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Sunday, June 22, 2014
MH370 search: Pilot Zaharie Shah named as ‘chief suspect’ by Malaysian investigators after plans for Indian Ocean flight found on simulator
Police inquiry reportedly shows the captain had ‘made no plans’ for future after fateful 8 March flight
Sunday 22 June 2014
Malaysia’s criminal investigation into the disappearance of flight MH370 has identified the plane’s pilot as its prime suspect, it has been reported.
Media: Military surrounds SKorean soldier who killed 5 comrades
South Korean army soldiers on a truck search for a South Korean conscript soldier who is on the run after a shooting incident in Goseong, South Korea, Sunday. Pic: AP.
UPDATE: SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean media are reporting that military authorities have surrounded a soldier who killed five comrades at a border outpost the day before and were engaged in a gunfight with him.
Yonhap News agency and the YTN news channel said Sunday that authorities were trying to persuade the soldier, identified only by his family name Yim, to surrender.
Yim opened fire Saturday night with his standard issue K2 assault rifle at an outpost in Gangwon province, east of Seoul, killing five fellow soldiers and wounding seven others, according to a Defense Ministry spokesman who insisted on anonymity.
EARLIER STORY: The military searched Sunday for an armed South Korean soldier who fled after killing five of his comrades and wounding seven at an outpost near the North Korean border.
The sergeant, identified only by his surname, Yim, opened fire Saturday night with his standard issue K2 assault rifle at an outpost in Gangwon province, east of Seoul, according to a Defense Ministry spokesman. He spoke on condition of anonymity because of department rules.
Yim, who was scheduled to be discharged from the military in September, fled with his weapon, but it wasn’t clear how much live ammunition he had, the official said.
Defense official Kim Min-seok said Sunday at a televised briefing that all the wounded were expected to survive, although two were injured seriously. He said search operations were underway to quickly find Yim, without elaborating.
Park Cheol-yong, the head of Madal village, near the army division where the gunfire took place, said he warned villagers to stay in their houses. Park Jin-soo, a pastor at a church in the village, said that Sunday services would take place as usual despite the tension over the missing soldier and the shooting.
Thousands of troops from the rival Koreas are squared off along the world’s most heavily armed border.
There was no indication that North Korea was involved. But tensions between the two countries have been high recently, with North Korea staging a series of missile and artillery drills and threatening South Korea’s leader. The Koreas have also traded fire along their disputed maritime border in the Yellow Sea. South Korea has repeatedly vowed to respond with strength if provoked by the North.
Shootings happen occasionally at the border.
In 2011, a 19-year-old marine corporal went on a shooting rampage at a Gwanghwa Island base, just south of the maritime border with North Korea. Military investigators later said that corporal was angry about being shunned and slighted and showed signs of mental illness before the shooting.
In 2005, a soldier tossed a hand grenade and opened fire at a front-line army unit in a rampage that killed eight colleagues and injured several others. Pfc. Kim Dong-min told investigators he was enraged at superiors who verbally abused him.
All able-bodied South Korean men must serve about two years in the military under a conscription system aimed at countering aggression from North Korea.
The Korean Peninsula is still technically in a state of war as the 1950-53 Korean War ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty. About 28,500 U.S. soldiers are stationed in South Korea as a deterrent against North Korean aggression.
Saturday, June 21, 2014
TNA demands more security
By Luxmi Jayakody-June 21, 2014
The Tamil National Alliance (TNA), while welcoming a UNHRC investigation into alleged war crimes and human rights violations in Sri Lanka, has requested the visiting US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia, Atul Keshap, to ensure the safety of those who are expected to give evidence during the proposed investigation.
The TNA Leader R. Sampanthan MP, spokesman Suresh Premachandran, MP and Selvam Adaikalanathan, MP met the visiting US State Department official in the presence of US Ambassador to Sri Lanka Michele J. Sison in Colombo on Thursday.
The TNA leader had briefed Keshap on the recent statement made by Cabinet spokesman Keheliya Rambukwella that those who appear before the proposed UN investigation panel would be legally dealt with.
Speaking to Ceylon Today Premachandran said that they brought the issue to the notice of the US official and requested for protection. Responding to the TNA Parliamentarians, Keshap said the US would pay due attention to the UN investigation, and along with other countries, which share the same views over the Lankan issue, the US would ensure the safety of the victims of war.
