Unidentified thugs set fire to Lankaenews office
Unidentified thugs set fire to Lankaenews office
An unidentified group of thugs has broken the locks at the Lankaenews office in Daham Mawatha, Malabe, and set fire to all the files, computers and other equipments. The group has thereafter set fire to the office building.
The incident has occurred about 2am on Monday. When the neighbors arrived and tried to extinguish the fire, the whole office has been burnt. Moments before the incident, an 
unidentified person who called its news editor Bennet Rupasignhe has threatened him with death.
When contacted, Thalangama police told LankaNewsWeb that so far it has received no complaint over the attack. The owner of the house is thought to be living in the United States and therefore nobody is there to lodge a complaint, a police officer at duty said.
The Lankaenews that heavily criticized the president, Sri Lanka government and its corruption has come under constant threats and intimidation in recent months. Freelance journalist Prageeth Ekneligoda who worked for the website was abducted a year ago and he is still missing. Its editor Sandaruvan Senadheera had to leave the country due to threats to his life. The office which was in Rajagiriya, Colombo, was shifted to Malabe as a result of continuous government threats.
A journalist who informed LankaNewsWeb on the attack said that the recent revelations about the President’s trip to the USA and his illness and the revelation about the murders of two gang leaders “Kata Roshan” and “Mocha” who were close associates of Defence Ministry’s monitoring MP Duminda Silva might be the immediate reasons for the attack.
February 2nd, 2011 at 7:36 am
Lankaenews as far as I know publish their own views and opinions and are unable to source their information. Therefore, they are not a credible website. But the Government of Sri Lanka has given people the freedom of speech, and expression, hence these site still are up and running. Those who oppose my comment and go live in a country like Cuba, China, or Venezuela for a while and they will understand what freedom really is. Blaming the Sri Lankan government and the country leader is a sad situation when people can now live in this country with no fear of a bomb explosion or any major national threat. I also have noticed that MP R. Duminda Silva’s name comes up with any situation. He got the most preferential votes in the last general election in Colombo isn’t it? Sad how they try to mess up his image. But this is the way some jobless people in this country function. Stop wasting your time updating bogus news online! If you have so much time in your hands, look for a job online instead!