Sri Lanka Guardian too is a victim of government blockade.

Editorial Statement

(January 26, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Leading Sri Lankan e-media’s publishing news without fear of intimidation from the goons associated with the President’s brother and his Defense Secretary Gotabaya Rajapakse have been blocked for the readers in Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka Guardian, Infolanka and Lanka-e-News are the victims of the covert actions of the Intelligence Services of Sri Lanka. With the blockade imposed all of a sudden last night, the Sri Lankans are starved of reading wide range of news that are not reported in the print media in Sri Lanka.

All these websites have contributed heavily to uphold media freedom in Sri Lanka. The government decision to block the Infolanka website comes as a shock, as Infolanka only facilitates reproduction of news and views published in other websites. Infolanka website had earned the reputation for publishing news and views of all varieties to reflect fair coverage of what is reported worldwide about Sri Lanka.

The Lanka e news responding to the heavy-handed behaviour of the government stated in its news that ‘two journalists from www.lankaenews.com have complained to the election commissioner that government owned Sri Lanka Telecom has blocked their server and they are unable to upload any news’. As a result of the intervention, the Lanka-e-news is unable to upload any news to their website.

This is not the first time President Mahinda Rajapakse’s ‘democratic dictatorship’ has subjugated the free e-media. Sri Lanka Guardian faced the wrath of the government’s heavy handed behaviour to the extent of its very survival was threatened when the state Intelligence Service and state backed Tamil paramilitary group were head hunting its editor and the operatives control its publication.