{"id":66745,"date":"2012-12-28T00:03:55","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T00:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=66745"},"modified":"2013-01-02T17:36:47","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T17:36:47","slug":"wikileaks-norwegians-imported-radio-equipment-for-the-ltte-at-the-specific-request-of-the-gosl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wikileaks-norwegians-imported-radio-equipment-for-the-ltte-at-the-specific-request-of-the-gosl\/","title":{"rendered":"WikiLeaks: Norwegians Imported Radio Equipment For The LTTE At The Specific Request Of The GOSL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/\">Colombo Telegraph<\/a><\/span> &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A Leaked &#8216;Confidential&#8217; US diplomatic cable, dated January 17, 2003, updated the Secretary of State regarding the anti-peace process tirades and Sri Lanka&#8217;s \u2018Sinhalese extremists\u2019 shows that the\u00a0controversial &#8216;importing\u00a0radio\u00a0equipment&#8217; by the Norwegian Embassy\u00a0has done at the specific request of the government&#8217;s Peace Secretariat. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_66752\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wikileaks-norwegians-imported-radio-equipment-for-the-ltte-at-the-specific-request-of-the-gosl\/norway_ltte_gosl\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-66752\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-66752\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-66752\" title=\"norway_ltte_gosl\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/norway_ltte_gosl-300x256.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/norway_ltte_gosl-300x256.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/norway_ltte_gosl.jpg 745w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-66752\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jon Westborg and Bernard Goonetilleke,Head GSL Peace Secretariat<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/colombotelegraph.com\/\">Colombo Telegraph<\/a><\/span>\u00a0found the related leaked cable from the\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/category\/wikileaks\/\">WikiLeaks<\/a><\/span>\u00a0database. The cable is\u00a0classified\u00a0by the US\u00a0Deputy Chief of Mission\u00a0Lewis Amselem and signed by\u00a0the US Ambassador to Colombo E. Ashley Wills.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the issues that has them up in arms is Norwegian Ambassador Jon Westborg, who they want kicked out of the country. They charge that Westborg illegally allowed the Norwegian Embassy to import radio equipment for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in a diplomatic consignment. (Note: In fact, the Norwegian Embassy did this only at the specific request of the government&#8217;s Peace Secretariat. This issue has prompted a recent exchange of letters among the GSL, President <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Chandrika+Kumaratunga&amp;x=6&amp;y=2\">Kumaratunga<\/a><\/span>, and the GoN &#8212; see Reftels\u201d the\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=US+Embassy+Colombo&amp;x=5&amp;y=6\">US Embassy Colombo<\/a><\/span>\u00a0informed Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Read the relevant part of the cable below;<\/p>\n<pre>C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 03 COLOMBO 000101 \r\n\r\nSIPDIS \r\n\r\nDEPARTMENT FOR SA, SA\/INS; NSC FOR E. MILLARD \r\n\r\nE.O. 12958:  DECL: 01\/17\/13\r\nTAGS: PGOV PTER SOCI CE NO LTTE\r\n\r\nRefs:  Colombo 90, and previous \r\n\r\n(U) Classified by Lewis Amselem, Deputy Chief of\r\nMission.  Reasons 1.5 (b,d).<\/pre>\n<p>(SBU) In addition to their usual anti-peace process tirades, Sri Lanka&#8217;s Sinhalese extremists have been raising a ruckus lately on five peace-related issues. (Note: FYI. About 75 percent of Sri Lankans belong to the Sinhalese ethnic group, which is mostly Buddhist. Sinhalese extremist groups maintain the support of somewhere over 10 percent of the total body politic.) One of the issues that has them up in arms is Norwegian Ambassador Jon Westborg, who they want kicked out of the country. They charge that Westborg illegally allowed the Norwegian Embassy to import radio equipment for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in a diplomatic consignment. (Note: In fact, the Norwegian Embassy did this only at the specific request of the government&#8217;s Peace Secretariat. This issue has prompted a recent exchange of letters among the GSL, President Kumaratunga, and the GoN &#8212; see Reftels. End Note.)<\/p>\n<p>WILLS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":66752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2187,1,2375,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-most-popular","category-news","category-stories","category-wikileaks"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>WikiLeaks: Norwegians Imported Radio Equipment For The LTTE At The Specific Request Of The GOSL - Colombo Telegraph<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wikileaks-norwegians-imported-radio-equipment-for-the-ltte-at-the-specific-request-of-the-gosl\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"WikiLeaks: Norwegians Imported Radio Equipment For The LTTE At The Specific Request Of The GOSL - 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