Premachandran also said that Keshap was keen on verifying the current political situation with regard to the unresolved issues in the North and East.
The US official was also briefed on the Aluthgama incident by the TNA. The US official also added that he would discuss the issues brought to him by the TNA when he meets Government officials in Colombo and would also brief his department in the US on his return.
By Luxmi Jayakody-June 21, 2014The Tamil National Alliance (TNA), while welcoming a UNHRC investigation into alleged war crimes and human rights violations in Sri Lanka, has requested the visiting US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia, Atul Keshap, to ensure the safety of those who are expected to give evidence during the proposed investigation.
The TNA Leader R. Sampanthan MP, spokesman Suresh Premachandran, MP and Selvam Adaikalanathan, MP met the visiting US State Department official in the presence of US Ambassador to Sri Lanka Michele J. Sison in Colombo on Thursday.
The TNA leader had briefed Keshap on the recent statement made by Cabinet spokesman Keheliya Rambukwella that those who appear before the proposed UN investigation panel would be legally dealt with.
Speaking to Ceylon Today Premachandran said that they brought the issue to the notice of the US official and requested for protection. Responding to the TNA Parliamentarians, Keshap said the US would pay due attention to the UN investigation, and along with other countries, which share the same views over the Lankan issue, the US would ensure the safety of the victims of war.
Premachandran also said that Keshap was keen on verifying the current political situation with regard to the unresolved issues in the North and East.
The US official was also briefed on the Aluthgama incident by the TNA. The US official also added that he would discuss the issues brought to him by the TNA when he meets Government officials in Colombo and would also brief his department in the US on his return.
Another Tamil asylum-seeker attempts self-immolation in Melbourne
A boatload of asylum seekers arrive at Christmas island. Photograph: Jon Faulkner/AAP
Saturday 21 June 2014
Man on bridging visa fears torture by Sri Lankan authorities if forced to return to his homeland
Another Tamil asylum-seeker has attempted self-immolation in Melbourne as fear of being returned to torture in Sri Lanka grips the Tamil refugee community in Australia.
The man was taken by ambulance to Dandenong Hospital late last night after he splashed petrol on himself and tried to set himself alight at his house in the south-eastern suburb of Noble Park, according to a statement by the Tamil Refugee Council. His house-mates doused the flames quickly, having been alerted to his plan. He suffered minor burns to a leg and was expected to be discharged later today.
This follows two recent separate incidents of self-immolation by Tamil asylum-seekers. Leo Seemanpillai died after setting himself alight in a Geelong Street on May 31, while another man in Sydney survived after receiving burns to 75 per cent of body in April.
The Noble Park man, 40, who is on a bridging visa awaiting assessment of his claim for a protection, came to Australia by boat in 2012, the Tamil Refugee Council said. He had fled Sri Lanka, leaving behind his wife and young daughter, after he was bashed and had his legs broken by security police. He had learned last week that his brother, who had been in jail for four years, has officially “disappeared”.
A Tamil Refugee Council spokesperson, Sri Samy, who works closely with refugees and asylum seekers in the Dandenong area, said on Saturday that she had been fearing the worst after a number of Tamil asylum-seekers told her that they had lost hope that they would be protected from return to Sri Lanka.
“I have had seven young men tell me in the past few weeks that they are thinking of doing this. They are fearful of being sent back to Sri Lanka and say they would prefer to die here than be sent back to torture, which is what the Australian government is doing to many Tamil asylum-seekers.
“We are very lucky on this occasion that the man’s housemates were aware of what he was planning to do. Otherwise we may have had another death on our hands.”
The previous Labor government, and the current Coalition government, have sent back more than 1000 Tamil asylum-seekers under an “enhanced” screening process that does not allow time for proper assessment of asylum claims. The immigration minister, Scott Morrison, has said he wants to see all Sri Lankan asylum-seekers returned.
The Tamil Refugee Council called on Morrison to act now, and abide by his legal requirement to provide protection to genuine refugees, in order to alleviate the fear amongst Tamils and stop further deaths.
Can We (Not) Design Post War Democracy – In Sri Lanka ?
