JVP urges govt. to divulge details of security threat as intimated by police chief

The JVP on Monday urged the government to reveal information about an alleged security threat revealed in a communique between the IGP and the Defence Secretary.

JVP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake told reporters that IGP C.D. Wickremaratna had addressed Defence Ministry Secretary Kamal Gunaratne in a letter dated 27 June and alerted him to the alleged threat.

Dissanayake claimed that according to the letter an unidentified foreign intelligence service was to carry out an attack in either the north or east or in the south to mark the ‘Black Tiger’ day on either 05 or 06 July. He, however, did not name the foreign agency.

Accordingly, all employees of foreign establishments located in Jaffna and VIPs had been advised to stay indoors on those two days, according to the information provided by the police chief to the defense secretary in the said letter.

Dissanayake urged the government to reveal how the information had been gathered or if this was an attempt by the government to curb public protests against it over the current economic and fuel crisis.