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SATANA
Tabloid
June 1998

EDITORIAL

SORDID STORY OF BRIG. MUNASINGHE

The sweet prot=E9g=E9 of state Minister of Defence Anuruddha Ratwatte
Brig. Munasinghe - who announces war news on TV as if he has done
it all himself - is accused of cheating food money from soldiers
on the battlefront; the investigative report of this affair by the
Military Police is given on the center pages of this issue.=20

When this report came out the President had imposed a censorship on
war news so that prevented it coming out in other papers; however, we
are able to publish this report today simply because we do not care
about the consequences that will definitely come after this newspaper
hits the stands. We also believe that such hideous corruption of
brigadiers and other officers of the army cannot be called war news.=20

We also take this opportunity to accuse Brig. Munasinghe of being one
of those fortunate officers who never went to the war front but spent
his time peacefully reading out achievements of others simply because
of his close association with corrupt politicians. His fellow rankers
call him the Map Soldier who's job it is to study maps and draw up war
tactics which usually send innocent soldiers to their deaths.

According to the above report, state minister Jeewan Kumaratunge, News
Director Ariya Rubasinghe and some other VIPs are involved in this food
swindle, the total of which can feed a battalion for months. It is not
only the duty of the Chandrika govt, but also the Opposition to expose
these commission ravens and punish them fittingly. Wasting time on
finding how this report came to *us* is not the issue.

In order to protect true soldier sons of ours and to give them all
necessary encouragement, we must first of all expose these dirty
Commission scoundrels. "Satana" will watch with keen interest the
action taken by the President and the Opposition leader in this
regard.


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BRIG. MUNASINGHE IS A BIG CROOK

According to a highly classified Military Police Inquiry report
received by us, army spokesman Brig. Munasingha, whose face is
constantly seen on Sri Lankan TV, has made millions through
cheating on food supplied to the soldiers in the war front.

All we can say is, it will be far better for Brig. Munasinghe to
cut his own belly and die because the crime he has committed by
taking food off the mouths of our soldiers is unpardonable. Every
day he spell out to the world the War Glories of the govt, but he
is like the prawn who prances unaware of a head full of muck.

It is also said that all he knows is to battle with maps. Meanwhile
some Opposition Members of Parliament who had this information were
threatened with death by Brig. Munasinghe if they reveal it.

VIRAKESARI
Tuesday June 30, 1998.

Page 1/2-c.
SIVAPALAN SWORN IN AS MAYOR OF JAFFNA
He took oaths yesterday at 1.30 pm in the presence of TULF Deputy leader
Ananda Sangari. Out of the 23 members who should take oaths, only 16 were
present.

Page 1/2-c.
PROCESSION AGAINST GOVT DECISION TO CUT RELIEF MEASURES
A procession condemning the action of the govt to cut relief measures for
the displaced persons in the North, took place in Jaffna Yesterday. This was
organized by the PLOT, TELO and EPRLF.

EDITORIAL
REQUEST OF MPS
Due to the ongoing war and the prolonged ethnic issue, the country is facing
massive economic strangulation, while our youth are caught in the web of war
and dying. At the same time 21 MPs who belong to the govt and opposition
parties have jointly requested the govt and the LTTE to stop the war
immediately. They have made this plea on behalf of the children in this
country at a seminar held at the Luxury Kandalama Hotel in Dambulla.
The politicians of this country use the Ethnic issue to capture power and
retain same. The money that should actually be spent for the welfare of the
nation, is being diverted to buy armaments, which is an extremely sore
point. So under these circumstances, the above request of the MPs to avoid
the war, is welcome. However, it is also equally important to put such
observations in to action, without letting it remain mere words as is
always the case.

DIVAINA

Tuesday June 30, 1998

Page 9/6-c.
TO SOLVE UNEMPLOYMENT PROBLEM -
THE PRESIDENT MUST BE UNEMPLOYED FIRST

Leader of the opposition Ranil Wickramasinghe stated at
Palinda on the 27th instant that today this govt has
condemned all people in Sri Lanka as they are unable to
get medicine in a hospital while the govt is busy making
use of the war to build up images. The President cannot
solve any problem in the country and in order to solve
the unemployment problem in the country that is tormenting
our youth, the President must first of all be made
unemployed.

Comment
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The last paper belongs in the Island group, the one that
represented the singular alliance between the Wijewardene
and the Ratwatte clans. It chose to trivialise the Ratwatte
clan's President Chandrika Kumaratunga.

Upali Wijewardene, who started the Island newspaper,
vanished in a flight of his executive jet following
threats in paliament by the then PM Premadasa.

His wife Lakmini Ratwatte remarried into the Welgama
family. In that social come-down of the marriage, her
father Seevali Ratwatte, now majodromo of the Island
group, accepted Navaloka Mudalali as fellow father-in-
law. Seevali Ratwatte, Lakmini's father would be thankful
for any possible cash injection from the former retainers
of the Wijewardene clan to sustain the Island group which
he had laid his hands on and incompetently run.

Navaloka Mudalali belongs among ex-Wijewardene retainers
and is also the ex-driver of the Food Department who
developed into Premadasa's key businessman after the
slaying of Chandrika's father for which Navaloka Mudalali
provided the handgun bullets (Justice A.C.Alles' book.)

Ranil Wickremasinghe of the Wijewardene clan seems to
applaud the depletion of both the country's resources
and the stock of President through the military
engagement with the LTTE of Defence Chief Anuruddha
Ratwatte.

It is a sign of the times that Seevali Ratwatte's
newspaper served as the platform for the expression
of contempt towards the Ratwatte clan's President of
Sri Lanka and the Deputy Defence Minister.

The Wijewardenas seem to have astutely manouvered
the Ratwattes and the country into disaster after the=20
British left the colony. Strange events that followed
independence include the circumstances of demise of
former PMs Dudley Senanayake and S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike,
both representing clans important in the island's
politics.

When the British arrived in the eary 19th Century,
Mohandiram Wijewardene was selling timber floated
down the river towards the old, sailing-ship
Northern port in Colombo.


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