Opposition Common candidate Gen. Sarath Fonseka has sent letters of demand to two publications of the state run Lake House newspapers for allegedly publishing defamatory articles against him.

Through his attorneys, Paul Ratnayake Assocaites, Gen. Fonseka sent the letters of demand  against the Editor of the Sunday Observer, Editor- Silumina, printer, publisher of Associated Newspaper of Ceylon Limited claiming Rs. 2000 millions as damages.

Gen. Fonseka claimed that the articles published in the newspapers on Sunday, January 10 were defamatory of him and they were meant to convey total falsehoods to the public of Sri Lanka.
“We are instructed that the said articles had been written with express malice in order to tarnish the unblemished character of our client, at the eve of the Presidential Election of which he is a candidate,” the law firm wrote to the defendants.He estimated the damage to cause him with each articles at Rs. one billion.