Sri Lanka's Housing Minister Wimal Weerawansa today called for the shutting down of a Voice of America (VOA) transmitting station in the island’s north-western coast.
“We must shut down the VOA station,” he told a rally in Kandy.
“VOA get out of Sri Lanka. They use this station for intelligence gathering,” he added.
The Voice of America, a US government-funded broadcaster, expanded their operations in Sri Lanka with the commissioning of a re-broadcasting facility at Iranawila in 1999.
Weerawansa last week called for the boycott of US companies such as Coca Cola, Pepsi, McDonalds, KFC, Google and Gmail but the government later said it was the minister’s personal view and was not backed by the cabinet.
