{"id":105705,"date":"2013-09-16T02:22:43","date_gmt":"2013-09-15T20:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=105705"},"modified":"2020-06-21T13:12:20","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T07:42:20","slug":"wikileaks-gota-uses-my-name-to-threatening-people-upset-karuna-on-gotas-prostitute-editor-remark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wikileaks-gota-uses-my-name-to-threatening-people-upset-karuna-on-gotas-prostitute-editor-remark\/","title":{"rendered":"WikiLeaks: &#8216;Gota Uses My Name To Threatening people&#8217; &#8211; Upset Karuna On Gota&#8217;s &#8216;Prostitute&#8217; Editor Remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Although the GSL has consistently denied supporting Karuna, on April 16 the Associated Press&#8217; South Asia Bureau Chief Matthew Rosenberg (strictly protect) allowed PolOff to listen to tapes of his interview with Gotabaya. The Defense Secretary was effusive in his praise for Karuna and the benefits the GSL has obtained from Karuna&#8217;s rise.&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>the US Embassy Colombo informed Washington.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_105723\" style=\"width: 354px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wikileaks-gota-uses-my-name-to-threatening-people-upset-karuna-on-gotas-prostitute-editor-remark\/gotakaruna-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-105723\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-105723\" class=\"size-full wp-image-105723\" title=\"Gota&amp;Karuna\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/GotaKaruna.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"344\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/GotaKaruna.jpg 344w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/GotaKaruna-300x228.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 344px) 100vw, 344px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-105723\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gota and Karuna<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/\">Colombo Telegraph<\/a><\/span>\u00a0found the related leaked cable from the\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/category\/wikileaks\/\">WikiLeaks<\/a><\/span>\u00a0database. The cable is classified as \u201cSECRET\u201d and discuses Sri Lanka\u2019s paramilitary operations. The cable was written by the Ambassador\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Robert+O.+Blake&amp;x=6&amp;y=3\">Robert O. Blake<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>on\u00a0May 18, 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Also, on April 16, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Gotabaya+Rajapaksa&amp;x=11&amp;y=7\">Gotabaya<\/a><\/span> personally telephoned editor of the Daily Mirror <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Champika+Liyanarachchi&amp;x=11&amp;y=8\">Champika Liyanarachchi<\/a><\/span> and told her that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Karuna+Amman&amp;x=14&amp;y=5\">Karuna<\/a><\/span> was so upset by an article about the suffering of IDPs in the East that he thought Karuna would kill both her and the article&#8217;s author, referring to her as a &#8220;prostitute&#8221; (ref A). Liyanarachchi called Karuna, who assured her that he would not kill her and expressed displeasure that Gothabaya was using his name while threatening people.<\/p>\n<p>Read the relevant part of the cable below;<\/p>\n<pre>S E C R E T SECTION 01 OF 06 COLOMBO 000728 \r\n\r\nSIPDIS \r\n\r\nSIPDIS \r\n\r\nDEPARTMENT FOR SCA\/INS\r\nMCC FOR S GROFF, D TETER, D NASSIRY AND E BURKE \r\n\r\nE.O. 12958: DECL: 05\/18\/2017\r\nTAGS: PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MOPS CE\r\nSUBJECT: SRI LANKA: GSL COMPLICITY IN PARAMILITARY\r\nFACTIONS' HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES \r\n\r\nREF: A. COLOMBO 591\r\n     \u00b6B. COLOMBO 561\r\n     \u00b6C. COLOMBO 463\r\n     \u00b6D. COLOMBO 460\r\n     \u00b6E. 2006 COLOMBO 2056\r\n     \u00b6F. 2006 COLOMBO 1896\r\n     \u00b6G. 2005 COLOMBO 2157\r\n     \u00b6H. 2004 COLOMBO 1219 \r\n\r\nClassified By: Ambassador Robert O. Blake, Jr., for reasons 1.4(b, d) \r\n\r\n\u00b61.  (S) SUMMARY:  Allegations of government complicity in\r\ncrimes committed by organized paramilitary groups have\r\nmounted in the last year.  