By Suren Rāghavan -June 20, 2014
Dr. Suren Rāghavan
Designing democratic developments in a post-conflict situation is ideologically, institutionally, and qualitatively, different from a post-colonial democratic construct. Reestablishing the vacuum of law and order and demilitarizing while the space for non –violent reasoning and debating towards a collective civic order will take priority. The genuine commitment of the political class to foster such environment, in which the new democratic possibilities can grow, is indispensable. No amount of international actors and their interventions can bring this condition, unless otherwise the indigenous elites are committed to democratic values.
What is happening in Sri Lanka at this stage seems exactly this-the rulers are not interested in democracy while the international actors are coming in the form of inquiry which is interpreted as a direct invasion. More countries have seen the return of conflict due the absence of above minimum conditions in their immediate post conflict period. Lanka has spent five full years after May 2009 when she comprehensively defeated the Tamil Tigers, ending over 25 years of civil war. Yet her possibility to normalcy and democracy has been totally undermined by a political class (or family). All southern elections became mere mechanism of consolidating power than sharing them. Governance is considered an opportunity for self-glories than for the goodness of all sections of the society. Media and freedom of information are limited with a militaristic embargo. Charges of corruptions are far more serious than the times of war. In essence, the victory at war has turned to a defeat of wider democracy. Gravitational center of such situation is due to a political culture depended on the culture and values of newer political elites.
Old Fires at New Village-(Aluthgama) Read More
The Liberal Party of Sri Lanka is deeply concerned at the recent breakdown in Law and Order and the exacerbation of communal violence that has taken place in the last couple of days. Whilst we still await further details of what actually happened, it is clear that the authorities have not acted with a sense of responsibility, in having permitted public demonstrations in an inflammable situation.
By Kamal Nissanka -June 20, 2014
Kamal Nissanka
The Liberal Party of Sri Lanka is deeply concerned at the recent breakdown in Law and Order and the exacerbation of communal violence that has taken place in the last couple of days. Whilst we still await further details of what actually happened, it is clear that the authorities have not acted with a sense of responsibility, in having permitted public demonstrations in an inflammable situation.
It is also worrying that there is no clear reporting of what is going on, since this leaves room for all sorts of rumours. In a context in which the government, understandably, feels that there are efforts at destabilization, it must be all the more careful to ensure that there is a clear chain of command so that the safety of all citizens can be ensured.
The intensity of the provocation being exercised seems related to the absence of the President from the country. This is understandable given that the general belief is that he is the only person fit and able to exercise authority. But this is not an acceptable situation, since clearly it is necessary for him to leave the country on occasion, not least because he is the only person in a position to represent the country credibly in other countries.
Anti-India Hysteria in Sri Lanka
By 20th June 2014
Colombo is witnessing anti-India demonstrations in an unprecedented scale. Chauvinist elements among the Sinhalese demonstrated outside the Indian High Commission, shouted slogans against prime minister Narendra Modi and Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayalalithaa and demanded that India should stop interfering in the internal affairs of Sri Lanka.
The demonstration was spearheaded by the National Freedom Front, a chauvinist Sinhala organisation which is a partner in the ruling coalition government. The outburst was an expression of Sinhalese indignation. They felt betrayed when Modi requested Mahinda Rajapaksa to fulfill his repeated assurances about the speedy implementation of the 13th Amendment.
The invitation to the heads of states of neighbouring countries to participate in the PM’s swearing-in ceremony was a welcome departure from past precedents. It was a clear message that New Delhi is keen to mend its fences and usher in an era of stability and progress in South Asia. But it takes two hands to clap. On his part, the Indian prime minister gave sufficient evidence that he was willing to extend his hand of friendship to all neighbours.
Rajapaksa was naturally elated with the invitation. He wanted to include all ethnic groups in his delegation and invited Wigneswaran, chief minister of the Northern Province, to be a member. Wigneswaran declined, he did not believe in tokenism. If he joined the team, Colombo can cite it as an illustration of the spirit of camaraderie among various ethnic groups. The Sri Lankan government was happy that the invitation was extended despite strong opposition by Jayalalithaa, Vaiko and other Tamil Nadu leaders. This, according to Colombo, was an illustration that the BJP, which got a majority on its own in the Lok Sabha, will not succumb to pressure from Tamil Nadu. What is more, the Sri Lankan High Commission in New Delhi had been able to win over few BJP leaders to their point of view on ethnicity and nation-building.
