Sri Lanka: Colombo based media exposed Rajapaksa & slain–Editor Telephone Conversation

An audio tape of Lasantha-Mahinda secret telephone conversation!

( December 19, 2016, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Colombo based media has exposed an audio tape of a secret telephone conversation between the slain ‘Sunday Leader’ editor Lasantha Wickrematunge and ex-president Mahinda Rajapaksa.

According to the report published by the Sri Lanka Mirror, an online daily news portal, “their conversation indicates that they had been very close friends.”

Lasantha was requesting President Rajapaksa to take immediate actions against those who are engaging in corruption. Then the President Rajapaksa asked possibilities of helping him catch at least a “small fish” who corrupted in the government to finish off, which Lasantha had agreed.

However, Rajapaksa was the president when Lasantha was murdered on 08 January 2009.