Move to create rift between judiciary and legislature:

Two foreign powers behind destabilization campaign

*In liaison with Lankan NGO operatives

*Sinister programme to cause civil unrest in country

CHAMIKARA WEERASINGHE

The current wave of destabilization of the Courts system and the move to create a rift between the judiciary and the legislature, is being engineered by two foreign powers using their missions in Colombo, the Daily News reliably learns.

The two foreign powers have been in direct liaison with Sri Lankan NGO operatives and so-called civil society activists, funding and otherwise assisting their destabilization campaign.

According to our sources, one well-known NGO personality, who is also a lawyer at the forefront of the campaign to promote the current destabilization effort through Hulftsdorp, at one time had booked scores of rooms in city hotels, to accommodate those participating in the sinister campaign.

Meanwhile, Activists of Certain Non Governmental Organizations based in Sri Lanka and abroad and pro-LTTE Tamil Diaspora fronts, in a more collaborative footing, have unleashed a sinister programme to cause all-out civil unrest in the country, even as the impeachment debate on Chief Justice Dr Shirani Bandaranayaka takes place in Parliament.

These groups have reportedly unleashed their operations through local link-persons, to fan the flames of public agitation to achieve their objective. They are engaged in an exercise to destabilize the country by creating a rift between the judiciary and the legislature over the situation surrounding the impeachment of Chief Justice Dr Bandaranayaka, sources at the External Affairs Ministry said.

According to ministry sources, they have launched many disinformation campaigns against the government across the globe, especially in the Western world, to discredit Sri Lanka over the issue of impeachment.

“They are using their media networks for this purpose. External Affairs Ministry sources said two foreign countries are also behind this conspiracy,” sources added. The countries will be named at the appropriate time, they said.