Paramilitaries such as the\r\nLiberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)-breakaway Karuna\r\ngroup and Eelam People's Democratic Party (EPDP) have helped\r\nthe Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) to fight the LTTE, to\r\nkidnap suspected LTTE collaborators, and to give the GSL a\r\nmeasure of deniability.  The GSL, which denies any links to\r\nparamilitary groups, has recently touted its efforts to\r\nimprove its human rights record, such as the re-publication\r\nof procedures on arrests and detentions and the appointment\r\nof a \"One-Man Commission\" to investigate reported\r\ndisappearances (ref C).  However, these efforts so far appear\r\naimed more at improving Sri Lanka's image abroad and have yet\r\nto produce concrete improvements in the human rights\r\nsituation.  Outside the capital, the incidence of human\r\nrights abuses has continued, including extrajudicial\r\nkillings, abductions, child trafficking, extortion, and\r\nprostitution.  President Rajapaksa's government, strapped for\r\ncash, has cut direct payments to paramilitaries initiated by\r\nformer President Kumaratunga and instead turns a blind eye to\r\nextortion and kidnapping for ransom by EPDP and Karuna.\r\nWhile many of the charges against the government have been\r\nmade in public fora, a growing number of trusted Embassy\r\ncontacts, often at personal risk, have described in detail\r\nthe extent of the GSL's involvement with paramilitary groups.\r\n END SUMMARY.<\/pre>\n<pre>\u00b612.  (S) Although the GSL has consistently denied supporting\r\nKaruna, on April 16 the Associated Press' South Asia Bureau\r\nChief Matthew Rosenberg (strictly protect) allowed PolOff to\r\nlisten to tapes of his interview with Gothabaya. The Defense\r\nSecretary was effusive in his praise for Karuna and the \r\n\r\nSIPDIS\r\nbenefits the GSL has obtained from Karuna's rise.  Also, on\r\nApril 16, Gothabaya personally telephoned editor of the Daily\r\nMirror Champika Liyanarachchi and told her that Karuna was so\r\nupset by an article about the suffering of IDPs in the East\r\nthat he thought Karuna would kill both her and the article's\r\nauthor, referring to her as a \"prostitute\" (ref A).\r\nLiyanarachchi called Karuna, who assured her that he would\r\nnot kill her and expressed displeasure that Gothabaya was\r\nusing his name while threatening people. \r\n\r\nCOLOMBO 00000728  004 OF 006<\/pre>\n<pre>BLAKE<\/pre>\n<pre>Related posts to this cable;<\/pre>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p><strong><a title=\"WkiLeaks: Gota Authorized Paramilitary Operations \u2013 Sri Ranga\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wkileaks-gota-authorized-paramilitary-operations-sri-ranga\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">WkiLeaks: Gota Authorized Paramilitary Operations \u2013 Sri Ranga<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p><strong><a title=\"WikiLealks: Major General Chandrasiri Confided MOD Instruction To US\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wikilealks-major-general-chandrasiri-confided-mod-instruction-to-us\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">WikiLealks: Major General Chandrasiri Confided MOD Instruction To US<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p><strong><a title=\"WikiLeaks: EPDP Sold Jaffna Children: Girls To Prostitution Rings And Boys To Slavery\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wikileaks-epdp-sold-jaffna-children-girls-to-prostitution-rings-and-boys-to-slavery\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">WikiLeaks: EPDP Sold Jaffna Children: Girls To Prostitution Rings And Boys To Slavery<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<pre><strong><a title=\"WikiLeaks: Pararajasingham And Raviraj Killings; Karuna And Douglas Killing MPs \u2013 EPDP Vigneswaran To US\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wikileaks-pararajasingham-and-raviraj-killings-karuna-and-douglas-killing-mps-epdp-vigneswaran-to-us\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">WikiLeaks: Pararajasingham And Raviraj Killings; Karuna And Douglas Killing MPs \u2013 EPDP Vigneswaran To US<\/a><\/strong><\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":105723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2187,1,6969,2375,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-most-popular","category-news","category-popular-stories","category-stories","category-wikileaks"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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