{"id":118736,"date":"2014-01-23T02:01:46","date_gmt":"2014-01-22T20:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=118736"},"modified":"2014-01-30T01:19:34","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T19:49:34","slug":"mangala-samaraweera-is-openly-homosexual-us-embassy-colombo-informed-state-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/mangala-samaraweera-is-openly-homosexual-us-embassy-colombo-informed-state-department\/","title":{"rendered":"WikiLeaks: Mangala Samaraweera Is Openly Homosexual – US Embassy Colombo Informed State Department"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Mangala Saraweera,\u00a047, is a PA\/SLFP MP from Matara District in the south. First elected to Parliament in 1989, he was previously the main SLFP organizer for Matara, where his father also served as MP. He was Minister of Posts and Telecommunications in the previous PA government. Samaraweera is another PA hard-liner, who is said to advise the President to hit out at Prime Minister Wickremesinghe and the UNP government whenever possible. He is also one of the major proponents of an alliance between the PA and JVP. A former academic, Samaraweera attended the University of London and is openly homosexual. He is Sinhalese Buddhist.” \u00a0the US Embassy Colombo<\/span><\/a> informed Washington.<\/p>\n

\"Mangala<\/a>

Mangala and the Cabinet Minister of State Management Reforms, Navin Dissanayake \/ File photo<\/p><\/div>\n

On November 18, 2003, sending\u00a0brief biographical sketches of key advisers to then Sri Lankan President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga<\/span><\/a>, in a confidential cable to US state department the\u00a0US\u00a0Ambassador to\u00a0Colombo\u00a0Jeffrey J. Lunstead<\/a><\/span>\u00a0described Mangala Samaraweera<\/span><\/a> as a none family member advisor. According to the US ambassador there were only four none family party advisors to the President including\u00a0Lakshman Kadirgamar, Sarath Amunugama and Kingsley Wickramaratne.<\/p>\n

On April 15, 2004, Ambassador \u00a0Jeffrey J. Lunstead\u00a0wrote;\u00a0As reported Reftel, Sri Lanka’s new cabinet was sworn in on April 10. (FYI. President Kumaratunga retained control of the defense and internal security portfolios — see Reftels. Due to a dispute with President Kumaratunga, the radical Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, ‘JVP,’ has not yet assumed the handful of ministerial positions it was promised before the election.”<\/p>\n

Under the subheading ‘Biographic data on key ministers’ the ambassador wrote;\u00a0“Mangala Saraweera,\u00a047, is a PA\/SLFP MP from Matara District in the south. First elected to Parliament in 1989, he was previously the main SLFP organizer for Matara, where his father also served as MP. He was Minister of Posts and Telecommunications in the previous PA government. Samaraweera is another PA hard-liner, who is said to advise the President to hit out at Prime Minister Wickremesinghe and the UNP government whenever possible. He is also one of the major proponents of an alliance between the PA and JVP. A former academic, Samaraweera attended the University of London and is openly homosexual. He is Sinhalese Buddhist.”<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Colombo Telegraph<\/a><\/span>\u00a0found the related leaked cables from the\u00a0WikiLeaks<\/a><\/span>\u00a0database and the \u201cConfidential\u201d \u00a0cables are signed by the US Ambassador to\u00a0Colombo\u00a0Jeffrey J. Lunstead.<\/p>\n

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