{"id":96208,"date":"2019-12-09T17:05:34","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T00:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=96208"},"modified":"2019-12-09T17:05:34","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T00:05:34","slug":"nuclear-power-project-in-katchchativu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/12\/09\/nuclear-power-project-in-katchchativu\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear Power Project in Katchchativu?"},"content":{"rendered":"

By : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

Since Mr. Gotabhaya won the\npresidential election the anti Sri Lankan media outlets have unleashed a spate\nof reports and write-ups against Sri Lanka and President Gotabhaya\nRajapaksa.  Lanka-E-News (LEN) the UNP\nwebsite published from London, access to which was restricted from Sri Lanka by\nthe former President following harsh personal attacks on him and his family,\nhas published several news items especially focussing the readers in foreign\ncountries with the objective of building antagonism and hostility against Sri\nLanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In one of these items it says that Gotabaya Rajapaksas visit to India was to deceive India\nand to join hands with China and to put the country in an irreparable nuclear\ndanger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It says that Gotabhaya\nhas entered a confidentiality agreement with China to launch a non-commercial\nmilitary nuclear power project on Sri Lanka’s Kachchativu Island, which is\nadjacent to India. In addition to that Gotabaya is trying to fill up another\n400 hectares from the southern sea, join with the current port city and sell\nout to China and his is the reason that the Chinese government lavishly spent\non Gotabaya\u2019s election campaign and China has already started the work\nfollowing Gota\u2019s swearing in ceremony held on the 18th<\/sup> but it does\nnot say what work it has started.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nnews item states that representatives of a Chinese nuclear power company,\nDongfang Electric Corporation (DEC), the backbone of the Chinese central\ngovernment, President Secretary P.B Jayasundera and a group of Sri Lankan Navy\nofficers has gone on an observation tour to the Kachchativu Island in a\nhelicopter on the 21st.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\nexplains that there is no people living in Kachchatheevu Island but people from\nIndia and Sri Lanka annually gather to the feast of St. Anthonys church\nsituated in the island and if a nuclear project constructed in Kachchatheevu\npeople entering it would be prohibited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nnews item further states that following their revelation Gotabhaya government\nmay declare that they are working with China in Kachchativu to generate electricity\nusing nuclear power, but the real story behind is different and that is the\nreason why pt is carried out in secret.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LEN\nstates that to cover this story from Indian officials, Gotabaya in an interview\nwith an Indian journalist said that he is going to revive the Hambanthota port\nalready given to China and pretended that he is a pro Indian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LEN\nadds that the Chinese nuclear project at Kachchativu is certainly a serious\nthreat to India and giving addition of another 400 hectares of land to port\ncity in Colombo will strengthen China’s power in the region and at the same\ntime, the country becomes a ballpark of world powers that cannot be restored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nnews item concludes that although Gotabaya tries to hide this to all but could\nnot hide this from European intelligence services. It says reports reaching\nLanka e news confirm that this is one of the reasons that EU countries were not\nhappy about Gotabayas swearing in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nLEN also give much publicity to the Swiss Embassy drama and attempts to project\nas a true incident perpetrated by the government.  In this respect it make use of a disparaging\narticle published by the New York Times saying A Swiss Embassy employee is abducted and asked about asylum applications\nand investigators are banned from leaving just days after Gotabaya Rajapaksa is\nelected. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Twisting the contents of the New York Times article\nto get its objects fulfilled LEN says fears of a potential crackdown on critics of the newly\nreturned Rajapaksa political dynasty in Sri Lanka are rising just days after\nthe election, as officials and journalists who investigated the Rajapaksas for\nhuman rights abuses and corruption began trying to flee the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\nsays a Sri Lankan employee of the Swiss Embassy in Colombo was abducted on\nMonday by unidentified men and forced to hand over sensitive embassy\ninformation, and the abductors have forced her to unlock her cellphone data,\nwhich contained information about Sri Lankans who have recently sought asylum\nin Switzerland, and the names of Sri Lankans who aided them as they fled the\ncountry because they feared for their safety after Gotabaya Rajapaksa won the\npresidency in elections this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\nsays on the same day of this abduction, Mr. Rajapaksa imposed a blanket travel\nban on more than 700 members of the Sri Lankan police unit that had been\ninvestigating the family, and other police officers raided a news outlet\ncritical of the Rajapaksas and forced several journalists to hand their\ncomputers over for analysis, in what the police said was an investigation into\naccusations of hate speech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This\nparticular website is making these malicious allegations because it is foreign\nbased and some appropriate diplomatic action should immediately be taken against\nit before it causes irreparable damage to the image of Sri Lanka.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA Since Mr. Gotabhaya won the presidential election the anti Sri Lankan media outlets have unleashed a spate of reports and write-ups against Sri Lanka and President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa.  Lanka-E-News (LEN) the UNP website published from London, access to which was restricted from Sri Lanka by the former President following harsh […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aamnizam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}