Ranga Jayasuriya
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Millions of Sri Lankans may not like the sordid truth.
Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 is today paying for the collective sin of electing a man who literally had skeletons in the closet, ignoring his murderous past, and proudly identifying with his and his acolytes’ racist dog whistling .
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A corner shop owner in Balangoda who sold four eggs at Rs 65 each was fined Rs 500,000.
In the meanwhile, Rajapaksa allies of Pyramid Wilmar which profiteered Rs 16 billion from the sugar scam got away scot-free - Govt Audit Office recommended recovering loss from the importer
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Aragalaya gained widespread legitimacy not because of IUSF or Peratugamis, but because of a large swathe of
#SriLanka
middle class who joined and spearheaded it
Now they are gradually being disposed of the struggle by a minority who thrives in chaos.
Do not let that happen!
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Why is media hesitating to name the state minister who stormed Welikada and Anuradhapura prisons under influence of alcohol , and reportedly forced two LTTE suspects on their knees and threatened them at the point of gun?
What kind of servile journalism is that?
#SriLanka
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Go Gotagama protesters in Kandy are being attacked now. It seems like this is a well organized and state backed plot by the Rajapaksas to suppress peaceful public protests. The international community should take note.
#GotaGoHome2022
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Lanka IOC reported net profit of Rs.9.93 billion for the quarter ending June 2022
In the meanwhile, the State-owned CPC incurred a loss of Rs. 549 billion in the first four months of 2022.
Can someone explain how this level of inefficiency is humanly possible?
#SriLanka
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No offense, but these two brothers wrecked the Sri Lankan economy in a way that Prabakaran could not do for over two decades .
They would have been in jail in any country where accountability matters.
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If folks who are so worried about missing items from the Temple trees and President House, extended a fraction of that concern when billions were robbed from the country by the politicians and their cronies ,
#SriLanka
would not be in this mess in the first place.
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In January the government paid a sovereign bond of $ 500 m against all advice and emptied the foreign reserves.
Now the country is in dark and economy in standstill not being able to pay for fuel imports.
This is not just mismanagement, this is criminal.
#SriLanka
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#Bangladesh
has officially asked IMF for a bailout today; still, the country has US 40 b in foreign reserves, enough for five months of imports.
Whereas the Rajapaksas of
#SriLanka
vacillated to do so till the foreign reserves hit zero.
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The total tourist arrival in
#SriLanka
for last 30 days ( month of September) was 29,000 .
Kind a confused as to how 200,000 foreign tourists visited Lotus Tower during the corresponding period .
Can someone explain pls?
Over 200,000 foreign tourists visited Lotus Tower Colombo within last 30 days, earning over Rs.100 million turnover.
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Former CID sub inspector RSM Mendis tells Gampaha magistrate that CCD pressured him to frame DIG Shani Abeysekara that the latter planted weapons at Vas Gunawardene's house, Daily mirror reports
#Witchhunt
explodes on the face right before election.
#SriLanka
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For all those fellas who spew homophobia at the sight of this photo and folks who don't want 'Aragalaya' to be representative of LGBT rights , it is simple: If you are not yet ready to respect the other's personal choice, you are not ready for democracy. Stick with Gotabaya
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Sri Lanka stooped to a place where we had to rely on a mere $10 million from WB to buy urgent medical supplies. The Rajapaksas 10% commission from most multi-million loan funded, mostly vestige, development projects was manyfold of that number.
What a tragedy!
#SriLankaCrisis
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I can't understand the logic of
@GotabayaR
fleeing from one country to another, while the Rajapaksas are back in power in
#SriLanka
through proxy.
Have they thrown him under the bus, which is unlikely because Rajapaksas valued the family over the country?
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Remembering the dead, no matter which side they were in the war, is not a crime, but a human right.
This photo is a portrayal of arrogance and petty minded of the govt and security apparatus.
Preventing 70 year old mothers from lighting a candle is self defeating lunacy
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I think it is a serious blunder on the part of Gotabaya R to appoint this dude as a director of SriLanka tourism.