Minister for external affairs Sushma Swaraj had been developing her expertise in international affairs. Two years ago, as the Leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha, she led an all-party delegation to Sri Lanka. Before her visit she familiarised herself with the complexities of the ethnic issue and the Indian stakes involved not only by briefings from the mandarins of the South Block, but also in-depth discussions with Sri Lankan specialists in academia and think tanks. Her visit did not turn out to be a conducted tour. What further endeared Sushma to Sri Lanka watchers was the fact she found time to visit the hill country to exchange views with a cross section of Indian Tamils. She became sensitive to the reality that as a non-territorial minority the future of Indian Tamils can be guaranteed only if there is devolution from the provinces to the Pradeshiya Sabhas.
According to media reports, the Indian prime minister was forthright in his comments. He asked: why is there no progress in ethnic reconciliation? According to media briefing by the Indian foreign secretary, Modi requested Rajapaksa to expedite the process of national reconciliation in a manner that fulfilled genuine aspirations of the Tamils. He added that early implementation of the 13th Amendment and going beyond would contribute to this process.
The emphasis on the 13th Amendment and going beyond it was a direct offshoot of New Delhi’s disenchantment with the Lankan government. In order to get Indian support to the war against terrorism the Sri Lankan leaders repeatedly assured that Colombo would implement the 13th Amendment and even go beyond it. But in actual practice they were undermining the amendment. The merger of the north and the east has been undone by a judicial pronouncement. By establishing divisional secretariats, Colombo is running a parallel administration in the provinces. Wigneswaran has said even he cannot have a chief secretary of his choice to head the administration in the Northern Province.
Explaining Colombo’s version of what transpired in New Delhi, Prof. G L Peiris said he had explained why police powers cannot be given to the provinces. It is necessary to remind ourselves that Peiris was minister for law during the Chandrika Kumaratunga regime when he was passionately advocating substantial devolution of powers to the provinces. At the India-Sri Lanka Consultation on Devolution, he remarked: “In fact, we have no devolution at all. Decentralisation, yes, local government, yes, devolution, no.” Chandrika’s proposals for a union of regions and the draft constitution of 2000, which go far beyond the 13th amendment, are testimony to Peiris’ legal acumen. Sri Lanka should build on these foundations and usher in a new political system, which should not only provide for substantial devolution of powers to the provinces, but also have iron-clad guarantees that devolution shouldn’t lead to demand for separation.
India has vital stakes in the unity and territorial integrity of Sri Lanka. At the same time, New Delhi is keen that negotiations between the government and the TNA should resume immediately. The present stance of the Sri Lankan government is that the parliamentary select committee will suggest ways and means to solve the ethnic imbroglio. If the Indian experience has any meaning, ethnic insurgencies have been solved, whether in Punjab or in Mizoram, as a result of direct negotiations between New Delhi and affected parties. In the parliamentary select committee, the TNA will be a miniscule minority; it can be outnumbered and outvoted by brute Sinhala majority.
The Sinhalese leaders do not realise the fact that India alone can assist Sri Lanka in the present moment of deepening crisis. In the last Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva, India abstained from voting because New Delhi is strongly opposed to international investigations on human rights violations. What New Delhi had been advocating is the institution of a credible domestic mechanism to enquire into human rights violations and punish the guilty. Sri Lanka can ill afford to defy the world. By pursuing a policy of defiance, Colombo has already antagonised the United States and the European Union; it is cosying up to China and Pakistan, who follow a foreign policy of opportunism and cynicism and, what is more, Colombo is burning bridges with India. There is a Sanskrit saying, which explains succinctly the present tragic predicament of Sri Lanka: Vinasakale viparidha buddhi (In times of adversity, intelligence goes astray).
The writer is former senior professor, the Centre for South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of Madras.
Email:suryageeth@sify.com
TNA and TNPF protest in Jaffna against attacks on Muslims
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Rotten Egg Attacks On NOLIMIT Customers: A Twist To The NOLIMIT Fire
June 21, 2014
The government has taken the stance that the fire which gutted the NOLIMIT store was a result of an electrical system issue, The Colombo Telegraph learns.
