The Dirt Named “US Embassy”

It is not new that US Embassies generally there to support the Americanization of countries. We have seen in the past where US Embassies helping anti-government elements in the countries.

We all know and we all have read about United States’ state-sponsored terrorism all around the world. We all know the past where they kept mum on their war crimes in the name “war on terror”.

We all know about US sponsored terrorism and their Embassies helping that goal.

Now let us talk about US Embassy of Sri Lanka.

They published their statements on Aluthgama and Beruwela on their website.
“U.S. Embassy Statement on Aluthgama & Beruwela Violence”

It has their usual statement.

Below, they had comments. And one comment from someone called “Arsh★£♥▼€” posted a photo of Gotabhaya Rajapaksa and Gnanasara Thero and saying “President Mahindha Rajapaksha’s Brother Gothabe Rajapaksha with Sri Lankan terrorist Bodu Bala Sena…”

According to the Twitter account linked to that comment, he is from Chicago.

Another comment directly accuses, saying Gotabhaya Rajapaksa did everything and he is the reason for Aluthgama incidents.

Now the question is, how that comment got published there?
US Embassy has comment moderation enabled. Its comment moderators need to approve the comments before they get published. So why did they publish it?

You may argue that they allow all the comments. No, they do not. I replied one of above comments asking this.

It was under moderation and has not been approved yet.

Which means, US Embassy approved that comments against Defense Secretary knowing that they are approving it.

How good is that for an embassy to allow accusations about the Defense Secretary without any evidence? Why can’t government take action against this?

(They might take those comments down. But we have screenshots. So do not need to worry.)

US Embassy are not known for ethics, though.

Their social media person Prasad, aka BuduMalli, posted on Twitter boasting about US Embassy’s social media training.

US Embassy posted the above statement on Aluthgama recently on Twitter. Their Tamil statement had spelling mistakes and we pointed out the mistakes to them on Twitter.

What did they do?
They favorited our tweets. Therefore, we understood that they have read them.

Then they deleted that tweet (One of the first things you teach on social media trainings is that “don’t ever delete a tweet” if it is wrong.) and posted a new tweet.

See below for our conversations with BuduMalli.

US Embassy has NOT thanked us yet.

In addition, ironic that someone who had “social media trainer”, “geek” and all boasting terms in his Twitter bio have lost his Twitter account now.

But, knowing Budu Malli, we feel this “hacked” drama might be fake.
After all, he replied to the accounts he managed.

UPDATE: After publishing this post, our post has been approved by the US Embassy. Nice to see them react, even though they did not react well enough in earlier occasions.