Posted on December 29th, 2020
By Rohana R. Wasala
According
to a news item carried in The Island/December 28, 2020, Russian Ambassador in
Colombo Yuri Materiy forewarned Sri Lanka’s Minister of Public Security Retired
Rear Admiral Sarath Weerasekera that extremist Islamic terrorist organizations
may channel funds to their Lankan counterparts on the pretext of extending
COVID-19 aid. ‘In response the Minister said that after the war a new strategy
had been formulated by the then Sri Lankan government to increase the
intelligence battalions from 3-7 and deported nearly 160 madrasa scholar
leaders who under the guise of religious studies were spreading hate and