Saturday, December 15, 2007

Sri Lanka 'Bigwigs' Tap & Tell

Sri Lanka - A Government bigwig has commenced a dirty programme of eavesdropping and recording the personal telephone dialogues of the opposition politicians and making them available to listen for a few handpicked media persons.

As a part of this programme, an editor-in-chief of a weekend English newspaper was summoned to the Presidential Secretariat and he was made to listen to a telephone dialogue between a UNP leader and another politician. (more)