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Sri Lankan general 'behind attacks'

by Sanjay Jha | July 9, 2008 at 12:06 am | 72 views | add comment

Sri Lanka's top army officer has been accused of instigating attacks on reporter in the Island Country. Opposition leaders have accused Gen Sarath Fonseka of making plans of attacks behind reporters. But army spokesman Brig Udaya Nanayakkara denied the allegation and said that the MP had nothing to substantiate his allegations.

Sri Lanka's main opposition party has accused the country's most senior army officer of being behind violent attacks on reporters.
Opposition MP Joseph Michael Perera told parliament that the attacks were carried out by a "special team" controlled by Lt Gen Sarath Fonseka.
Mr Perera said the government should arrest the offenders and "immediately bring them to justice".
The army has denied that it is any way involved in attacks on journalists.
'Dangerous'
"We are told by those in the army itself that journalists are abducted and subjected to grievous injury by none other than a special unit under the army commander," Mr Perera, a former parliamentary speaker, said.
The World Association of Newspapers recently ranked Sri Lanka as the third most dangerous country in the world for media workers in 2007.