As long as he caters to the usual local fools , that is fine, but this one is a bit too much and the UAE embassy has issued a clarification.
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Can someone please tell me as to how an all-party government is possible with Dinesh Gunawardene, a Rajapaksa acolyte as PM and Ranil, at the mercy of Pohottuwa, as President?
Have no misgivings; this is Rajapaksa rule by proxy.
#SriLanka
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Let’s be honest:
@GotabayaR
, elected by 6.9 M votes, exercised commendable amount of restraint towards protesters.
If he choose violence there would have been a blood bath.
Ranil, an imposter,elected by Parliament out of touch with public, is risking a blood bath
#SriLanka
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What we are seeing is not just the collapse of the economy, but the collapse of the entire Sri Lankan state on all its flanks.
Why is
@GotabayaR
doing this to our country?
#SriLankaEconomicCrisis
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Six areas in Colombo under police curfew. Govt chief epidemiologist warns Covid-19 virus has already spread to 13 districts.
In the meantime, the government is debating and rushing through 20th amendment.
Simply pathetic
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This tweet tells it all:
A government that delayed the purchase of COVID vaccine, didn’t provide internet to school teachers & could not even subsidize a tab for school children, all ostensibly due to lack of money, still has 4 billion rupees to buy SUV for MPs to use.
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A Turkish journalist is facing imprisonment over allegedly insulting the country’s president by citing a proverb on live TV : “When the bull enters the palace, he does not become a king. But the palace becomes a barn”
Can’t help but appreciate the universal truth
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Sheltering Rajapaksas in the Trinco Naval camp is one thing , but Sri Lanka Navy or any other branch of security forces should not let or facilitate the Rajapaksas fleeing from the country.
That would be the last straw that break the public order and it would get very ugly .
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I do not believe the police fired live ammunition at protesters without direct orders/ or approval from not just police higherups, also the political leadership.
But,
@GotabayaR
is miscalculating public mood, if he thinks he could do a replay of Rathupaswala
#SriLankaCrisis
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Gotabaya is back in the Country.
Basil R is granted permission to travel abroad.
All regime is back in power by proxy.
Don't be surprised, if Gota is appointed Prime Minister to redeem the Rajapaksas.
#SriLanka
is yet again subordinated to the personal whims of Rajapaksa
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This govt made an ass of itself with whole Muslim COVID burial thing, Dammika Peniya and the handling of the second wave. Now it has opportunity to end at least the mess over the burial & focus on the real matters. But it keeps digging deeper into the hole it put itself in. Sad.
කමිටුව මොකක් නිර්දේශ කළත්
භූමදානය කරනවාද ආදාහනය කරනවාද කියලා
තීරණය කරන්නේ අපි...!
Credits - Headline News
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During the height of the economic collapse of Venezuela, the Caracas stock exchange was trading through the roof and was one of the best performing in the world. This happens when a small cartel controls and manipulates the market. Sri Lanka is no different.
#SriLanka
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So Basil Rajapaksa would resign as Member of Parliament and go back to USA.
If one can getaway that easily after all the corruption and mismanagement, the whole idea of accountability is a bloody joke in Sri Lanka.
#SriLankaEconomicCrisis
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Can the govt please share the list of bond holders paid in the January $ 500 m payment so that we can have a look during these long power cuts ?
@an_cabraal
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A new brand of Sinophobia is in the town.
A posh , literati one of Colombo centric English speaking elites who have taken a sudden interest in
#SriLanka
’s sovereignty.
Honestly, I don’t see it selling to the masses. Funny enough It might have the opposite effect though.
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Makandure Madhush might not be missed.
But when a suspect repatriated from a foreign country (Dubai) is killed, it makes things harder for local authorities to secure cooperation from foreign counterparts.
It will affect future repatriation requests.
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A man was shot dead in Kolonnawa today (30th) by unidentified motorcycle gunmen.
At least 10 individuals have been killed in a similar manner by the unidentified motorcycle gunmen in separate incidents within a month.
Who are these gunmen and who are the victims?(1)
#SriLanka
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In howmany countries in the West-France, