation in the image of God. What we now need is the circumcision of the Heart. The Blood of Jesus does this for us.

In mans endless thirst for knowledge we are heading for destruction.  However his word promises that Jesus  is coming again and that we will reign as joint heirs with him.

The Bible tells us of what happened, is happening and what is to come. It guides us in our spiritual maturity to gain fully the fruit of the spirit.  We see in the Bible how Jesus lived. Spoke thought and acted. The living relationship with Jesus guides us. The Holy Spirit through the rheama Word of the Bible prompts and convicts and guides us in our  walk with Jesus.

Jesus lived a life of service and dedication. He continuously communed with the Father   followed his direction on the choices he had to make. He was born when Mary his Mother   was told of  his birth out of wedlock and he was conceived by the Holy spirit. Children gain original sin through their sinful Father. As his Father was God the Father who is divine and sinless he was born without original sin. He was named Jesus or Savior to perform his destiny to free the World of sin. Jewish family of the day are   named to perform their destiny.

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Govt.’s admission of truth of Mangala’s exposure - John Amarathunage

 Thursday, 26 June 2014 

The UNP says the police media spokesman’s statements confirm the truth of the revelations by party MP Mangala Samaraweera that intelligence was behind the incident in Beruwela.

Chief opposition whip John Amaratunga says in a statement that the present regime had done with the politicizing of the entire state mechanism through the abolition of the 17th amendment, and the armed forces were now being politicized.

The military and police spokesmen are now leading the government politcians in their involvement in politics, he charges.

Instead of dealing with matters of intelligence services in accordance with globally-accepted traditions, both these spokesmen were making various statements to the media.

The UNP statement stresses that MP Samaraweera had not revealed the identities of any intelligence official, but had mentioned the names of several top officials, whose names had come up both in and outside parliament on several previous occasions.

Even the state media has made references to these very officials by name several times, it points out adding that discussing intelligence chiefs is not considered an exposure of state secret anywhere in the world.

Had an MP made a false or baseless remark, it would have been responded to by the subject ministry, but the subject minister or the government spokesman are yet to make any statement regarding this issue, it says.

Other than accusing MP Samaraweera of having revealed the names of intelligence officers, the government has yet to reject the allegations contained in his statement, says the UNP statement.

Furthermore, the military spokesman does not have any legal powers to make remarks about intelligence services, which are operational not under the armed forces.

The police spokesman says investigations against MP Samaraweera are being held on the basis of media reports, although he himself previously has said that an investigation cannot take place based on media reports.

The government has no need to protect or uplift the masses who suffer due to the cost of living and the curtailment of free education and health services.

The Rajapaksa regime has no any intention other than making use of the entire state mechanism to ensure its own well-being, says the UNP statement, adding that it would bring this matter to the attention of parliament as well as the International Parliamentary Union.

SRI LANKA : An addiction to torture

17-year-old Sandun Malinga died in police custody on May 9, 2014. He had been wrongfully arrested and beaten. His repeated entreaties for medical attention because of the chest pains he suffered after the beatings were ignored. After his arrest and initial beating, he had been brought before a magistrate. He and his lawyers told the magistrate that he was suffering chest pains. Instead of following protocol and asking for the boy to be examined, the magistrate ignored their pleas and ordered the boy to be detained. He died the next day, still in custody.

His torture and death are part of a pandemic of abuse by state agents. Impunity for the perpetrators is virtually guaranteed. Torture is used for all kinds of reasons, including as revenge for complaints about torture. High-ranking police officers and the judiciary are also compliant in the abuse; complaints to IGPs and ASPs are rarely responded to, and magistrates register even the flimsiest cases by the police.

The Sri Lankan government encourages torture despite public gestures at the international level claiming that it is opposed to torture. The Convention against Torture Act (No. 22 of 1994) is not implemented anymore and this is a policy decision. Another avenue open for torture victims in the past was the filing of fundamental rights applications. This, too, has been discouraged for policy reasons.

