Lanka facing biggest conspiracy - Transport Minister

Lakshmi DE SILVA

Sri Lanka is facing the biggest conspiracy within its political history of the last five decades. Two people who served in the diplomatic service and the UNP and another political personality are involved in it. The conspiracy was to change the Head of Government by assassination or bringing in national and international pressure. The details of the conspiracy would come to light in another four or five days, Transport and Railways Minister Dullas Alahapperuma said at a press conference held at the Mahaweli Centre yesterday.

They would allege war crimes, human rights violations to seek a change of leadership and the GSP+ issue is only the tip of the iceberg of that conspiracy. The conspirators would even attempt to assassinate the Head of the Government the Minister said.

The conspiracy was hatched about five months ago even before the ruthless LTTE terrorists were defeated by the Armed Forces and there were national and international players involved in it. However, the government, the mass media and the public defeated that poisonous conspiracy with the defeat of terrorism but now another conspiracy more dangerous then the first had been hatched but soon its details would be revealed, he said.

Alahapperuma said some LTTE suspects now in detention were waiting to reveal the details of the conspiracies. The MIG 27 issue was also one such attempt to defame the government and it was only a media bubble.

The Channel 4 TV's doctored video clip was also a part of the international conspiracy to show that the Sri Lankan Armed Forces were brutes. Even at a recent debate in Parliament about the Channel 4 affair which the UNP did not attend the Speaker had the courage to say that Channel 4 had attempted to defame our country. When one of the UNP members was asked in the lobby why he did not come for that debate his reply was that there were orders preventing the UNP members attending the debate he said.

Even at this stage we would like to tell Opposition Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe that we could fight on the political platforms and accuse each other but he should not betray the Motherland, he noted.