NORWEGIAN CITIZEN SHOT BY THE NORWEGIAN GOVERNMENT BACKED TERRORISTS

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Oslo, 07 July (Asiantribune.com): The house of a Norwegian journalist
exposing the corruption of the LTTE leader, Yogaraja Balasingham,
rigging the last Oslo municipal election was hit with bullets
yesterday.Journalist Nina Johnsrud's house made headlines in
Norwegian media.
The news of the bullets from a small calibre gun shattering the windows
and damaging the furniture of Ms. Nina Johnsrud's house made
headlines in Norwegian media. Ms. Johnsrud works for the newspaper
"Dagsavisen", a popular Norwegian newspaper.

Police are investigating as to who is behind this threat to Ms.
Johnsrud. She is convinced the shooting is connected to her work as a
journalist. Ms. Nina Johnsrud has previously been writing about
Norwegian criminal gangs. She was one of the leading journalists who
exposed Balasingham's rigging of the last municipality election. It
is this rigging that resulted in Balasingham getting elected to the
Oslo Municipality.

The Norwegians Against Terrorism (NAT) told the Asian Tribune that Ms.
Johnsrud was highly unpopular with the LTTE after her exposure of
Yogarajah Balasingham election fraud.

In a news story titled 'Found pre-arranged voting ballots for the
Labour Party candidate Balasingham Yogarajah', two journalists Karen R.
Tjernshaugen and Nina Johnsrud, said that Yogarajah was placed as the
Labour Party's 21st candidate on their list in Oslo, and won a seat in
the city council having received several extra votes. With 2,470
personal votes he received the most preferential votes after two Labour
Party stalwarts, Ellen Horn and Rune Gerhardsen.The image of the house
of Nina Johnsrud's house showing the shattered windows and damaged
the furniture due to gun shots.
The election officials at Linderud Centre in Oslo were horrified when a
voter, Ole Elvedal complained that there were several pre-arranged
Labour Party-ballots with votes for Balasingham already marked at the
booth. According to the election law it is permitted to deliver
prearranged preferential ballots to voters on the street, but such
ballot papers cannot be brought into the polling centres.

Speaking to the Dagsavisen, the voter said, "When I went into the
voting cubicle and selected a Labour Party ballot paper to vote that
party and its candidates, I discovered that candidate No. 21 was
already marked with a cross. I went through the entire bunch of
ballots, and found three ballots that were already marked and then I
brought it to the notice of the officials".

The crosses were marked rather weakly with a ballpoint pen. Many voters
would not have noticed them but the computer system, which counts
preferential votes, would have easily recognized the cross as a vote
for Balasingham. Furthermore the Dagsavisen reported that Tone Darling,
information secretary in the Bjerke constituency also confirmed that
election officials on two occasions had found Labour Party-ballots in
booths with a cross mark against Yogarajah's name. She felt that the
prearranged ballots were placed in the booth just before the voter who
complained had entered the booth. "We were aware that someone tried to
place prearranged preferential ballots," Ms. Darling told the
newspaper."Hence we checked the booths regularly to prevent such
malpractices."Yogarajah Balasingham who has been accused of election
fraud
Balasingham, who is also known as Bhaskaran, strongly rejected that he
in any way was involved in rigging. "I am not aware of this. Some of my
enemies may have done this to hurt me," he said when questioned by the
Dagsavisen. However, moderate Tamils in Norway who canvassed for
parties like the Socialist Left, said it was ridiculous to say enemies
had rigged votes in favour of Balasingham. "The rigging by the LTTE has
made the entire Tamil community lepers in the eyes of Norwegians," a
leading Tamil professional in Oslo said. "This also proves once again
that the LTTE has no respect whatsoever for democracy. In addition
Balasingham was the only candidate who provided transport to the voters
which is not a practice in Norway."

An electoral analyst, Bjarte Rørmark told the Dagsavisen that the
ballot paper and voting supervision methods were not good enough. He
added that there were instances of voters making minor mistakes. "But
any attempts at marking votes for specific names on the ballots by
somebody before a voter picks the ballot has never happened before," he
lamented.

NAT also told the Asian Tribune that earlier this year Norwegian Tamils
has been attacked with hand guns. NAT expects the Norwegian Police to
investigate any links, if there are any, between the shooting of Ms.
Johnsrud and the attack on Sivarajah Rajasingham, a Tamil resident who
has been wait-listed by the LTTE hit squad in Norway. (See the
Norwegian Ny Tid (New Times) report on Rajasingham published under the
heading Trapped in the Claws of the Tigers in Norway "