The Supreme Court follows a policy of encouraging lawyers to settle cases by negotiation. A torture victim, therefore, is pressed to negotiate with the perpetrator. As a result of this policy, the number of fundamental rights applications on torture has dropped drastically. Thus, by way of official policy, torture victims are deprived of any possibility of finding legal redress. There is also no witness protection law and victims have been assassinated for pursuing justice.

Common methods of torture used in Sri Lanka range from beatings, sometimes with the victim hung upside down, to the use of chili powder applied to the eyes and genitals. Another common method is the use of the ‘dharma chakra’, when the accused is tied up between two poles and beaten. Victims are also often humiliated, forced to strip naked or, upon asking for water, told to drink from the toilet.

Another common practice is, subsequent to severe torture, police officers force the victims to sign blank sheets of paper. These are later used when fabricated charges are laid against victims. The compliance of the magistracy in police abuse is often seen in these cases.

In some cases, collective punishment is exercised in response to complaints about torture. For example, in April this year a group of nine men were arrested and tortured by the Matale police in response to a protest in front of the office of the Superintendent of Police. The protestors were responding to the Superintendent’s attack on a man who had been legally collecting firewood on the estate for this late wife’s almsgiving. The nine men arrested and tortured included people who were not present at the protest.

It can be said that the Sri Lankan police are addicted to torture. The responsibility is not only with low-ranking officers who may be directly involved in torture but also with high-ranking officers like the OICs, ASPs and DIGs, who fail to exercise their command responsibility to prevent torture. There is a belief among policemen that without the use of torture they are unable to do their job. The truth is also that torture creates opportunities for corruption.

Complaints of torture are filed with the IGP and also with the Human Rights Commission, despite the fact that human rights organisations are aware that no real investigations or prosecution will take place. There are hundreds of presentations on Youtube where victims tell their experiences of torture in graphic detail. 

Besides this, there are other documentations, such as for example the book that was published last year by the Asian Human Rights Commission documenting 400 cases of torture experiences, taken from around 1,500 cases studied by the Commission. The United Nations agencies dealing with torture, including the Committee against Torture, have made so many recommendations to SRi Lanka to investigate torture complaints and to prosecute offenders but the government ignores such recommendations. Besides the police, the Sri Lankan military are also accused of very serious acts of torture, particularly relating to the operation of anti-terrorism law. None of these complaints are being investigated.

Often, there are reports about custodial killings. Some are cases in which victims die due to excessive beatings, such as for example the 17-year-old Sandun Malinga, who was beaten to death recently in police custody. There are other instances in which so called bad criminals are killed, allegedly because they tried to escape from police custody or tried to harm policemen. Of course, such stories are fabricated but there is no authority that is ready to examine the circumstances of these deaths in custody. Therefore, it is no exaggeration to say that Sri Lanka is a torture republic. The only inaccuracy may be about the word ‘republic’, given the constitutional changes which have virtually created an authoritarian system.

Torture is part of the day-to-day operation of the Sri Lankan state. The democratic, rule-of-law-based system that existed in Sri Lanka has been systematically undermined and its governing institutions have been no longer function in their assigned roles. Following the collapse of the rule of law and a functioning criminal justice system, an alternative system based on state violence has been entrenched in Sri Lanka. The impeachment of Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake was the death knell of the Sri Lankan judiciary, the end of a slow death from multiple blows, one of the strongest of which was the 1978 Constitution itself. 

Without a functioning judiciary, there is no recourse for the citizen in the defence of their rights. At the highest level, Chief Justice Mohan Peiris asks torture victims to settle their cases, and at the lowest level magistrates ignore complaints of torture and return victims to custody, and refuse to inquire into deaths in custody, accepting police claims about self-defence.

