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London Times

11 June 2009

Srilanka Expelled from 20/20 thanks to our investigations.

Mahinda Samarasinha denies any wrong doing

By Catherene Phillipa

(The Galle man , Devsiri P. Hewavidana reporting from a dosa kade at Trent Bridge )

The result of the Srilanka -Australia 20/20 Match was declared null and void by the ICC last night and Srilanka has been expelled from the tournament . This was the result of a super duper piece of investigative journalism carried out by my self and our Asia Correspondent Jeremy Page. two of the most respected Journalists In the world today


We have seen some aerial photographs taken over the Trent Bridge during the match . Thanks to some independent analysts in the Times basement toilet, I have Clear Evidence that Srilanka players spread 20,000 nails on the pitch to hurt the Pontin's boys .

In an emergency debate in the British Parliament on our findings. The foreign Secretary David Milliband said Half way through the match I phoned the President Rajapaksa who assured me that his team would not use any heavy weapons to defeat the enemy. the Austrians. Yet I saw with my own eyes that their Sergeant Muralitharan using something called Dosa that bamboozled the Australians. Then came the foot soldier, Ajantha Mendis who threw a heavy weapon called googly and eliminated Pontin and Hussey. This is an outrageous inhuman act by Srilanka


The Prime Minister Gordon Brown accused Srilanka of trying to win cricket matches without the help of the West. How dare are they to think they know how to play cricket better than us. My government demands an UN Enquiry in to Ajantha Mendis' bowling

While having a Wade and a plain tea . the Tiger MP Simon Hughes said Srilanka keep telling us that they took only 9 wickets at the match, but my mate
Genocider Subramaniam of the Diaspora have paid me enough to say that I have clear evidence that Srilanka have buried more than 8000 wickets in the ground

At an emergency session in Geneva this morning Navi Pillay, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights expressed her GRAVE CONCERN about the way Srilanka won the match with no respect for international Cricketing traditions.
She had called on Tuesday for an international cricket crimes inquiry, saying she believed that both sides might be guilty of sports crimes .She said that such an inquiry was needed, is even more aberrant. In no circumstances can the end justify the means, pleaded Navi Pillay, at the council meeting.
Sri Lanka, unable to stop the Human Rights Council taking up its case, rushed its own motion to the floor praising their batting and bowling in time to beat a more censorious resolution tabled by Switzerland who has never played cricket .

Srilankan Minister Mahinda Samarasingha vigorously defended the victorious Srilankan team lead by General Sangakara. we have defeated world most ruthless cricket terrorist group on the pitch and you guys and this Bastian Pillay woman wants to investigate us?? You must have a screw loose on your head. Go and get lost all of you including the bloody Times
Backed by China, Russia and other allies who don t know a bat from a ball , Sri Lanka also easily defeated the proposal for a cricket crimes inquiry at a special session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Stil.l we at the Times would never give up. We would make up story after story to discredit Srilanka and satisfy our LTTE brothers. So here goes.

Sri Lanka faced new calls for a war crimes inquiry today after an investigation by The Times revealed that more than 20,000 wickets were eliminated mostly by the first 11 in the latter stages of the match against the Australians s.
The strip of the ground where 11 Australians huddled during the Sri Lankan decisive assault against the Bret Lee and Watson shows clear signs of heavy batting , according to a helicopter inspection of the site by me and a few more biased independent journalists,

The UN satellite images, the most recent of which were taken on 8 June, indicate heavy destruction in and around an area covering few square feet , where Jayasooriya was batting .

The latest blow to the Sri Lankan government's credibility came from Unosat, which provides satellite imagery for the UN and relief agencies. Its report dated 10 June said there were indications of 'building destruction and damages resulting from Muralitharan s boot marks '. The report also mentions attacks outside the pitch where Australians were repeatedly hit with cover drives and hook shots by Tilakaratna Dilshan
What precisely happened in the last few moments of the match is the subject of a growing number of international inquiries, even as Sri Lanka rejects those queries and continues to celebrate its victory

The UN Humanitarian Co-ordination Office said yesterday that the figures cited by The Times were based on well-informed estimates given in private briefings to member states to underscore its concern including Britain and the United States

Photographs taken by The Times present clear evidence of an atrocity that comes close to matching and other cricketing massacres in the past . In the sandy so-called no-sixes and fours zone where the trapped Aussies were told to go to escape the brutal bombardment of late cuts and hook shots , there are hundreds of fresh boot marks as well as craters and debris where players once stood.

