Mon, Apr 8, 2013, 10:09 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.
Apr 08, Colombo: The Sri Lankan government says that a website is trying to create a rift between a minority Tamil Minister and the government by publishing false information. Director General of the Media Centre for National Security Lakshman Hulugalla said that certain media are publishing false information with the objective of creating clashes between the party of Livestock and Rural Community Development Minister Arumugam Thondaman and the government.
Addressing a press briefing today, Hulugalla said that it is clear that the intention of publishing photographs and news items pertaining to the Defense Secretary in the Lanka E News Web site is to create a dispute between the upcountry Tamil Minister and the government.
The website has reportedly used a photograph appeared in the website of the Ministry of Defence in the year 2008, and has attempted to give the impression that the Defence Secretary made a statement regarding Minister Thondaman.
Mr. Hulugalla further said that the person behind this act is a politician sacked from the Sri Lanka Freedom Party and currently organizing the propaganda campaign of the UNP.