“The number of pro-LTTE websites launching false propaganda is thousands in numbers and even at this moment there may be hundreds of thousands of people reading them and looking at this country with an awful eye, “said Lieutenant General Jagath Jayasuriya.

The commander of the SL Army was delivering the keynopte address in Colombo at a conference on cyber wrfare on Tuesday.

Information analysts, journalists and defence experts had gathered to the Galadari hotel in Colombo 'to examine the possibilities and nature of cyber warfare and it’s effect on Sri Lanka' said the Sri Lankan military.

'Collective effort'

The army commander warned that unlike in conventional war fare where the security personal are prime targets any one could be a victim of cyber attack.

Lt. Gen. Jayasuriya cautioned that anti Sri lankan forces and pro - LTTE activists around the world have plenty of room to launch attacks on the cyberspace.

He said that battling a cyber war is not just a battle of bits and bytes and it needs to be a collective effort between the military personal and experts.