Krishnan confirm death threat by Asian Tribune editor

(November, 11, London, Sri Lanka Guardian) S. Krishnan of the Tamil Makkal Viduthalai Puligal (TVMP) in an interview has confirmed the reported news in the Sri Lankan ‘Sunday Leader’ that Asian Tribune editor K T Rajasingam based in Sweden has conspired to kill him if he returned to Sri Lanka.

In the extracts of tapped telephone conversation filed by Suranimala in a weekly investigative column in the ‘Sunday Leader’ (11/11) it has been quoted as K T Rajasingam saying "We must do something there to Krishnan before he comes," (i.e., to Colombo). Krishnan responding to this news said he only came to know K T Rajasingam’s telephone conversation through the Sunday Leader.

However he said he has been already alerted by a government minister that K T Rajasingam has requested some influential contacts within the government to ‘bump him off’. He said he has taken ‘precautions’ knowing very well K T Rajasingam’s motives.

When asked why K T Rajasingam wanting to bump him off, he said: ‘it is all because he is annoyed that I have exposed him for taking payments for his unfulfilled promise to register the TMVP as an official political party in Sri Lanka.’

He further accused Asian Tribune editor K T Rajasingam ‘is a false news creator and is also a dangerous and corrupt media man mother Sri Lanka had ever produced’. ‘His only intention is to spin money in a deceitful way and for this he will even sell his mother’ said Krishnan.

Photo: 75 years old hate editor of Asian Tribune K T Rajasingam living in hiding somewhere in Sweden