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Journalist Kasun Pussawela is reported to have lodged a complaint in National Witness and Victims Protection Authority about threats and pressures coming from Neomal Rangajeewa, Inspector of Sri Lanka Police, who had been arrested and released on bail after being identified as a suspect in a prison massacre in 2012, as well as from other suspects of the massacre.Twenty Seven inmates of Welikada Prison were killed during a riot on November 9th and 10th 2012. Journalist Kasun Pussawela has been writing for years about the case have already published several articles and a book. As told by the journalist to INFORM, he is threatened and unfairly blamed due to his reporting.