Abductions on rise in Vanni, Red Cross joins SL Police in refusing to register complaints

[TamilNet, Thursday, 08 December 2011, 07:47 GMT]
A 23-year-old Tamil youth was abducted Tuesday night by armed men who came in a white van while the youth, Ganeshamoorthy Rathan, was talking to his friends along roadside in Kaadduvinayaakar temple area of his native village, Mu'l'liyava'lai of Mullaiththeevu district. Mr. Rathan was brought to his house and instructed to park his bicycle at his house. When the mother of the victim suspected that her son was under pressure by unknown men who accompanied him, the men pulled out a gun and said they were from the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the SL Police and instructed Mr. Rathan to get into the van. When the family members went to the SL Red Cross office situated in Mullaiththeevu, the officials at the office refused to accept the complaint and said they do not register such complaints. 

The SL Police in Mu'l'liyava'lai was also resisting to register the complaint from the family till Wednesday. The police later allowed the family to file the complaint. 

Ganeshamoorthy Rathan was not associated with the LTTE in the past, according to his family and relatives. 

The abductions, again on increase in Vanni, have created an atmosphere of tension and fear among the Tamil people. 

Informed paramilitary circles say that the Sri Lankan Defence Ministry in Colombo is behind an elite squad that carries out many of the abductions these days. The armed men who usually come in unregistered vehicles also seem to instruct the victims to park or hand over their bicycles or motorbikes to their family or relatives without evoking suspicion. During the abductions, the victims are attached wireless devices and are accompanied by men in civil who keep an eye on them, making a smooth appearance of the abduction.

Lanka says no "indecent hurry" to make war report public

TIMES ONLINE   THURSDAY, 08 DECEMBER 2011

Colombo, Dec 8 (PTI) Responding to criticism that the government was deliberately delaying making public the report of the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC), the Sri Lankan government today said there was no indecent hurry to do so.

"We do not agree with the view that there should be an indecent hurry to make it public", Keheliya Rambukwella, the minister of media and the government spokesman told reporters.

He said president Mahinda Rajapaksa was studying it closely and it would be presented in parliament at the appropriate time.

Rambukwella said there was no question of a delay in its presentation adding "the 9/11 commission in the US took five years to release its report".

The LLRC appointed by Rajapaksa to look back at the island''s separatist conflict involving the LTTE handed their report on November 20.

It is being speculated here that the report might be presented in Parliament on or before December 21.

The contents of the report are not known but is expected to address concerns over Lanka''s rights accountability during the last phase of the military offensive against the LTTE.

The LLRC has come under international focus ever since the UN secretary general Ban Ki Moon''s special advisory panel issued its report in April accusing both the government and the LTTE of war crimes.

The panel advocated an international investigation into accusations.

Sri Lanka while denying human rights violations cited the LLRC as its own mechanism for accountability.

Long secret phone discussion between Regime and Alles on how to make Fonseka kneel down before the regime

(Lanka-e-News-07.Dec.2011, 11.55PM) ‘Yesterday , some Lawyers who are bootlickers of this Govt. had told over a broadcasting channel that my wife is going behind foreign countries to save me. If there is no justice in this country , our seeking international assistance is not something to feel ashamed of. We are truly patriotic to the country , but we cannot patiently wait and watch until these wretched politicians plunge this country into mass scale ruination . Jayawewa’ . Gen. Fonseka made these comments when he was brought to Nawaloka Hospital for medical treatment to an ailment on his forehead.

The Govt. is carrying out a publicity gimmick : that is , it is questioning , why are signatures being taken for a public petition to urge the US States Dept. to intervene for the release of Fonseka ,and seek foreign countries , when the President would grant the pardon here , if such a pardon is requested ?’

According to inside sources of the regime , it is the objective of the Rajapakse regime using Tiran Alles with whom it has secretive diabolic dealings to make Gen. Fonseka to kowtow to the regime and also try to show to the ‘world’ that the regime is standing by and acting on behalf of him and his family.

Like how Anoma Fonseka was obstructed from participating in the massive demonstration staged at Hyde Park ,the MaRa regime is planning via Tiran Alles to make Gen. Fonseka to kneel down before the MaRa regime and beg for pardon.

A powerful individual of the MaRa regime had had long discussions with Alles on the 3rd in this connection.

