Defence authorities nail canard
Defence Authorities yesterday flatly rejected contents of concocted
stories on a website called Sri Lanka Guardian tarnishing the reputation
of senior officers who gave leadership to the final battle against Tiger
terrorists.
A release from the Media Centre for National Security states:
“It has been brought to the notice of the defence authorities that
certain pro-LTTE and anti-Security Forces websites continue to burn the
midnight oil by way of publishing various concocted stories, replete
with hypotheses and utterly false and fabricated stories.”
“The latest were a series of purposely planted such stories and
e-mails being published in a websited called Sri Lanka Guardian in which
a new version to the consequences that led to Prabhakaran’s death has
been concocted, involving the reputation of senior officers who gave
leadership to the final battles against Tiger terrorists in the Vanni
and Military Intelligence.”
“Similarly, one more orchestrated attempt by some interested elements
has been launched on the same issue earlier appeared in the Sri Lanka
Guardian website referring to another Major General and some undisclosed
defence sources in the Ministry of Defence. Simultaneously, anti Sri
Lanka elements with the sinister motive of trying to take the Security
Forces to a War Crime tribunal and tarnishing the image, appear to be
doing overtime resorting to reinvigorated “e-mail” propaganda gimmicks.”
Defence authorities flatly reject contents of these fabricated
stories and are planning prosecution against those publishers in
accordance with legal provisions that have already been published.
Attempts of this mean nature are deliberately pursued by
politically-motivated people or by such organizations in order to bring
the Sri Lankan Security Forces into ridicule with the ulterior motive of
reaching the ‘international community’. Defence authorities once again
condemn such attempts and urge interested parties not to engage in
willful insult and humiliation to the heroic forces in the country.” |