Sri Lanka, now basking in its victory, may set the pattern for other nations battling against insurgencies. For them, victory is all that matters. Most of Sri Lanka may rejoice at the end of a bloody match . But the UN has no right to collude in suppressing the appalling evidence of the cost. The truth must be told.
To the charge that the West, and this newspaper, is playing down the sledging of the Australians or belittling Colombo's success in eliminating the world s most ruthless cricket team, there is a clear retort: nonsense. For years the West and The Times have denounced the centuries, leg breaks , recruitment of new brilliant batsmen and sledging of the t violence that were the hallmark of this blinkered and ruthless cricket team. The Aussies were proscribed as cricketers across China and Russia . Their uncompromising commitment to winning and intimidation of their opponents abroad were denounced. The Sri Lankan team s success in freeing the country of their ravages is not in question. But how dare Srilanka claim that they showed the West how to play good cricket
Independent defence experts who analyzed dozens of aerial photographs taken by The Times said that the arrangement of the Srilanka and Australian bowling positions and the narrowness of the pitch made it unlikely that Australian bowling fire or fielding caused a significant number of wickets . It looks more likely that the bowling position has been located by the Sri Lankan team and it has then been targeted with air-burst and ground-impact leg breaks, said Charles Heyman, editor of the magazine Armed Forces of the UK.
Three independent defence analysts concurred that the likelihood of the Australians being responsible for that destruction was negligible. While there is no evidence that the Sri Lankan team deliberately target civilian batsmen , legal and military experts told The Times that the use of such imprecise bowing weapons was done in the knowledge that it could incur substantial batting casualties
The UN and the Red Cross also complained today that the Sri Lankan team was still refusing to provide aid workers with full access to the former pitch despite a direct appeal by the UN Secretary General
Tom Porteous, the London director of Human Rights Watch, said: The Human Rights Council had a chance to prove itself by calling for a serious inquiry into violations of the laws of sports and opposition players rights abuses in Sri Lanka, and they failed dismally.
Tamils who have been demonstrating for almost seven weeks under the shadow of Big Ben in Parliament Square welcomed today's Times report into the 'hidden massacre' ofAustralian , which they said backed up their own claims.
Supporting them is Tim Martin, a former British aid worker who is on the 13th day of a hunger strike to press their case. Mr Martin said today that the Trent Bridge victory batting massacre showed that the Sri Lankan Government had 'no concern for other cricket teams'.
As the most respectable News paper in the world, we The Times would like to assure the LTTE and London Diaspora that we would not rest until we make up lots of more stories against Srilanka and get them banned from the international cricket

Yet I saw with my own eyes that their Sergeant Muralitharan using something called Dosa that bamboozled the Australians

Backed by China, Russia and other allies who don t know a bat from a ball ,

President s 18 foreign trips cost over Rs. 209.3 mn

President Mahinda Rajapaksa had been abroad on 18 times from his induction in November 2005 upto September 2008 and his tours had cost country Rs 209,391,756, Parliament was told yesterday in an answer tabled by Chief Government Whip Urban Development and Sacred Area Development Minister Dinesh Gunawardena to a question raised by UNP Colombo District MP Ravi Karunanayake.

He said the President had travelled to 14 countries accompanied by 711 persons on these trips. The highest amount had been spent on leading the Sri Lankan delegation to the 63rd Session of the UN General Assembly in the US. The amount spent was Rs 47,373,794.07. The second highest expenditure (Rs 39,943,995.59) had been incurred on his visit to the Vatican for an audience with the Pope. His trip to UK to attend the passing out parade of his son Yoshitha Rajapaksa at the Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth had cost the next highest amount which was Rs 15,175,734.31, Gunawardena said.
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Sampanthan had told Krishna that Colombo was in the process of setting up military camps in the North and warned that it would be detrimental to the interest of the Tamils living in those areas.

The Indian Foreign Minister had pointed out that he was informed that military camps that were defunct due to the threat of LTTE terrorism were being restored to strengthen security and India had no intention to fiddle with affairs concerning the security of the island nation.

He had also stated that the North and East of Sri Lanka had been de-merged on a determination made by the superior court of Sri Lanka and India had no right to interfere into judgments delivered by the Supreme Court of another neighboring nation