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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 7814504" data-attributes="member: 92282">At a time when the Sri Lanka Mission to the United Nations should be  gearing itself to battle Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and his panel of  experts who are threatening to probe war crimes, the office is in  turmoil with sniping, backstabbing and charges of sexual harassment.                        Less than a month after he was appointed, Sri  Lanka's Deputy Permanent Representative Bandula Jayasekera, a former  editor of the Daily News, has been unceremoniously recalled to Colombo. A  similar fate befell Jayasekera's predecessor, Suresh Chandra, who was  also recalled in less than six months after his appointment. Both were  political appointees.                       "That place is a mad house,"' says an External  Affairs Ministry official who once served in New York. "There is a  stream of complaints, petitions and anonymous letters coming to the  Ministry every week. The right thing to do is to clean up the place by  transferring every one of them out of New York -- at least for the  greater good of the country." The inmates have obviously taken over the  asylum -- Angoda-style, he added.                        The complaints are heavily weighted against a  junior diplomat who claims to have the right political connections in  the Presidential Secretariat and is accused of ''terrorizing'' the  mission staff, both diplomatic and non-diplomatic. According to reports  reaching the ministry, she has openly threatened to politically engineer  the transfer of any diplomat, junior or senior, if he or she crosses  her path. In addition, she has kept to her word triggering a widespread  sense of fear in the Mission.                       Meanwhile, Jayasekera was not given any  official reasons for his recall. A senior official of the ministry  informed him of his transfer over the phone last week apparently  assuring him a higher political appointment when he returns to Colombo.  Whether this is a consolation prize or not remains to be seen.sundaytimes lk</blockquote>

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