President Anura Kumara Dissanayake stated in Parliament recently, while delivering his reply under the Ministry of Defense expenditure heading, that two ways in which a threat to national security could arise have been identified.
The President said that armed groups in the Batticaloa district of the Eastern Province and the North have been identified, and that there is a planned conspiracy behind them.
If we look at history, one of the threats to national security is racism and extremism. If there was a threat to national security during the long-term war, racism and extremism were at the root of it.
If the Easter attack threatened our national security, racism and extremism were at the root of it. Therefore, racism and extremism are areas that can pose a strong threat to national security.
We will never allow racism and extremism to rise again in our country. We are firm on the abolition of the Prevention of Terrorism Act. But a legal framework is needed for organized crime and extremist tendencies.
Otherwise, if organized crime gangs behave in a normal situation that allows organized crime gangs to develop freely and where ordinary law can be utilized, it is a new situation that overrides ordinary law, a new law is needed.”
“We have identified two places where such armed activity can occur. One is Batticaloa. A place where such a situation can occur. Another place is the North. Why.. Some people have built armed groups that they can lead. There is such an organization in Batticaloa, there are small groups in Jaffna that they can lead. We think there is some planned conspiracy to bring these into action simultaneously,” the President said.
The President said that armed groups in the Batticaloa district of the Eastern Province and the North have been identified. The President said that armed groups in the Batticaloa district of the Eastern Province and the North have been identified.
Public Security Minister Ananda Wijepala said that attention has been drawn to an organization called ‘Super Muslim’ operating in the Kalmunai area based on information received from the people of that area.