Tiran Alles’ explanation to Fonseka family was ,that prior to the three year jail sentence being passed on Gen. Fonseka, his arranging to launch his newspaper and publish a supplement wishing all the best to MaRa on the day the judgment was delivered, was to influence and induce a favorable verdict for Gen. Fonseka . In any event , by now Tiran Alles’s ‘double game’ trying to get the best from both sides , and his attempts to conceal his self seeking objectives is eventually turning out to be a dismal failure.

‘BayaGotha’ increased white Van abductions to instill fear among the public: Colombo DIG is linked

Abducted victim’s nephew contested elections under the Govt. party

(Lanka-e-News-07.Dec.2011, 11.55PM) The white Van abductions have been increased again in order to curb and control the rapidly growing people’s opposition and resentment against the MaRa regime and to instill fear in the public, according to sources from within the Police. Christofer Fernando , the businessman who was abducted on the 5th by the white Van at Jampettah street is an uncle of Antony Yardley Fernando alias Roy Fernando who contested the recent Municipal elections under the SLFP ticket. These crimes are to instill fear in the public on the basis that ‘ if the Govt. is abducting those who contested under it . What can’t it do to us?’ ‘BayaGotha’ of course has summoned two special security Council meetings and notified them. He had told the police not to panic over the abductions that are committed by the defense Ministry.IGP Illangakoon had not been summoned for both meetings , and only DIG Anura Senanayake of Colombo who is in charge of the CCD was summoned for them . As Anura Senanayake is due for retirement in 11 months time, he is stooping to perform all the unlawful orders and actions on the directives of ‘BayaGotha’ in order to obtain an extension in service. May we recall that Lanka e news earlier revealed all the unsavory and deadly details of the modus operandi of the white Van abductions and of the disabled Sergeant Major Maddumage Vasantha who conducted these criminal operations. Those within the police itself who are opposed to these unlawful criminal activities exposed to ‘Lanka e News’ that it was Anura Senanayake who gave the police cover up and protection to these abductions. However , the police spokesman says, the abductors of Christofer Fernando in broad daylight before the full gaze of the public with complete impunity , had avoided the police barriers and checkpoints when fleeing. This is an intriguing ‘story’ . How could that happen ? Can they escape in that manner avoiding the police barriers and checkpoints ? Is the telephone line 119 dead or defunct ? The regime chief at a recent meeting held at Temple Trees had inquired ‘ Now, Ranil has taken to the streets. The JVP had also broken the steel fences and come out . How can these happen when Gota has also got down to action?’ , the media revealed.

Language ‘barrier to reconciliation’

ucanews.com December 7, 2011

Inter-religious forum identifies obstacles to creating lasting peace after civil war

Religious leaders attend a Caritas conference in Colombo

Failure to speak the same language compounds the major challenges preventing reconciliation in the country following 30-years of civil war, according to a forum of inter-religious leaders.
“Mistrust and doubt prevails among Sinhalese and Tamils when they associate,” according to Bishop Cletus Chandrasiri Perera, Chairman of the Episcopal Commission on Inter-religious and Ecumenical Dialogue.
He was addressing a recent conference in Colombo organized by Caritas Sri Lanka, in association with the Consortium of Humanitarian Agencies.
These obstacles are compounded by language barriers, but can be overcome if more efforts are made to bridge this gap and show respect and tolerance to others with help from various religious bodies, he said.
The bishop’s views were echoed by Hindu priest, Siva Sri Ramachandran Babu Sharma, vice-president of the Hindu Advisory Council, who however expressed hope that this might be beginning to change.
“Tamils and Sinhalese have traditionally been reluctant to learn both languages, but now are being compelled to through government and NGO projects which are positive signs,” he said.
Despite Sinhala and Tamil being Sri Lanka’s official languages there has been a traditional reluctance among the two communities to learn the language of the other.
The religious leaders said it was this basic breakdown in communication which sparked riots after 1958 and the long-running war.
“We will form village level inter-religious groups and organize more awareness programs to overcome these challenges. Sinhala and Tamil new year is one occasion to cultivate unity and harmony,” the Hindu priest said.
Venerable professor Bellanwila Wimalarathane Nayaka Thero, chancellor of Sri Jayawardanapura university, said although bad memories are still fresh people need to look to the future.
“It is hard but people on both sides have to change the way they think. Sinhalese and Tamils must try to forget the bad memories of the past and not throw stones at each other,”he said.

