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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ibnanv" data-source="post: 23799838" data-attributes="member: 218596">Lake House taken over; ITN, Rupavahini under attackState-owned Lake House newspapers Daily News, Dinamina and Silumina  Editorials were taken over by Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) unions  last night, Daily FT learns.A highly-placed source linked to Lake House told Daily FT that page one  of today’s Daily News had been changed by Mahinda Rajapaksa loyalists.No  violence had been reported during what was termed as the “unofficial  takeover” of Lake House.Meanwhile, select members of ITN staff came under attack yesterday and  Sri Lanka Rupavahini channel transmission was stopped after a group  barged in soon after the news of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa  being sworn in as Prime Minister broke.Finance and Mass Media Minister Mangala Samaraweera termed the halting  of Rupavahini transmission as an act of sabotage. Special Task Force  personnel had been brought in to bring the situation under control.According to ITN News Deputy General Manager – News and Current Affairs  Subhash Weerathunga Jayawardena, he had been informed an attack was  being planned at ITN shortly after the swearing-in had taken place and  he had been advised to leave the office immediately.“I got into my vehicle with two other staff members and tried to leave,  but we were surrounded at the gate by the members of a union associated  with the SLPP. Mahinda Rajapaksa’s supporters surrounded the vehicle,  asked me to get down and threatened us saying ‘your time is done’.  Immediately some longstanding ITN staff members gave us cover and asked  me to leave. I was able to leave the place because they saved me,”  Jayawardena told Daily FT.According to Jayawardena, the mob had then entered the newsroom,  threatened several others and forced them to leave the premises, after  which they had taken over the newsroom. “Select people from the news team had been threatened and put out,” he said.<a href="http://www.ft.lk/front-page/Lake-House-taken-over--ITN--Rupavahini-under-attack/44-665570" target="_blank">http://www.ft.lk/front-page/Lake-House-taken-over--ITN--Rupavahini-under-attack/44-665570</a>MR takeover looks like a coup than a legal takeover.</blockquote>

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