RANJITH SOYSA

Julain Assange who revealed sordid aspects of West ‘s diplomacy including on the ‘war on terrorism’ in keeping with the principles of investigative journalism is hounded by the British Police. If not for Assange and his indefatigable production of Wikileaks many political and diplomatic sins committed by the leading Western ‘democracies ‘ would have been remained as ‘rational’ and right decisions.

He commenced working on Wikileaks in 2006 creating a web-based ‘dead letter box’ for would be leaks. He was shifting from place to place in handling Wikileaks. Not only the numbers killed butmany other issues such as torture carried out by the US ,the British and the allied forces came to the light because of Wikileaks. The total number killed between 2004 and 2009  in Iraq were revealed factually as 109,032 by Wikileaks and was also reported that the US High Command refused to look into the reports of torture undertaken by the allied fores, Even little known stories of the British and the US exchange of messages on Sri Lanka’s war against Tamil Tigers are also reported in the Wikileaks. The detailed story of the expulsion of the natives from the Chagos islands too became known only thanks to Wikileaks.

Asssange was born in Townswille, Australia in 1971. Another, well known political commentator, John Pilger states ” The action of the British Police in literally dragging Julian Assange from the Eduadorean emassay and SMASHING INTERNATIONAL LAW by the Ecuadorean regime in permitting this barbarity are CRIMES AGAINST MOST BASIC NATURAL JUSTICE. This is a warning to all journalists.

RANJITH SOYSA