Lanka govt, Tamil party lock horns over devolution talks

PTI | 06:12 PM,Dec 07,2011

Colombo, Dec 7 (PTI) Talks between Sri Lankan government and the main Tamil party TNA over devolution of power have been hit by differences over a parliamentary procedure and three key demands raised by the latter, but the two sides have decided to continue discussions next week. Nimal Siripala de Silva, the senior minister who led yesterday's sixteenth round of talks with the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) said despite the disagreement the next round of talks would be held on December 14. The two sides have had a disagreement over three key points in TNA's proposals handed over to the government in March. The government sources said today that TNA's points of contention over the re-merger of the north and east provinces, and land and legislative powers to the provincial councils did not find favour with the government. The disagreement together with the already existing differences over how the devolution package be taken up by the parliamentary select committee have resulted in considerable friction. The TNA presses for full implementation of the devolution framework outlined in the thirteenth amendment established in 1987 under the backing of the Rajiv Gandhi government. The thirteenth amendment led to the setting up of a provincial council for each of the island's nine provinces. However, the north and east provinces where the Tamil minority seeks autonomy remained merged as a single province until 2006 when the Supreme Court ruled that two provinces need to be separated. The latest round of talks between the TNA and the government came yesterday in spite of a separate spat involving the parliamentary select committee (PSC) process on devolution. The government which wants PSC to run parallel with the bilateral talks with the main Tamil party insisted that TNA named their members to represent it. The TNA disagreed on the grounds that the agreement reached at the previous rounds was that the government would first submit its proposals to be taken up at the PSC before TNA could name its members. This prompted the government to accuse the TNA of trying stalling tactics. "The TNA should now decide whether it still wanted to lead Tamils on an ideological path or adopt a tangible action plan benefits for the masses," Sajin Vas Gunawardena, a government parliamentarian at the talks with TNA said. PTI CORR WAJ

Sri Lanka Killing Fields Screening Without Kohona, White Flag Killings Raised

Kohona and Silva with their film at UN, both skipped Asia Society

By Matthew Russell Lee

UNITED NATIONS, December 6 -- When the Asia Society scheduled screenings of Killing Fields of Sri Lanka and the government's response for December 6, it was said that the country's Permanent Representative to the UN Palitha Kohona would be present to answer questions.

  But in the run-up to the screenings, it was alternately said that Kohona was tied up in meeting at the UN -- hard to believe, given that the only General Assembly meeting of the day, about the Law of the Sea, ended before 6 pm -- or that he canceled not wanting to undercut the release of the Mahinda Rajapaksa commissioned Lessons Learnt & Reconciliation Commission report (which has yet to be formally released to the public.)

  Since Kohona and his deputy Shavendra Silva were willing to speak at the UN while screening the government response -- as reported here, the screening of Killing Fields never took place in the UN -- the excuse about not undercutting the LLRC seems strange.

  Kohona previously bragged that UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon had seen the government's rebuttal without actually watching Killing Fields - click here for that.

  Some wonder if the mounting questions about Kohona's involvement in the so-called white flag killings of surrendering LTTE leaders, arranged involving UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's chief of staff Vijay Nambiar, led to his cancellation.

  Meanwhile while Nambiar read out a statement that Ban will only allow senior officials to serve five years in their post, he refused Inner City Press' question about whether this rule applied to him. Later it was said it applies to everyone. Watch this site.

Wednesday, 07 December 2011

Sri Lanka: Church officials will file complaint for raid on Catholic orphanage

Church leaders in Sri Lanka are planning legal action against the government officials who raided an orphanage run by the Missionaries of Charity and arrested the religious superior.

Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith of Colombo reacted angrily to the arrest of Sister Mary Eliza, who was released on bail after being charged with profiteering from adoptions. Church officials have announced plans to file a complaint against the director of the country’s child-protection agency, which authorized the raid on the orphanage.

Church leaders concede that the orphanage was overcrowded-- because of the severe need in the country—and some paperwork was overdue. But the Missionaries of Charity, the order founded by Mother Teresa, insisted that they had never received money for the adoptions they arranged.

Church leaders concede that the orphanage was overcrowded-- because of the severe need in the country—and some paperwork was overdue. But the Missionaries of Charity, the order founded by Mother Teresa, insisted that they had never received money for the adoptions they arranged.

