Sri Lanka state terrorism in cyber space

(July 13, 2009) The website of the Sri Lanka state-owmed Dinamina newspaper has been reported as an attacking site that tries to install programs that steal private information, use your computer to attack others, or damage your system.

Meanwhile, the authorities have also taken steps to block the Lanka News Web (www.lankanewsweb.com) in Sri Lanka since July 11. This site published both in Sinhala and English post news that thoroughly criticize the government, its allies and the pro-government media. It was started in February and came under criticism from the pro-government lobby since the beginning.

The editors of the website are believed live in UK. Some media persons supected to be the reporters of this website are also under threat.

Sri Lanka state's ICRC phobia

(July 12, 2009) Sri Lanka has asked the ICRC to scale down its operations in the island and the ICRC has in response shut down two of its offices in the Eastern Province and the expatriate staff was withdrawn.

Sri Lanka government and the Sinhala nationalists that support it always suspect of a Western conspiracy against the nation and try to shy away from the humanitarian and other world organizations. The phobia created in the minds of the people help them to get the people maintain them to save the nation from the Western conspirators despite the high cost they have to pay for it.

No one can deny their can be Western influence in these organizations. It is crystal clear that they are run in line with the Western ideology on humanitarianism. That is the very fact that make the Sri lankan authorities tremble before them. On one hand, they are guilty of their conduct in relation to the modern ideology and on the other hand they have no alternates to the Western ideology at least to rationalize or legitimize their conduct.

The true Sinhalese must not be afraid of the West. Instead, they must cultivate more positive ideologies that can show the loopholes in the Western ideologies. On the other hand , why can't our people show more humanity than the West in principles?

Sri Lanka’s failure to provide scientific proof to the death of Tiger leader gives way to blind nationalism

(July 11 2009) Sri Lanka is failing to provide concrete proof of the death of Velupillai Prabakaran, the leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Ealam (LTTE) and Pottu Amman, the intelligence chief of the outfit who are wanted by India to wind up the case regarding the assassination of the former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.

The sources say that Sri Lankan authorities are unable to provide scientific proof for the deaths of these Tiger leaders. Although a corpse said to be of Prabakaran's was displayed as the government declared he was killed on May 18. No corpse of Pottu Amman's was shown so far. 

The situation has triggered claims from the ardent Tamil Ealam nationalists that their elusive leader is still alive and will appear in public in right moment. The admittance of the expatriate leadership of the LTTE has also gone unhindered among these arch nationalists.

In theater-crazy Tamil Nadu, the politicians are manipulating the mystery for their gains where the Chief Minister M Karunanidhi told the State Assembly of a story of a “hero's escape on a horseback with none in the know of his whereabouts” inferred here to mean LTTE leader V Prabhakaran.

“Mr Prabhakaran had been announced as dead in the past too atleast four times in 1984, 1987, 1989 and in 2004. This is the fifth time the announcement has come. Similarly four wars of independence have been fought in Sri Lanka. The fifth war for independence for Eelam (the area of Tamils in Sri Lanka) will commence and our respected Mr Prabhakaran will lead that war,”said Tamil Nadu politician P. Nedumaran, close associate of the elusive LTTE leader who has known him for decades.

“In connection with the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, a formal request for an official confirmation of the deaths of Prabhakaran and Pottu Amman, the chief of the intelligence wing of the LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam), has been made to the government of Sri Lanka,” External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna told parliament, when asked whether India had sought the death certificate of Prabhakaran.

www.dinamina.lk has been reported as an attack site

(July 11, 2009) I received the following message when I attempted to visit Sri Lanka state-owned Dinamina newspaper's website. This is based on average security preferences.

Safe Browsing

Diagnostic page for www.dinamina.lk

What is the current listing status for www.dinamina.lk?

Site is listed as suspicious - visiting this web site may harm your computer.
Part of this site was listed for suspicious activity 3 time(s) over the past 90 days.

What happened when Google visited this site?

Of the 404 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 7 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2009-07-09, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on 2009-07-02.Malicious software is hosted on 2 domain(s), including hit-senders.cn/, eachbul.net/.
This site was hosted on 1 network(s) including AS5087 (LANKA).

Has this site acted as an intermediary resulting in further distribution of malware?

Over the past 90 days, www.dinamina.lk did not appear to function as an intermediary for the infection of any sites.

Has this site hosted malware?

No, this site has not hosted malicious software over the past 90 days.

How did this happen?

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Where are these Sri Lankan crooks? Where is police and Interpol?

(July 10, 2009) Sri Lanka police and the Interpol are yet to hunt several Sri Lankan racketeers who are involved in massive frauds amounting billions of rupees.

One such person is the Chairman of the collapsed Pramuka Bank Rohan Perera (see photo) that slipped out of the country in 2002 before the court could issue a notice ordering him not to leave the country.

on December 19, 2002 the Monetary Board cancelled the license granted to Pramuka Savings and Development Bank.

