An Investigative Report by Ruwan Weerakoon
(Lanka-e-News -2026.June.11, 3.00 A.M. ) Sri Lanka's army officers are rightly celebrated for ending a brutal civil war. But patriotism, however earned, cannot serve as a shield for the abuse of state power. When public funds are diverted to run covert digital campaigns targeting the country's own prosecutors and police investigators, the nation's democratic foundations are at stake. This investigation examines credible allegations that a clandestine unit within Military Intelligence has done precisely that.
Somewhere within the secured perimeter of Sri Lanka's Military Intelligence apparatus, according to multiple sources with direct knowledge of its operations, sits a restricted facility that insiders refer to as the "Omega Room."
The unit is, by all accounts, unlike anything officially acknowledged by the Army. Access is confined to a handpicked intelligence cadre. General military personnel are barred from entry. Its day-to-day operations are, sources allege, overseen by three senior officers who report upward through a chain of command that ultimately leads to the Director General of Military Intelligence (DMI).
The room is equipped with high-speed Sri Lanka Telecom fiber-optic connectivity, high-specification laptops, and specialized hardware for signals intelligence and cyber operations. The configuration, sources say, is purpose-built not for battlefield surveillance or counter-terrorism, but for something far more domestic in its targets.
Sources within intelligence circles familiar with the unit's operational methodology describe a systematic three-stage approach to what they characterize as coordinated psychological operations against civilian targets.
Technical Concealment: Operators use premium commercial Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) to route their digital activity through foreign servers, effectively masking their geographic origin and institutional identity from domestic detection systems.
Identity Fabrication: Using these anonymized connections, personnel generate networks of untraceable email addresses, which serve as the foundation for large-scale phantom Facebook account networks — artificial personas with no genuine human presence behind them.
Content Production: A dedicated team within the unit creates graphics, memes, and digital media designed specifically for psychological impact and algorithmic amplification. The content, sources allege, is engineered for targeted harm.
Three individuals are identified by sources as principal targets of the unit's character assassination campaigns: Attorney General Parinda Ranasinghe, Assistant Solicitor General Dileepa Peiris, one of the state's senior legal officers, and Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Shani Abeysekara, the Director of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), whose tenure was marked by high-profile prosecutions.
Both Peiris and Abeysekara represent, in different ways, the institutional independence of Sri Lanka's legal and investigative architecture. According to sources, the explicit operational goal is not merely to embarrass these officials but to systematically break them psychologically, compromising their personal safety and methodically dismantling their public credibility.
The irony is stark: a unit funded by the state is weaponizing public resources against officers of the same state.
Due to operational security concerns raised by the Director of Military Intelligence (DMI), Major General Deeltha Ariyasena, strict communication restrictions have been enforced within the Omega room:
Mobile Device Ban: Personnel are strictly prohibited from bringing mobile phones into the facility to eliminate the risk of unauthorized photography or video recording of ongoing operations.
Monitored Communications: A designated landline has been installed as the sole authorized method for making and receiving external calls.
Digital Isolation: Intelligence personnel are entirely blocked from accessing personal or official email accounts while inside the Omega room.
Every morning, a captain (whose identity is currently withheld) conducts a strategic briefing outlining the day's targets and specific graphic requirements:
Targeted Assets: Personnel have been instructed to generate new digital imagery of Suresh Sally.
AI Integration: The directive explicitly commands the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) graphic tools, with the ultimate objective of reusing an AI-generated video of Sally for upcoming operations.
Concurrently, intelligence officials are in active discussions with political leaders regarding a coordinated strategy. At present, only two specific individuals have been cleared to launch and implement an online petition advocating for the release of Sally.
The Omega Room's mandate is not purely destructive. Sources allege that the unit simultaneously runs coordinated positive-publicity operations on behalf of Major General Suresh Sallay, artificially amplifying his public profile across social media through the same phantom account networks used to attack others.
The juxtaposition of a military unit tearing down a state prosecutor and a veteran investigator while building up a general raises obvious questions about whose interests the operation ultimately serves.
Perhaps the most damaging allegation is the funding mechanism. Sources from intelligence state that the unit's digital operations are not run on discretionary dark funds or off-books resources; they are financed, at least in part, with Sri Lankan taxpayer money.
Specifically, sources allege that government resources are used to purchase Facebook "boost" services, the platform's paid promotion system, to artificially expand the reach and engagement of defamatory content targeting the named individuals. In other words, the public purse is being drawn upon not to defend the nation, but to destroy the reputations of its own public servants.
The most serious allegation concerns the chain of authorization. Sources with knowledge of command-level decision-making allege that the Omega Room's operations are conducted with the full awareness of Army Commander Lieutenant General Lasantha Rodrigo, and were established on the formal recommendation of Major General Deeptha Ariyasinghe, who is identified as the direct overseer of the unit's activities.
If accurate, this means that Sri Lanka's highest active Army command has sanctioned the use of military personnel, military infrastructure, and public money to run a covert propaganda and defamation apparatus targeting civilian officials of the judiciary and police.
Sri Lanka's Constitution guarantees judicial independence. Its laws strictly prohibit the misuse of public funds, and the Computer Crimes Act criminalizes the kind of coordinated online deception described in this report. If these allegations are substantiated, the conduct described represents not only a gross abuse of military authority but a direct assault on the institutional independence that underpins the rule of law.
The soldiers who fought to defend this country deserve an institution that upholds, rather than subverts, the democratic order.
We are prepared to uncover and document the unlawful activities of military intelligence, spanning both past and present operations.
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