The stance comes prior the release of the analysts report and only a few hours after the building which was the flagship store of the Muslim owned clothing chain was gutted,
However, sources on the ground told Colombo Telegraph that they heard ” several explosions” between 2.45 and 3.00 AM. At least three eye witnesses said that they say ” people running away from the store” during the time.
The General Manager of the NOLIMIT chain said that the entire building possesses a highly sophisticated and technologically advanced electrical system and dismissed the claim that the fire was a result of the an electrical short.
The Colombo Telegraph wasthe first to break the news of the fire in the wee hours of the morning today.
The No Limit chain had come under severe verbal abuse, and thereafter attack by mobs, following the targeted abuse by Galagoda atthe Gnanasara.
Gnansara called for the boycotting of the business establishment by the Sinhalese while abusing the business with vitriolic rhetoric.
The Websites of Sri Lankas leading English and Sinhala Daily’s were the first to carry out the version of a “suspected electric short”. Both papers have been non committal on the violence unleashed on the Muslims with no mention about the damages to lives and property.
Last year disturbing images have surfaced on an anti-Muslim Facebook page, that show rotten egg assaults on persons carrying shopping bags from a clothing chain vilified by hardline Sinhala groups carrying out a sustained campaign against Muslim enterprises.
The Facebook page, called Athugal Pura Sinha Pataw highlights the images of a man and a woman following an assault with eggs holding No Limit bags. The group’s motto is “Konda pana athi niyama sinhalayanta pamanai” (Exclusively for Sinhalese with a backbone)
Posted under the title Kurunegala Pursuit and Attack with Rotten Eggs and says “If you go to NOLIMIT or Fashion Bug we will attack. If you have their bags in your hand we will attack. And that is not all. Those who betray the race, even if they have police protection will be attacked with rotten eggs today, feces tomorrow.”
After Alutgama / Beruwela
SL Muslims at the Crossroads – 4
By Izeth Hussain-June 20, 2014
It is evident that after the anti-Muslim action in Alutgama and Beruwela on June 15 and the days following, the Sri Lankan Muslim problem has entered a new phase. There is no need for me to recapitulate the well-known details pointing to the government’s complicity in the anti-Muslim action.
NO LIMIT விற்பனை நிலையமும் இன்று தீக்கரை தொடரும் வன்முறை
TAMILKINGDOM
WE ARE TAMILS
இலங்கையின் முன்னணி ஆடை விற்பனை நிலையம்
நோலிமிட்டின் பாணந்துறை காட்சியறை சற்று முன் தீக்கிரையாக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது.
நோலிமிட்டின் பாணந்துறை காட்சியறை சற்று முன் தீக்கிரையாக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது.
இலங்கையின் முன்னணி ஆடை விற்பனை காட்சியறைகளில் நோலிமிட் நிறுவனம் வெளிநாடுகளிலும் புகழ்பெற்றது. இதன் உரிமையாளர் ஒரு முஸ்லிம் என்ற போதிலும், சுமார் இரண்டாயிரம் சிங்களவர்கள் மற்றும், ஆயிரத்து ஐநூறுக்கும் மேற்பட்ட தமிழர்களும் இந்த நிறுவனத்தின் மூலம் வருமானத்தைப் பெற்று வந்துள்ளனர்.
இந்நிறுவனம் சுமார் ஐயாயிரம் ஊழியர்களைக் கொண்டதும், நாட்டின் முக்கிய நகரங்களில் பல கிளைகளை் கொண்டதுமாகும். இந்நிலையில் பாணந்துறை நகரின் அரச மருத்துவமனை அருகில் அமைந்திருந்த நோலிமிட் நிறுவனத்தின் காட்சியறை சற்று முன் தீக்கிரையாக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது.
நிறுவனத்தின் ஊழியர்கள் சிலர் உள்ளே தங்கியிருந்த நிலையில், பொதுபல சேனா தீவிரவாதிகள் வெளியிலிருந்து நோலிமிட் காட்சியறைக்குத் தீவைத்துள்ளார்கள்.தீ வேகமாகப் பரவிய நிலையில், உள்ளே தங்கியிருந்த ஊழியர்கள் ஏழு பேர் பெரும் சிரமத்தின் மத்தியில் உயிர் தப்பியுள்ளனர். ஏனைய ஊழியர்களின் நிலை குறித்து தகவல்கள் தெரியவில்லை.
