Sri Lanka: Revenge, KT Rajasingham Style

Wednesday, 21 November 2007

The offices and printing press belonging to Sri Lanka's Sunday Leader and its sister Morning Leader newspapers were torched in the early hours of Wednesday. According to initial police reports, at least a dozen masked men broke into the premises, wielding T56 assault rifles, threatened the printing staff and set fire to equipment worth millions of rupees. The printing house was situated at 24, Katukurunduwatta Road, Rathmalana, just yards from the Ratmalana Air Force base and is well with in the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) High Security Zone.

On Sunday, 11 November 2007, the Sunday Leader had exposed the role plaid by Asia Tribune web-log owner/editor in the 'diplomatic passport for paramilitary leader Karuna' fiasco. It was followed by a rash of threatening emails and phone calls to the Editor Mr Lasantha Wikramatunga and investigative journalist Ms Sonali Samarasinghe.

On the Wednesday, 14 November 2007 edition of the mid-weekly Morning Leader Sonali Samarasinghe wrote of the threats she has been subjected to and asked the Asia Tribune owner/editor to give his side of the story.

The following Sunday, 18 November 2007, the Sunday Leader went on to expose more threats made by KT Rajasingham against several Ministerial offices. It also published transcripts of calls KT Rajasingham made to Karuna paramilitary group leader Pillaiyan.

Reliable sources say that today's edition of the Morning Leader is to have carried further revelations in to the activities of KT Rajasingham and his Asia Tribune.

Meanwhile, a paramilitary media outlet linked to Pillaiyan said: "Master told them several time. They need to know who we are." Master is what Pillaiyan is known to refer to KT Rajasingham as.

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Kingsly said:

If this was planned and executed by Rajasingham one must appreciate the fact that he deserves some credit for the 'crime engineering' skill, in which case he gets qualified to be a real political leader in terms of the Sri Lankan political standards today. He has deceit, he has no remorse, he has impunity, he can stoop to any level and what is more, he can get away with these things. With these qualities he cannot fit into anything but a Sri Lankan politician of higher rank. Somehow I doubt the insinuation. People are improvising more than what they were capable of a few years back.

2007-11-21 16:03:13

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