29 September 2012, 5:05 pm by Tisaranee Gunasekara http://dbsjeyaraj.com/dbsj/archives/11186 The main budgetary allocations for 2012 are out; and the winner, by a very wide margin, is the military. Rather the Ministry of Defence and Urban Development, to give the money-guzzling Behemoth its full title. Gotabhaya Rajapaksa’s fiefdom is to get Rs.290 billion out of a total estimated government expenditure of Rs.2520 billion – i.e. 11.5%. Health and Education will not get even half as much. When a Tamil youth failed to call a soldier on leave ‘sir’, the soldier regarded it as an unforgivable political solecism and assaulted the young man. Subsequently, an orgy of arson and looting was unleashed on the young man’s village. When the villagers went to the police, the police arrested two of the victims.
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