இதற்கிடையே கொழுந்து விட்டு எரிந்து கொண்டிருக்கும் தீயை அணைப்பதற்காக கொழும்பு உள்ளிட்ட இடங்களிலிருந்து தீயணைப்பு வண்டிகள் தருவிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளதாகவும் அறியக் கிடைத்துள்ளது.
2ம் இணைப்பு
பாணந்துறை நோ லிமிட் வர்த்தக நிலையம் தீ வைத்து கொளுத்தப்பட்டுள்ளது
கொழும்பின் புறநகர்ப் பகுதியான பாணந்துறையில் அமைந்துள்ள நோ லிமிட் என்ற முன்னணி ஆடை வர்த்தக நிலையம் தீ வைத்துக் கொளுத்தப்பட்டுள்ளது.
இன்று அதிகாலை இந்த சம்பவம் இடம்பெற்றுள்ளதாக தெரிவிக்கப்படுகிறது. சம்பவத்தில் வர்த்தக நிலையத்திற்கு பாரிய சேதம் ஏற்பட்டுள்ளது.
இனந்தெரியாத நபர்களினால் இந்த தாக்குதல் நடத்தப்பட்டுள்ளதாகத் தெரிவிக்கப்படுகிறது. தீ வைக்கப்பட்டதனால் ஏற்பட்ட சேதம் பற்றிய மதிப்பீடுகள் இன்னமும் மேற்கொள்ளப்படவில்லை.
நோ லிமிட் வர்த்தக நிறுவனம் முஸ்லிம்களுக்கு சொந்தமானது என்ற அடிப்படையில் இதற்கு முன்னரும் பொதுபல சேனா போன்ற பௌத்த கடும்போக்குவாத அமைப்புக்கள் மஹரகம உள்ளிட்ட சில கிளைகள் மீது தாக்குதல் நடத்தியிருந்தமை குறிப்பிடத்தக்கது
3ம் இணைப்பு
பாணந்துறையில் உள்ள நோலிமிட் மிகப் பெரிய உடுப்புக்கள் மற்றும் அலங்கார அணிகள் கொண்ட 3 மாடிகளைக் கொண்டவையாகும். நேற்று இரவு நடுநிசியில் நாசகார வேலையாளர்கள் கைவரிசையை காட்டியுள்ளனர்.
நோலிமிட்டின் பின்புறமாக கூரையின் மேல் ஏறி உள்ளுக்குள் தீ வைத்துள்ளனர். ஆனால் இந் நிலையத்தை வளைத்து வைத்தியசாலை பொலிஸ் நிலையம், ஏனைய வியாபார நிலையங்கள் உள்ளன. 5 மணிக்கே தீயணைக்கும் படையினர் வந்து தீயணைக்கின்றனர். ஆனால் சகலதும் முற்றாக அழிந்து எரிந்து சாம்பலாகியுள்ளது.
நோலிமிட்டின் மிகப் பெரிய வியாபார ஸ்தாபனம், கடந்த 2 வருடங்களை சொந்தக் கட்டிடத்தில் இந்த நிலையம் திறந்து வைக்கப்பட்டது. அண்மையில் அருகில் பாணந்துறை உள்ள வைத்தியசாலைக்கு 30 இலட்சத்திற்கும் பெறுமதியான வார்ட் ஒன்றையும் நோலிமிட் நிர்மாணித்து கொடுத்துள்ளது.
சட்டம் ஒழுங்கு அமைச்சின் செயலாளர், மேல் மாகாண பிரதிப் பொலிஸ் மா அதிபர், அமைச்சர் ரவூப் ஹக்கீம், பாணந்துறையை பிரதிநிதித்துவப்படுத்தும் அமைச்சர் றெஜினோல்ட் குரே ஆகியோரும் பார்வையிட்டுள்ளனர். அமைச்சர் ரவூப் ஹக்கீம், நாங்கள் அவசரமாக முஸ்லிம் பாராளுமன்ற உறுப்பினர்கள் ஒன்று கூடவுள்ளோம். இது முஸ்லிம்களின் பொருளாதாரத்தை திட்டமிட்டு அழிக்கும் மற்றுமொறு நாசகார செயல்லாகும். எனத் தெரிவித்தார்
அமைசச்ர் றெஜினோல்ட் குரே, இது பாணந்துறையிலும் முஸ்லிம் பௌத்த மக்களது இன ஐக்கியத்தை குழப்பும் நாசகார செயலாகும், பாணந்துறையில் பன்னெடுங்காலமாக இன ஜக்கியத்தை கட்டியெழுப்பினோம். அதனை ஒரு நொடிப்பொழுதில் தீயிட்டு கொழுத்திவிட்டனர். இதற்கு எனது கண்டனத்தை தெரிவிக்கின்றேன் என்றார்.
