Kurunegala District UNP Parliamentarian Dayasiri Jayasekera yesterday said the party has no confidence in the investigations by the police into the brutal assault on media person Poddala Jayantha.

"Since 2005, 11 media personnel have been killed, 27 have been mercilessly assaulted and four have been abducted," he said.

If any media person or a group is aligned to the LTTE, as they claim, what it should do is to punish those who are found guilty according to the law of the land.

But what the government does is going on a witch hunt attacking journalists who criticise the regime, Jayasekera said.

Addressing a media conference at the Opposition Leader’s house, Jayasekera claimed there was an effort by the Government to scuttle the police investigations with regard to assault on the journalist.

Never in the country’s history have the lives of media personnel been subjected to such dangers and the government institutions and the state media has been supportive of these acts, he said.