{"id":4119,"date":"2012-02-03T01:51:40","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T01:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/colombotelegraph.com\/?p=4119"},"modified":"2019-11-04T18:46:49","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T13:16:49","slug":"wikileaks-looked-like-epdp-and-sl-navy-burnt-the-uthayan-basil-to-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wikileaks-looked-like-epdp-and-sl-navy-burnt-the-uthayan-basil-to-us\/","title":{"rendered":"WikiLeaks:Looked Like EPDP And SL Navy Burnt The Uthayan \u2013 Basil To US"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Colombo Telegraph<\/a><\/span> –<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cHe added that it ‘looked like’ EPDP cadres, along with the SLN, had perpetrated the mid-August burning of the pro-LTTE Uthayan newspaper office in Jaffna,\u201d the US Embassy Colombo informed Washington.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Douglas and Basil<\/p><\/div>\n

The Colombo Telegraph found the related leaked cable from the WikiLeaks database. The cable is classified as \u201cCONFIDENTIAL\u201d and recounts details of a meeting US Ambassador to Colombo has had with President\u2019s advisor and his brother Basil Rajapaksa<\/a><\/span> on October 04, 2006. The cable is written by the US Ambassador to Colombo, Robert O. Blake.<\/p>\n

Ambassador Blake wrote “\u2018We have had trouble with other Tamil groups,\u2019 Rajapaksa explained, naming Douglas Devananda’s Eelam People’s Democratic Party (EPDP) and the Karuna Faction who \u2018might have weapons.\u2019 Rajapaksa said that the Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) has requested Devananda and the Tamil Mukkal Vidutalai Pulikal (TMVP – Tamil People’s Liberation Tigers, a.k.a. the Karuna faction) to control their members and in the case of the TMVP to \u2018go back to Batticaloa.\u2019 \u2018We have clearly instructed Douglas and Karuna that they are personally responsible for the actions of their members.\u2019 He added that it \u2018looked like\u2019 EPDP cadres, along with the SLN, had perpetrated the mid-August burning of the pro-LTTE Uthayan newspaper office in Jaffna.<\/p>\n

Under the subheading “Winning Hearts and Minds in Jaffna” the ambassador wrote \u201cRajapaksa spoke proudly of the GSL’s efforts to improve the humanitarian situation in Jaffna, where fighting since August 11 has cut off the supply line by land. He said that in Jaffna \u2018the Tamils feel we are trying to look after them by sending supplies. They know that the LTTE refused to allow the ICRC supply chain but that we have never stopped supplying food despite the cost.\u2019”<\/p>\n

Below we give the relevant part of the leaked cable;<\/p>\n

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