“Rajapakse brothers soon realised the importance of their latest telephone tapping equipments and secretly revolutionised the mission to their political advantage to engage in wider espionage activities and to avenge those whom are threat to them.”
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By Spy Catcher
(January 14, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) New Year began with big bangs in Sri Lanka. The bang started with the celebrations of victory over LTTE when army took control of Killnochchi. Unfortunately the euphoria generated was short-lived when the government was implicated in the attack on the leading independent MTV television station followed by the murder of the most popular media editor Lasantha Wickramatunge.
Facial expressions of the President during his speech on the victory of Kilinochchi and then the capture of Elephant Pass just after the murder of Lasantha are reflection of changing situations in the country. The President was found very buoyant when he delivered his victory speech on the fall of Kilinochchi but he looked very troubled when he addressed the nation after the capture of EP.
It was the Opposition Leader Ranil Wickramasinghe who gave his poignant attack on the government. He slammed that an elite force within the security establishment is behind the attack on the MTV and the murder of Lasantha Wickramatunga. What the Opposition Leader raised was a very serious issue, as within the past three years the Rajapakse brothers who are the ultimate stakeholders in the running of the government has changed the attitude and perception of the security establishment. Within the three years of Mahinda Rajapakse becoming President a powerful elite intelligence service has been established similar to the gestapo (Secret State Police) of the of Nazi Germany. It comes under the overall administration of the President’s brother Gotabaya Rajapakse.
The intended purpose of establishing a gestapo type secret service is to gather intelligence by targeting individuals involved in terror campaign against the government. Large sums from the defense fund have been channeled to run this elite secret intelligence squad. According to well known sources, power equipments including telephone tapping machines have been installed to carryout this task.
Rajapakse brothers soon realised the importance of their latest telephone tapping equipments and secretly revolutionised the mission to their political advantage to engage in wider espionage activities and to avenge those whom are threat to them. Obtaining secure telephone tapping system is not that difficult in the open international market.In the modern day ‘using the telephone network as a communications medium, it can be operated from anywhere in the world with complete confidence. These equipments are said to be software driven and, as one would expect, has a number of security features to protect against unauthorised access and to prevent detection. Basic tapping equipment is said to have up to 100 audio transmitters and can be placed in target areas. These under surveillance, can be tracked as they are moved from place to place. The powerful 5-watt actuator can be linked so that transmitters can be switched on or off remotely. All these transmission links can be encrypted for extra security allowing the video transmitter to be controlled from a remote location. A total of five hard-wired systems can be installed in the target area and accessed via the telephone line. A tape recorder can be linked to the system and fully controlled via the telephone line’.
The project run by the Defence Ministry is larger than a basic telephone tapping system. Under the absolute control of the Defence Ministry, the elite secret service operates in a sophisticated way. In Sri Lanka telephone lines of media men, opposition party members, paramilitary groups and leading civil society activists are tapped for twenty four hours. Within the past three years Rajapakse brothers were able to weaken the opposition parties and the media by engaging in clandestine activities. Information obtained via telephone tapping played an important part. Valuable information are extracted from tapped telephone conversations. Break up of the opposition United National Party, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna and TMVP are said to be part of the successful espionage work of government security services.
The counter terrorism objectives of the government became a tool for the government to manipulate the politics and the civil society in Sri Lanka within the past three years. Even Lasantha Wickramatunga’s murder is said to be part of this espionage operations. Some sources say Lasantha was able to obtain incriminating information about the involvement of the government in the murder of some parliamentarians and also he had obtained some definite evidence to challenge Gothabaya’s defamatory case against the Sunday leader which cased his death. The government too was in preparedness as its surveillance operations helped them to take the timely action to bump the Sunday Leader editor off.
With the murder of Lasantha Wickramatunga and the government’s unwillingness to carryout full investigations into the murders and abductions for the past three years confirms to what extent impunity is prevailing in the country as an established policy.
It is these secret setups of the elitists and the corruption that is embedded in the governance is holding this government together. Even if the government fully eliminate the LTTE monster, it will be difficult for the unscrupulous political power base in Colombo to get rid of the mechanisms brought to fight the very same LTTE evil. Many more Lasantha’s have to sacrifice their lives to save the future of Sri Lanka. - Sri Lanka Guardian
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