At the moment, there are no reasonable grounds on which to believe that torture will be brought to an end in Sri Lanka. All indications are that this problem will increase due to the impunity enjoyed by the perpetrators.

LTTE Used Civilians As Human Shields, SL Army Shelled Civilians – AI Welcomes Establishment Of Sri Lanka Investigation

Martti Ahtisaari, former President of Finland

Amnesty International today said it welcomes the establishment of Sri Lanka war crimes investigation by UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

We publish below the statement in full;Issuing a statement the Amnesty International reiterates its call on Sri Lankan authorities to cooperate fully with the investigation and urges the UN and the international community to provide OHCHR with the necessary material and political support to make its investigation as robust and far-reaching as possible, including by ensuring effective protection of witnesses.

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay has announced that three experts with long and distinguished careers in human rights – Mr Martti Ahtisaari, Ms Silvia Cartwright and Ms Asma Jahangir – will assist a UN team investigating war crimes and other crimes under international law committed in Sri Lanka. Their appointment is a welcome sign of progress in the effort to establish once and for all what happened in the final phase of Sri Lanka’s long armed conflict and to ensure justice, truth and reparation for victims.

The investigation is a critically important step towards breaking the cycle of impunity that fuels ongoing and serious human rights violations in Sri Lanka, including attacks on individuals speaking out against abuses and demanding accountability.

According to credible eyewitness testimony and substantial bodies of evidence already collected by Amnesty International, UN bodies and other non-governmental organizations, both sides to the conflict, the Sri Lankan army and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) , committed war crimes and other crimes under international law during the period under investigation, including willful killings and enforced disappearance.

The LTTE used civilians as human shields and conscripted child soldiers; the Sri Lankan army shelled areas it knew were densely populated by civilians and people trapped by fighting suffered severe deprivation of food, water and medical care. When the conflict ended hundreds of thousands of people were arbitrarily detained in closed displacement camps under military guard – those suspected of links to the LTTE were detained separately and many were tortured; some disappeared. Families continue to demand information from the Sri Lankan authorities about the whereabouts of relatives they say they saw being taken into the army’s custody.  People advocating accountability for enforced disappearances have been harassed, threatened and arrested.

In March 2014, the UN Human Rights Council adopted a resolution ‘Promoting Reconciliation, Accountability and Human Rights in Sri Lanka’ mandating the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to undertake a comprehensive investigation into serious violations and abuses of human rights and related crimes by both parties in Sri Lanka during the period covered by Sri Lanka’s Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC), a body appointed by Sri Lanka’s President Rajapaksa to examine the last years of the armed conflict.  The LLRC was not effective in addressing impunity in Sri Lanka, but did it raise a number of important human rights concerns.

Amnesty International reiterates its call on Sri Lankan authorities to cooperate fully with the investigation and urges the UN and the international community to provide OHCHR with the necessary material and political support to make its investigation as robust and far-reaching as possible, including by ensuring effective protection of witnesses.

In particular, the investigation should pick up where the Secretary General’s Panel of Experts on Accountability in Sri Lanka left off in March 2011, when it found credible allegations which, if proven, “would amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity.” The current investigation should deepen that inquiry and strive to identify all those suspected of individual criminal responsibility for the crimes, including commanders and other superiors.

A comprehensive investigation of these very serious allegations is essential. Victims in Sri Lanka have bravely shared testimony and have high expectations that the inquiry will galvanise the international community to take action.  Violations this severe cannot be allowed to go uninvestigated and unpunished.

Army spokesman alarmed military informants behind Beruwala and Alutgama devastation will be exposed
(Lanka-e-News- 25.June.2014, 11.45PM) The army media spokesman Brigadier Ruwan Wanigasuriya addressing a media conference yesterday made a desperate attempt to clear himself of the blame before it is fastened on him . Before the cat was out of the bag he jumped out like a rat thereby unwittingly giving betraying the truths which he so zealously sought to conceal behind a whole heap of untruths.

