Sri Lanka Guardian mystery unearthed by Bangladeshi intelligence agencies
by Sajjad Hossain
April 29, 2012
Leading Bangla daily newspaper The Shamokal on April 29 published news titled 'Is there any newspaper named Sri Lanka Guardian', where the Bangla daily quoted Bangladeshi intelligence agency stating there is no such newspaper named Sri Lanka Guardian published from Sri Lanka. The Bangla daily also claimed that the Sri Lanka Guardian does not also have any online edition. Daily Shamokal further said, the Sri Lankan High Commission in Dhaka confirmed about non existence of any newspaper named Sri Lanka Guardian. It said, a racket is continuing publishing anti-government propaganda using pseudonyms, thus attacking the ruling Bangladesh Awami League. It [Sri Lanka Guardian] also published similar reports after the Pilkhana Massacre in February 2009. A senior diplomat at Bangladesh High Commission in Sri Lanka also reportedly confirmed Daily Shamokal about non existence of any newspaper named The Sri Lanka Guardian in Sri Lanka. Bangladeshi intelligence agencies are investigating the issue of publication of a number of reports in Sri Lanka Guardian against Bangladesh. It is initially learnt that Bangladesh correspondent of this news portal is one William Gomes.
On investigation by Weekly Blitz team it was found that Sri Lanka Guardian maintains a site at
Sri Lanka Guardian, which might already have been blocked by Bangladesh authorities at the suggestions of local intelligence agencies. When contacted, sources at Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission declined to comment on the issue of blocking the Sri Lanka Guardian site in Bangladesh.
Self-styled 'human rights ambassador' William Nicholas Gomes is the Bangladesh correspondent of The Sri Lanka Guardian. It is interesting to note that, the questioned Sri Lanka Guardian selected a non-journalist like William as their 'correspondent' while William Nicholas Gomes is running a website at
William's Desk | Official Website of William Nichcolas Gomes, which is continuing mostly false propaganda against Bangladesh. In the ABOUT page of this website it is written: "William Nicholas Gomes, a Bangladeshi journalist, human rights activist and author was born on 25 December, 1985 in Dhaka. As an investigative journalist he wrote widely for leading European and Asian media outlets. He is also active in advocating for free and independent media and journalists' rights, and is part of the free media movement, Global Independent Media Center an activist media network for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate telling of the truth."
William Nicholas Gomes also has published the image of the Press Accreditation Card issued by Press Information Department in Bangladesh [Accreditation Card No. 3127]. Source at Special Branch of Bangladesh Police told Weekly Blitz that, the so-called Press Accreditation Card issued to William Gomes is false. When asked as to how a person is displaying the image of such "false card" on the web and why no legal action has been initiated against William Nicholas Gomes for forging such government documents, the Special Branch source said, "William Gomes is not residing in Bangladesh. It was learnt that he is currently living in Nepal under the protection of some leftist groups. He also is involved in various forms of crimes including trafficking in Bangladeshi women."
Neither the Special Branch of Bangladesh Police nor Press Information Department of Ministry of Information could give satisfactory reply to Weekly Blitz as to what legal actions are being taken against William Nicholas Gomes for forging press accreditation card. A source inside Press Information Department told Weekly Blitz that, some unscrupulous elements inside the Ministry of Information might have hands behind extending patronization to culprits like William Nicholas Gomes and might have been suppressing the fact of his forging government documents.
William Nicholas Gomes is an ex-Muslim, who converted into Christianity few years back and was working as an employee with CARITAS under the leadership of Rev. Father Tim and Sister Rosaline Costa. While he was working in CARITAS, Nicholas Gomes tried to steal information from the computers in that organization, and lately he was sacked from CARITAS being caught red-handed while stealing information.
At this stage, William Gomes started claiming himself as a 'Pastor', and tried to blackmail Rev. Father Tim and his organization by twisting the story of one Mary Mondal. At that time, William collected reasonable amount of money from various individuals by selling the story of Mary Mondal.
It is apprehended that, William Gomes is in fact an infiltrated Islamist agent in the society, whose main mission is to malign various secularist forces and anti-Jihadist forces in Bangladesh. He also is conspiring against the current secularist government as well as promoting pro-Pakistan ideologies in Bangladesh. William Gomes is also is a known anti-US and anti-Israel element and has been consistently spreading anti-US and anti-Semitic venom through various websites, mostly in vernacular language.
He also claims to be a Marxist agent in his own article, where William Gomes wrote: "Capitalism encourages the negative aspects of human nature, supplanting values such as mercy, kindness, justice and compassion in favor of greed, selfishness and blind ambition. I share the political goals of Marxists, for example replacing capitalism with socialism, which should in turn be followed by communism at a later point in the future. At any point even in gun point, if that cause my life I will stand against the suppressing Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI), the Bangladesh's Military Intelligence is behind the arrest of labor rights activist Moshrefa Mishu. I am against the inhuman torture, cross fire, disappearance which is mainly guided by DGFI and RAB."
In addition, William is also accused of trafficking in women. He reportedly trafficked Mrs. Sima D. Silva, wife of James D Silva and thei daughter and tried to sell them at Indian brothels. In 2008, William went to India and sought asylum with a number of Western missions by telling false stories of him being persecuted in Bangladesh.
William Gomes changes his identity quite frequently. Once he claimed to be a pastor then a Human Rights activist and finally a journalist. There is no evidence of William Gomes working with any of the local newspapers in Bangladesh. He currently claims to be representing Modern Ghana and Sri Lanka Guardian news sites. Additionally, William Gomes runs a number of so-called organizations, based only on websites, without any valid address. He also has a website titled williamgomes.org, which exists without any content. According to Bangladeshi intelligence, William Gomes is a low graded publicity hunter as well as a Marxist with anti US and anti Israel commitment. One of his major tasks is to oppose any anti-Semitic and anti-Jihadist forces within Bangladesh. Additionally, his agenda is to defame Bangladesh Armed Forces as well as secularist forces in the country. William Nicholas Gomes visited India and Nepal a number of times during 2005-2011 without any valid travel document. A source tells Weekly Blitz that this man might have involvement with the under-world drug and arms trafficking networks.
Sri Lanka Guardian mystery unearthed by Bangladeshi intelligence agencies :: Weekly Blitz
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This seems to be RAW's answer to the thread article.
16 guests at the moment, i wonder whos watching.