The 62 Ratnapura ballots: acid test of THE RajapaksA regime’s credibility

Wednesday, December 07, 2011
The astounding declaration made by a former Examiner of Questioned Documents P.H.Manatunga that the 62 ballot papers found after the presidential election of 2010 near the Ratnapura Technical College ‘were originals printed on security paper’ calls for immediate investigation by authoritative independent persons.
A letter from Manatunga to this effect was tabled in parliament on Thursday by Deputy Leader of the UNP Karu Jayasuriya.
The ballot papers had been marked in favour of Sarath Fonseka who lost the election to Mahinda Rajapaksa. Fonseka polled 4,173, 185 votes (40 per cent of the votes cast) as against 6,015,934 votes (57 percent) by the winner Mahinda Rajapaksa.     Read More »

TNA and government to meet again

The Tamil National Alliance and the government have decided to have more discussions next week.

TNA MP Suresh Premachandran said that at the discussion held last evening the government had reservations over three proposals put forward by the TNA

The proposals included devolving police powers to the provinces and to re-merge the North and East.

However despite the disagreement both parties will meet again this month to discuss the political solution to address Tamil issues.

TNA MP M. Sumanthiran told The Sunday Leader that the next round of talks will be based on the three issues on which the government had reservations yesterday.

The government had been earlier insisting that the TNA take part in the parliamentary select committee. However the issue was not raised at the talks yesterday.

Gota to be appointed to parliament in place of Priyantha Bandara

The President is looking at appointing Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa to parliament soon after the conclusion of the 2012 budget debate and appoint him as the Deputy Minister for Defence and Urban Development, a senior government minister said.

UPFA National List MP Priyantha Bandara is to resign from parliament soon after the budget concludes on December 21st in order to make way for Gotabhaya’s appointment to parliament. The senior minister said the President wanted to assign many responsibilities to Gotabhaya once appointed to parliament.

The President has decided to fill the vacancy of the Defence Secretary by appointing Sri Lanka’s ambassador to Japan and former navy Commander Wasantha Karannagoda to the post.

The minister who gave us the information said that Gotabhaya’s appointment is expected to break Minister Basil Rajapaksa’s monopoly in parliament.

An Arab Spring: this Revolution will not be stolen

 
As the Arab world joins Egyptians in celebrating the ousting of Hosni Mubarak, Ceasefire editor-in-chief Hicham Yezza says we should not forget how this victory was clinched from the jaws of mounting disappointment. The time now is for vigilance, to protect the gains so far and to ensure the Arab uprising continues, bigger and wider than ever before.

By Hicham Yezza
“What happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object?” many a theologian, philosopher and dilettante asked themselves down the millennia, with no answer. Well, Hosni Mubarak, that most unmovable of objects has now been moved, aside and across the horizon, by an irresistible force: the courage, determination and heavy sacrifice in blood and tears of millions of Egyptians. Whilst we savour this historic, almost unthinkable victory, we should nonetheless keep in mind a few simple truths.Full Story>>>

It’s a long way to the Arab Spring in Sri Lanka. We are still stuck in the winter of our discontent!

groundview journalism For citizens  7 Dec, 2011

Image from Ceasefire Magazine
“Nearly all children nowadays were horrible. What was worst of all was that by means of such organizations as the Spies they were systematically turned into ungovernable little savages, and yet this produced in them no tendency whatever to rebel against the discipline of the Party. On the contrary, they adored the Party and everything connected with it… All their ferocity was turned outwards, against the enemies of the State, against foreigners, traitors, saboteurs, thought-criminals. It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children.” – George Orwell

The Arab spring is fast becoming a global phenomenon in the sense that it is an inspiration and metaphor for branding the anti-government protestors around the world, reimagining of the geopolitical relations, and has promoted many governments (e.g. China) to take precautions to prevent it happening in their own countries.   The dawn of ‘Arab Spring’ in Sri Lanka, however, is still a distant dream, despite the fact that the necessary preconditions for it are abundant.

Sri Lanka under fire over PR firm Bell Pottinger speech

 

President Rajapaksa's UN speech was allegedly ghost-written by Bell Pottinger
In a report on Tuesday, the Independent quoted a Bell Pottinger company spokesman as saying it wrote a speech the president gave to the UN in 2010.

The spokesman is quoted as saying the speech was "very well received".