He said , shielding behind parliamentary privilege , the names and details of those of the country’s intelligence division officers are to be exposed in Parliament in connection with the recent unsavory incidents of violence that raged in Alutgama and Beruwala. Such exposure is traitorous and it can convey a wrong impression internationally , he added. 

The Brigadier made frantic efforts to compare these incidents with Millenium city episode , while claiming that but for the intervention of the intelligence divisions , the violence that devastated Alutgama and Beruwala would have spread across the entire country.

It is very unfortunate the poor Brigadier who is apparently well accomplished in profuse lying is not intelligent enough to understand the truth in the maxim ‘the more he defends , the clearer it becomes it needs defense.’ 

It is common knowledge that it was not only the Bodhu Bala Sena (BBS) , but also robed laymen ,civilians and Gotabaya’s intelligence division officers wearing masks who were responsible for the brutal racial violence that was unleashed in Alutgama and Beruwala which claimed 9 lives including a week old infant , injured 176 persons, and destroyed over 150 homes and business places on a monstrous human rampage of arson and mayhem.

It is the responsibility of the Rajapakse regime to find the answer to the crucial question ,who committed two ruthless murders by shooting near the Alutgama mosque ? In Sri Lanka (SL) every bullet should bear the government’s registration number. If there is no such number , obviously those bullets have made their entry via illicit channels. During the LTTE period there were many such bullets. After the weapons of the LTTE were captured , these bullets were in the custody of the government . In the circumstances , the government certainly should be in a position to say the bullets that caused the two murders at Aluthgama are whose.

It is manifest , Investigations are not being launched in order to conceal its own ‘informants ’ who would otherwise be exposed . Even when the journalists held a media workshop at Hotel Gold sands , Negombo , it was Gotabaya’s army intelligence division informants wearing masks who broke into and hijacked the media workshop.

Currently , this intelligence division is engaged not in protecting and rescuing the country , but rather in carrying out the conspiratorial and criminal activities of the Rajapakses.

If the country is to be truly rescued , the first thing that should be done is , arrest LTTE leader K.P. and mete out punishment. Today , what Brigadier Wanigasuriya is doing while being the army chief is, cleansing the stench and squalor of the LTTE leaders , and carrying out the criminal conspiracies of the Rajapakses.

Wanigasuriya should feel ashamed for not speaking on behalf of , let alone remember that General Fonseka was his army chief and superior . Even when the latter was sentenced to jail and released , Ruwan Wanigasuriya did not utter a word , not to mention the betrayal of Fonseka he committed by removing his name from the name list of Army Commanders. 

The intelligence division officers are not above the law as Wanigasuriya claims. They must respect the laws of the country all the more as responsible armed officers. Wanigasuriya fearing that the cat will be out of the bag , had jumped out like a rat before the cat. Media spokesman for the forces, Wanigasuriya cannot disclaim responsibilities in respect of the crimes he is committing in partnership with the criminal defense secretary , Gotabaya Rajapakse.

It is well for Wanigasuriya to remember at least from now on he should practice wearing the ‘jumper suit’ so that he can be with Gota to dispel the latter’s loneliness, the day Gota goes to jail. 

FB accounts of BBS blocked

Thursday, 26 June 2014 

Facebook has taken measures to block Facebook accounts of the Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) and its officials.

Speaking to 'Sri Lanka Mirror', CEO of the BBS - Dilanthe Withanage has said that even his personal Facebook account has been blocked since this morning (June 26).

He added that the accounts have been blocked over the complaint of a certain individual or group.

A few days earlier, the Facebook accounts of the BBS and its General Secretary Ven. Gnanasara Thera have been blocked.

Noting that the website http://bodubalasena.net/owned by the BBS is also being blocked, Withanage further added that http://bodubalasena.com/ is being operated from overseas.

However, the http://bodubalasena.org/sinhala/index.phpwebsite has been suspended, he added.