In order to avoid some of the catastrophic situation in Sri Lanka, at least some fuel should be available to the people. Petroleum Minister Kanchana Wijesekera left for Qatar yesterday to refuel Sri Lanka, which has been turning into Somalia as a result of decades of mismanagement.
The photographs taken there have been released to the media. He is in talks with the Qatari government fund in the photos. Meanwhile, the Criminal Investigation Department of Sri Lanka has designated a 2020-funded organization in Qatar as a terrorist organization. However, we have not received any reports from the Sri Lankan government that it has been so named. We find that old news on the Colombo Telegraph website. According to the report on Ajaz Hezbollah, the Sri Lankan CID is in a bad mood. The Sinhala translation of the news is below and the relevant link is below.
“Qatar Charity is the Government of Qatar’s main charity. By the end of June 2020, the Qatar charity had entered into a partnership with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and donated $ 2 million to the agency. The charity works closely with other international organizations, including the United Nations and UNICEF.
Hezbollah’s lawyer said yesterday that he did not know the truth of the allegations, but that naming an international humanitarian agency recognized by the CID as a terrorist organization was a ploy to trap Hezbollah.
They said the ‘Qatar Charity’ was working closely with the Sri Lankan government and had worked with the Sri Lankan Embassy in Qatar to provide relief even during the Kovid-19 epidemic.
The lawyer said the naming of the Qatar charity as a terrorist organization was “absolute evidence that the whole case was fabricated from the beginning.” They said the CID had taken the children alone for three consecutive days without their parents and forced them to confess in order to trap the eminent human rights lawyer.
Earlier it was revealed that children between the ages of 8 and 13 from low income families who were given scholarships had been taken into custody by the CID and forced to confess.
The lawyer told the court at the time that the CID had written statements to the children and revealed them to the media.
Magistrate Dissanayake told the court that the CID officers had tried to show the children pictures while they were in their cell and they had to be ‘chased away’.
The magistrate ordered an inquiry into how the confession was leaked to the media.
The naming of the Qatari charity is seen as an escalation of Hezbollah’s efforts. The Qatar Charity has a registered office in Sri Lanka and none of them have been questioned or arrested, but the CID has designated it a terrorist organization, the report said.
The truth of the matter, however, is that branches of other states are established in Sri Lanka at the diplomatic level. There is an accepted methodology for that. If the CID in Sri Lanka were to label an organization that is said to be closely associated with the United Nations as well as an agency affiliated with the Government of Qatar as a terrorist organization, it should immediately take action against those who carried out the investigation and conducted an investigation against them and made a report without evidence. To punish them severely.
