Karuna's & Government's involvement in abductions revealed by the UNP...

UNP MP Lakshman Seneviratne told the parliament today that a DIG in the police is involved with the murders, abductions and ransom takings that take place in Colombo.

He said that DIG 'Rohan Abeywardena' and a Squadron Leader of Air force Nishantha Gajanayake are closely working with the Karuna Fraction to carry out the murders and abductions. The MP said that 'Nishantha Gajanayake' is currently residing in the 'Holiday Inn hotel' and that his bills are being paid by a businessmen called 'Gajadeera' who is a brother of a Minister. The UNP MP went on to say that Nishantha Gajanayake is lodging in room number 706 in the hotel.

Seneviratne pointed out that the murdered two Sri Lanka Red Cross Society Volunteers were also lodging at the Holiday Inn hotel while they were in Colombo.

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Victory has been revealed...

A weekend newspaper reports that former chairman of the air port and air port services Tiran Allas who arrested by the TID on the 30th of April has revealed all detains pertaining to the financial deals that he had with the LTTE on the request of president Mahinda Rajapakse.

He has also said that he became the coordinator for the North and East for the presidential campaign on the request made by then Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse. He has stated these details when the TID offices arrested him before he was being arrested at the Nawaloka Hospital.

Tiran Allas was arrested on charges of granting funds for a member of the LTTE intelligence unit called Emil Kanthan.

The statement made by Allas states that he was not informed by the security forces that Emil Kanthan was a LTTE intelligence unit member when the discussions were going on and that current presidential advisor Basil Rajapakse, presidential secretary Lalith Weeratunga and secretary of the treasury P.B. Jayasundara were also present at the discussions. Allas has also said that Basil Rajapakse held several further rounds of talks with Emil Kanthan.

TIran Allas has told the offices that he has handed over a detailed statement through an affidavit and that he could hand over another, once he is discharged from hospital.

Tiran Allas who is a witness of the Rajapakse � LTTE deal to boycott the presidential election in the North and East remained tight lipped for a long time but broke the shackles on the 30th.

Earlier former minister Sripathi Suriarachchi disclosed that the government handed over 200 million rupees to the LTTE before the election and 800 million rupees after the election.

Meanwhile LeN learns through reliable sources that DIG of the CID D.W. Pratahapasinghe had phone Allas the day before he was arrested and asked him to make a statement excluding the names of Basil and Mahinda Rajapakse from the LTTE deal, which was refused by Tiran Allas.

An Emeritus Professor of Computer Science, V.K. Samaranayake passes away...

A well known Emeritus Professor of Computer Science and the founder of CINTEC, V.K. Samaranayake has passed away on the night of 6th June 2007 in Stockholm, Sweden.

Prof. V.K. Samaranayake, was the founder Director, University of Colombo School of Computing (UCSC) of the University of Colombo, and Chairman of Information and Communication Technology Agency (ICTA) of Sri Lanka,

Late Prof. V.K. Samaranayake was a Fellow of the Harvard Information Infrastructure Project and the National Center for Digital Government of the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He is also a Post Graduate holder of the University of Kalaniya.

In the field of IT he has pioneered work on IT Policy, Legal Infrastructure, EDI/E-Commerce, Security, Internet Technology, Computer Awareness and IT Education. He was actively involved in the formulation of the ISO 10646 standard for Sinhalese Characters and in the development of multilingual web sites. He has also been instrumental in helping to apply computers in many areas of governance, including in national elections. He also actively extended his contribution in implementing the ‘Nanasala’ concept in to a reality.

The Government of Sri Lanka has honoured Prof. Samaranayake for his contribution towards IT by the award of Vidya Prasadini in 1997 and the national honour Vidya Jyothi in 1998. The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has presented its President's Award for International Cooperation to Prof. Samaranayake in 1996 in recognition of his contribution.

His remains will be brought to Sri Lanka and funeral arrangements will take place in Colombo.

Telecom deal sealed. Trade unions are not bothered even if it is sold to Prabakaran...

Another fraud has been successfully completed by the Brother's Company last week. After shutting down Wimal Weerawansha's mouth by threatening him about revealing his old connections regarding some projects, The Rajapaksha trio has succeeded in getting the advantage of SLT.

Chairman of the Telecommunications Officers Union Rohan Nishanka told the media in Colombo this evening that the deal to sell 25.3% shares of Sri Lanka Telecom to Maxis Company in Malaysia has already been completed over the past week.

This media briefing was organized by the SLT trade unions association.

Nishanka said that there is no issue in selling the shares to Maxis or even Prabakaran but all what they want is for the government to include 10 conditions of theirs into the agreement which the government plans to sign with the company. He said if those conditions are not met, they would launch a strong trade union action.

A journalist questioned the chairman how could he talk about an agreement if the deal has already being closed. Then Nishanka said he could say with responsibility that the deal has already been closed, but he said the relevant officials should furnish their requests in the agreement that is yet to be signed.

Then the journalists questioned whether the deal was finalized with the Maxis company?

When LeN questioned whether the 10 million dollar comis that was supposed to be a part of the deal also realized, Nishanka said getting a comis is a normal thing and if such a sum was obtained from the deal the money would ultimately come to the country. Heavily criticizing the Japanese NTT company Nishanka said they welcome any company other than NTT in to the administration.

As revealed by the chairman of the Telecommunications Officers Union the deal has been completed while the parliamentary debate on the matter is being fixed for the 8th of this month.