Bell Pottinger has so far not commented on the contents of the Independent's report.

 

Bell Pottinger staff attended a meetings of expatriate Tamils in London last year

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The peace dividend

the pioneer

The LTTE is no more. The war against terror has been long won. But Sri Lanka is yet to ensure devolution of political power to the country’s Tamil minority.

We have to thank a Sri Lankan scholar who must remain unnamed for reminding India that it has an unfinished task in Sri Lanka: That of helping the Tamils secure political devolution through a negotiated settlement for sustainable peace. It’s a position with which the Sri Lankan Government was always in accord. The civil war is over, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam is no more, and yet a political solution to the national question appears only remotely possible.

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Keeping commitments and obtaining international assistance

President Mahinda Rajapaksa, accompanied by his wife Shiranthi Rajapaksa arrives for the opening ceremony of the southern highway in Welipenna, Sri Lanka, Sunday, Nov. 27, 2011.

by Jehan Perera

There is a hope that Sri Lanka is on the verge of economic take-off, which is yet to happen. The government takes the public position that all is well with its plans to make the country an economic success story. The growth figure of 7 to 8 per cent is given as proof that development is happening.  For a small country like Sri Lanka it is important that economic relations with other countries are secured so that markets are obtained for what the country produces.  However, the connection between economics and politics needs to be borne in mind.  Sri Lanka lost the European Union’s GSP Plus tariff privilege on account of its inability to meet human rights standards.Read more...

News Release-Bell Helicopter Delivers 412s to Sri Lanka Air Force

Bell Helicopter Delivers 412s to Sri Lanka Air Force

Fort Worth, TX – December 1, 2011 – Bell Helicopter, a Textron Inc. company (NYSE: TXT), announced today it delivered two Bell 412s to the Sri Lanka Air Force during a ceremony at its facility in Piney Flats, Tennessee. “We’ve had a strong partnership with the Sri Lanka Air Force for more than 40 years,” said Larry D. Roberts, senior vice president for Bell Helicopter’s Commercial Business. “This is a great day for Bell Helicopter as we continue to celebrate this relationship,” he said. Attending the ceremony and accepting the keys to the new Bell 412s was Air Marshall Abeywickrema representing the Sri Lanka Air Force.        Full Story>>>

Tense situation down Jampatah Lane

TUESDAY, 06 DECEMBER 2011 
A tense situation prevailed down Jampatah Lane today over the abduction of a businessman who was known to be a high profile money lender in Kotahena. He was abducted on Monday morning. A protest was also held in Kotahena with the participation of more than 300 people in the area. Pix by Pradeep Dilruckshana




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We wrote Sri Lankan President's civil war speech, say lobbyists

Exposed: Public relations firm's dealings with some of the world's most controversial regimes.

Senior executives at Bell Pottinger told undercover reporters that they were so influential that they had written a key speech given by the Sri Lankan President to the United Nations.

During the address by President Mahinda Rajapaksa last year, which the company said was used in preference to one prepared by the Sri Lankan foreign ministry, the President suggested rules governing the humanitarian conduct of war should be re-examined. He also described his troops' action against Tamil Tiger separatists as humanitarian.

President Rajapaksa also claimed in the speech that a Commission established by the government to look into the last years of the civil war, was giving "full expression to the principles of accountability". The Commission has been heavily criticised by human rights groups including Amnesty International because it does not have a mandate to hold individuals to account for war crimes.

"We had a team working in the President's office. We wrote the President's speech to the UN last year which was very well received... it went a long way to taking the country where it needed to go," David Wilson, the chairman of Bell Pottinger Public Relations, said during the meeting with undercover reporters.

But during the meeting Mr Wilson seemed to agree with Amnesty, describing the Commission as having a "fundamental flaw in its remit in investigating what has gone on in the past, to try to bury the past".

The company also attended a meeting of Tamil dissidents in London, the British Tamils Forum (BTF) said. Days before President Rajapaksa's arrival in London in December 2010, Tim Ryan, the chairman of Bell Pottinger International, and a colleague attended an open political meeting in Harrow organised by the BTF and the Nava Sama Samaja [New Social Equality] Party.

Gobi Ratnam, a Tamil journalist who chaired the event said the pair stood out as the only white people present. They said they were from Bell Pottinger. "They said they wanted to listen to our problems, to learn and help the Sri Lankan people," Mr Ratnam said. "A lot of people were talking to them."

