REFUGEE

The President’s security advisors it is learnt are looking at the possibility of earning the people’s sympathy towards the President during the election campaign by using various terrorism threats. It is also reliably learnt that Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa was in the process of conducting a proper study on the matter.

The Defence Secretary and several other officials have had a secret discussion last Friday to explore the possibility of the repercussions of having a bomb explosion in a meeting attended by the President. An advisor to the Defence Ministry, two senior officers from the Army and a


senior Navy officer had also attended the discussion.