இதேவேளை பாணந்துறையில் நோலிமிட் தீ தொடர்பில் வதந்திகளை நம்ப வேண்டாமாம்- பொலிஸ்
பாணந்துறையில் நோ லிமிட் நிறுவனத்தின் தீ பரவல் தொடர்பில் வதந்திகளை நம்பவேண்டாம் என்று இலங்கையின் பொலிஸார் கோரியுள்ளனர்
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(Lanka-e-News- 20.June.2014, 11.55PM) It may sound incredible but it is true ! Sri Lanka’s (SL) criminal defense secretary Gotabaya Rajapakse had invited Bodhu Bala Sena (BBS) leader Gnanassara the racist monk and a group of his terrorist monks of that organization to participate in the security council chiefs’ meeting held 18th June at the defense Ministry. What’s more ? Gota had even gone as far as to defend them before the security chiefs. The criminal defense secretary had stated brazenly the BBS has nothing to do with the racial violence and terror unleashed at Alutgama and Beruwala, thereby exonerating them of the heinous crimes they committed in broad daylight . Gotabaya had heaped all the charges on the JVP and UNP.This meeting that was convened at about 10.00 am. was attended by BBS terrorist organization leader Galagoda Aththe Gnanassara, co ordinating secretary Embilipitiya Wijitha , Aththaragama Gnanawimala , and Vitharaadeniye Nanda who are members of BBS .
At the discussions that lasted about 3 hours , a postmortem was conducted on the recent communal riots.
‘It is wrong to accuse these Ven. monks. If you are telling that people were incited by the speech of our monks, then why didn’t the people get aroused and attack when Anagarika Dharmapala in his speech told ‘Sinhala people awake?’ People did not.
‘Our army intelligence division in its report had dcelared , it is the JVP and the UNP that have by most craftily planting their spies within the BBS who had organized and launched this attack ,’ Gotabaya concocted . At that juncture , Gnanassara said ‘we also have the list regarding that. I shall give that to you. If I were not there they would have attacked us with rods and clubs.’
‘This has become a good tool for those who are inimical to the government . In the past , when opposition was mounted against the government there were similar incidents of attacks launched on those who opposed the government at various venues.
By planting UNPers and JVP ers among the protestors surreptitiously the demonstrations were sabotaged. These were publicized internationally and the image of the government was tarnished. Hence these groups whose whole aim is to bring the country into disrepute indulge in these activities by design.’ Gotabaya went on the explain with all his criminal might . ‘Tomorrow I am expecting to invite the Muslims too, ‘ he added. Gotabaya then turning towards the IGP said , ‘IGP , arrange to furnish me with all details tomorrow of the losses caused’
Gota at the same time gave instructions to continue with the STF security for a further week . In the midst of all these melodramatic acts of Gota , Gnanassara the terrorist monk too played his role in the pavement drama well and thoroughly . He said , he is facing death threats and handed over a letter in that connection to Gota. The latter immediately gave instructions to the IGP to provide Gnanassara with STF security detail. The IGP in response to this stated, if STF security is given at this juncture , it will become too public , and become a source of trouble. Therefore he proposed that MSD security detail shall be given to him.
Gota then gave counter instructions to the IGP that if he has such issues , to dress them in civil attire . Thereafter ,Gota emphasized , if anyone wishes to interrogate any monk or arrest , he must first intimate to him (Gota) .
“On the day previous to this launching of attacks , there was a news report in the front page of the Silumina newspaper quoting JVP leader Anura Dissanayake as saying at a conference of Muslims , ‘hit back if you are attacked.’
JVP leader’s speech has been completely taped , and according to it , he had not made such a statement. It is therefore clear why the Silumina made such a bogus report ., and the public by now would have understood well who hatched this conspiracy
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