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The message is simple. Report on matters perceived as national security and you will be considered an enemy of the state.

That's the warning on the Sri Lankan Defence Ministry website, in an article entitled, "Deriding the war heroes for a living - the ugly face of 'Defence Analysts' in Sri Lanka," posted in early June. The article warns journalists against "criticism of military operations, criticism of promotion schemes in the armed forces, criticism of military procurement and using 'unethical' measures to obtain information."

Successive governments in Sri Lanka and competing militant organizations have attempted (and often succeeded) to suppress the media and stifle professionalism with a combination of violence and legal constrains. Yet, those acts fade into insignificance when compared with the unprecedented attacks on media workers in the past two years.

Much of the curbs on rights and freedoms in Sri Lanka stem from the country's seemingly intractable civil war, which pits the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) – also known as the Tamil Tigers – against the state. The LTTE wants a separate state in the north and east for the minority Tamils who complain their basic rights have been violated by the majority Sinhalese community. The latter dominate the government and the armed forces.

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Most of these so called journalists who are pointing their fingers at the government are employed by their foreign masters who have no better reason to keep the war afloat, or keep Sri Lanka a poorly third-world nation, for it is their livelihoods. If the war was ended tomorrow all these NGO/INGO would lose their jobs and the cushy lifestyles they have grown accustomed to, with their SUV’s and Cinnamon Garden homes, five star conferences and meetings along with all the other perks and expense accounts.

If they didn’t have anything to sing about and create a furore back home, their masters would not be able to run those tax-free charities which advertise on your TV, showing poor starving children and rotting dead bodies, and ask you for your “small donation”, which is used to fuel their Champaign receptions and drug heady parties on the Colombo social scene.

It is within their white master’s interests to destabilise the country, like lobbying to make the country lose her seat at the UNHRC, after which the NGO/INGO’s celebrated heavily with grand parties in Colombo. Most of these journalists don’t even know what they are doing, because they believe they are doing their jobs properly albeit hindered by the government and all they really care about is their own existence, which depends on their pay cheque at the end of each month.

I like your claim, “to suppress the media and stifle professionalism”, which is a claim made by those ignorant journalists who are only interested in carrying out the assignments, dished out to them by their masters, in the most professional way possible, to please the boss for personal and financial gain.

Don’t for one minute believe that these NGO/INGO’s are good Samaritans, there solely to help the oppressed masses. For all we know it is possible that some of the so called atrocities are committed by individuals sponsored by these very same good Samaritans. It is certainly in their interest, with bigger powers backing them for various gains.

It is highly probable that these very NGO/INGO’s are actually advocating and even sponsoring attacks against civilians. Especially the Norwegians and British INGO’s because they have a history of such impudence. Remember how Englishman dressed-up like Arabs were caught by Iraqi police shooting at civilians. Now, why on earth would friendly Englishmen who are risking their lives in Iraq to protect the Iraqi’s from terrorists, be involved in committing acts of terror on innocent civilians themselves..? http://www.theinsider.org/news/article.asp?id=1556

The answer is simply that, if you get the local factions to start killing each other, you destabilise the country quicker, you then have more valid reason to be there. Peacekeepers of a new civil war, you created.

The two Englishmen caught for shooting the Arabs were later banged up in the Basra prison, but before they could be interrogated by the Iraqi’s, the British armed forces broke-in to the prison and freed these “real terrorists”.

Now, also remember that Norwegian diplomats are the 'advance guard' of the US-European Empire. They helped destroy Yugoslavia. They set Israel on the path to destruction. Now they will finish destroying Sri Lanka. Next: India. And Spain - http://www.hirhome.com/yugo/oslo2.htm

So, if you are a journalist and don’t want to be considered an enemy of the state in Sri Lanka, consider national security first and put your priorities behind protecting the nations right to stand up and fight her enemies, herself. If you want to shout about human rights violations, Sri Lanka’s is minor compared to what you can write about, US, British, Norwegian and even the Vatican. What about what is happening in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine and even 9/11.

If you are not a journalist and are just a concerned reader, stop funding charities and NGO’s that operate internationally claiming to protect human rights in war ravaged countries, for they are the biggest offenders with hidden agendas.

British dressed like Arabs shoot at Iraqi civilians