Dr Wickremabahu Karunaratne, the Sinhalese general secretary of the NSS Party who ran for president in 2010, gave a speech at the meeting in which he called for Tamil forces to join a new alliance of opposition members and breakaway groups to challenge the government – comments that were widely reported.

There is no suggestion that Bell Pottinger did anything illegal in its dealings with the Sri Lankan government.

Part of Bell Pottinger's remit was to influence the foreign media in favour of the Sri Lankan government.

The firm sub-contracted its work in the United States to the firm Qorvis, which placed an article by President Rajapaksa in the Philadelphia Inquirer in December 2009 entitled "How Sri Lanka Defeated Terrorism". In the piece the President suggested Sri Lanka had provided a "workable model" for defeating terrorism, from which the international community could gain "valuable insight".

In February 2010, the Wall Street Journal published a piece that discussed the "peaceful" election which returned Rajapaksa to power, and prompted several letters complaining of government violence against its critics.

Bell Pottinger has been less successful at placing such articles in the UK press. the government's opinions. In December 2009 the firm reportedly pitched a piece to The Guardian which it declined to publish.

Can you see Gota’s value? – President asks Ministers

Monday, 05 December 2011 

The President had recently asked several ministers at Temple Trees whether people used to protest on the streets when Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapksa was involved in political work.

“Even Ranil is on the streets and the JVPers march toppling barricades. None of these happened when Gota was involved,” the President has said.

The President has noted that Gotabhaya has completely moved out of politics and has blamed several ministers for it.

The President has explained that he was holding office and ministers enjoyed perks and privileges because Gotabhaya had defeated terrorism in the North and East. He has condemned the actions of Minister Fowzie, Susil Premajayantha and Maithripala Sirisena and MP Thilanga Sumathipala against Gotabhaya following the Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra’s murder.

The President has noted that he was aware that what happened to Gotabhaya could happen to him and would therefore make decisions in future giving prominence to his security.

Last Updated on Monday, 05 December 2011 14:59

The true story behind Mohan Lal Grero's somersault: Ravaya Editor, not second to Grero

(Lanka-e-News-05.Dec.2011, 11.55PM) The true story behind Mohan Lal Grero who somersaulted to the MaRa regime ostensibly to serve the children of this country ‘like his own life’, and who earned the displeasure of all has now come to light.

Grero has to pay a sum of Rs. 70.2 million as income taxes to the Govt. ; Economic service levy of Rs. 59 lakhs ; national defense levy –Rs. 2 Lakhs. The total collection of levies due is Rs. 89000/-

Not a single cent has been paid by this so called national minded citizen whose love for children professedly is oozing at every pore in his body. Now the question is , has he any need to pay them or not following his treachery ? Grero ‘s love for children flows over only when he is thinking of a way to cheat on these payments. Naturally therefore the pristine children of the nation are reminded of Grero’s mother when realizing the wretched and diabolic ‘love’ of his for them.
The ‘Ravaya’ Editor , another unscrupulous and shameless individual is of the same ilk of Grero from the point of view of making a fast buck and sordid gains, ever ready to sacrifice even his soul at the altar of selfish advancement and greed for filthy lucre. This Editor who had brought shame on the entire journalistic profession by his degrading behavior stooped to the lowliest of levels to fawn on the Rajapakse regime by pretending not to notice the regime’s corruption and robbery of public funds in millions , not for nothing : The MaRa regime helped this Ravaya Editor to evade his income tax payment in arrears for several years amounting to Rs. 16.5 millions , and by giving advertisements of the Govt. to be published via his paper , he was helped to resuscitate his Institution . Lanka e news is in possession of every detail of these sordid and underhand deals .

These shameless individuals cannot say they have strengthened the ‘two hands’ of MaRa after having taken advantage of the tax evasion . They cannot see the truth or expose the untruths , or say they are aware that people are duped and deceived beyond anything they are accustomed to by this regime , for they are themselves an intimate and integral part of those crimes and criminals. They wont talk of their treachery and treason they are committing on the people by cheating on the people ‘s funds by evading taxes helped by an equally guilty corrupt lawless regime.. The regime which assists traitors to cheat on the people are equally guilty of treason , or even worse. 
People who live in glass houses should not throw stones at others.