However, by a Gazette Extraordinary No. 1145/25 on August 17, 2000, the Finance Minister had listed Pramuka Savings and Development Bank amongst a select group of banks for deposit of trust funds by the Public Trustee. This has been repeated in the government Gazette on June 28, 2002.

Another absconding business giant is Sicilia Kothalawala, wife of Lalith Kothalawala who is now remanded under suspicion for cheating billions of rupees of the depositors of the Golden Key Credit Card Company. Sicilia Kothalawala is a director of the company and she is believed living in Singapore.

Ill famous Sakvithi Ranasinghe, a fraudster who swindled a massive amount of money from depositors who were after high yields, silently slipped off the country and still no productivity can be seen in the declared actions to hunt him.

Post-Sarath Nanda Silva period: Sri Lanka's former Treasury Secretary appeals to amend judgement

(July 10, 2009) In Sri Lanka, weeks after the retirement of the former Chief Justice Sarath N. Silva, a series of legal measures are underway to amend the judgements delivered by him.

This time, powerful former Treasury Seecretary Dr. P. B. Jayasundara has filed a motion in the Supreme Court appealing the self-submitted affidavit stating he will not assume any post in the public service be revoked. He cites that the above mentioned affidavit is a impediment for him to proceed with the appeal of the President from him to assume the posts of the Secretary of the Treasury and the Ministry of Finance.

The motion is to be considered by a tri-party bench headed by the Chief Justice Asoka de Silva on July 14.  

Jayasundara had to file the aforesaid affidavit in accordance with the judgement delivered by the Supreme Court regarding the transferring of shares of the Lanka Marine Services Ltd to John Keells Holdings Private Ltd. 

The Supreme Court on July 21, 2008 ruled that the transaction in selling of 90% shares of Lanka Marine Services (Pvt) Ltd to John Keells Holdings Private Ltd and selling of valuable land at Bloemendhal without a valuation and cabinet approval was entered into without lawful authority and is illegal, unlawful and arbitrary.

The judgment delivered by the Chief Justice Sarath N. Silva with Justices N.G.Amartunga and Jagath Balapatabendi agreeing had held that the fundamental right to equality and equal protection of the law of the petitioner Vasudeva Nanayakkara who is Presidential Advisor was infringed.

The Court in his findings noted that in the said transaction, the John Keells Holdings Ltd had worked hand and glove with the former chairman of the PERC P. B. Jayasundera.

Vasudeva Nanayakkara in his public interest litigation cited 31 respondents including K.N. Choksy, former Minister of Finance, Karu Jayasuriya, former Minister of Power and Energy, Ranil Wickremesinghe, former Prime Minister Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, former President of Sri Lanka, Milinda Moragoda, former Minister of Economic Reforms, Sripathy Sooriyarachchi, former Minister, Public Enterprise Reforms, Charitha Ratwatte, former Secretary to the Treasury, P.B. Jayasundera, Secretary to the Treasury and former Chairman, Public Enterprises Reform Commission (PERC), John Keells Holdings Ltd. its present Chairman Susantha Ratnayake and former chairman, V. Lintotawela.

A post-Sarath Nanda Silva scenario in the making?

(July 98m 2009) Two fundamental rights petitions have been filed in the Supreme Court seeking changes to the verdicts delivered under the purview of the former Chief Justice Sarath Nanda Silva


One petition was filed by B. K. Abhaya Padmasiri Balasuriya of Bahirawakanda, Kandy citing that the former Chief Justice Sarath N. Silva, when he was the Chairman of the Court of Appeal, made a district court judge of Kandy to lodge a false complaint against him and he was remanded for 294 days as a result of it.


The petitioner says that the former Chief Justice chased him away without allowing him to make clarifications last year when he attempted to proceed with a fundamental rights petition. He also said that he had to wait until the former Chief Justice retired to resubmit the petition.


In the second incident, the Asia Pacific Golf Course Limited, Access International and the owners Water's Edge residencies have appealed through a motion for reconsidering the verdict in relation to the property citing that they incurred losses due to the Supreme Court verdict to revert them to the state. 


In Sri Lanka’s Judiciary: Politicised Courts, Compromised Rights, the latest policy report from the International Crisis Group, warned that the Sri Lankan judiciary is not working in a fair and impartial way that secures justice and human rights for everyone regardless of ethnicity. This risks undermining the government’s recent military victory over the LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam). A durable national reconciliation process is only possible if human and constitutional rights are fully restored.

“The judiciary has not acted as a check on presidential and legislative power but has instead contributed to the political alienation of Tamils”, says Robert Templer, Crisis Group’s Asia Program Director. “Under the former chief justice, the Supreme Court’s rulings strengthened political hardliners among Sinhala nationalist parties”.

Rather than assuaging conflict, the courts have corroded the rule of law and worsened ethnic tensions. They are neither constraining militarization of Sri Lankan society nor protecting minority rights. Instead, a politicized bench has entrenched favored allies, punished foes and blocked compromises with the Tamil minority. The judiciary’s intermittent interventions on important political questions have limited settlement options for the ethnic conflict.