The Sinhala people of the South are intelligent enough...!!! They are sure going to teach this Govt. a lesson..!!!

Facts exposed on the arrests of Journalists to cover up Supremo’s brother in law’s palace murky doings



(Lanka-e-News, Sep.08, 2009, 5.50PM) UNP M.P. Sagala Ratnayake speaking to the media today (8) , said under the guise of developing the country it is the Rajapakse family that is developing in the South. The brother in law of the Supremo has purchased a Tea Estate worth Rs. 40 million. From where did he get all this money ? he asked. To pave the road leading to the Estate with concrete , Rs. 95 lakhs had been collected from the people.. 3 kilometers of Govt. land has been acquired to make another road to this Estate which has been carpeted while there exists a road already. In order to build this road , all pipelines of residents had been damaged .Owing to this ,570 families in these areas are without water. Even Temple residents have to travel miles to collect water. According to residents , the B I L ‘s palace Building is being erected employing the workers attachéd to the Highways Authority .

The three Journalists arrested recently for terrorist activities was on a false premise. It is because these Journalists were taking pictures of this Palace to write on the murky activities raging in and around the palace. It is in order to suppress the exposures that the Govt. took these Journalists into custody. The Journalists have a right to take pictures of concrete roads constructed out of people’s funds, he noted.

These Journalists were detained at the Deniyaya Police for two days without even a ‘B’ report . Although they are detained for conspiring to assassinate the President , these Journalists don’t even have a picture of the Palace of President’s Brother in law.

Don’t these Journalists have a right to take pictures to expose the misdeeds and swindles in this country. ? Cant they report on waste of people’s monies to build private palaces?. When the residents were questione d as to why they are scared to speak out , they replied, if this Govt. can murder a high profile Journalist like Lasantha Wickremetunge , ‘ we are like flies if they wish to kill’ , he related.

Though the Govt. is bragging about the Southern development , talk is cheap . Even the sympathizers of the SLFP area openly criticizing the Govt. The Southerners are complaining of how the Govt. has now made cut backs on the allowances paid to the Soldiers., and how the Govt . has forgotten them. The maimed and deformed soldiers are not being provided with the necessary treatment , they lamented. Now, ‘it is only the flourishing and nourishing the Rajapakse Govt. we see around’, people say , he observed.

The people of the South are intelligent enough . They are sure going to teach this Govt. a lesson , he concluded.

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