'Allah' lawyers' office ransacked...

Some intimidation here...

Burglars ransacked the offices of lawyers representing Christians fighting for the right to use the word "Allah" to refer to God in this Muslim-majority country, officials said Thursday.

Lawyer S. Selvarajah said that staff arrived at work in the morning to find several locks and steel grill doors to enter the 2nd and 3rd floor offices cut, drawers ransacked and papers strewn on the floor.

He said his partner's laptop was missing. A mobile phone service provider's shop and tuition center on the first floor were not broken into, he said.

"Only our office has been targeted," he said. "It looks like it is an intimidation tactic ... We anticipated something will happen. We are definitely upset about this," he told The Associated Press.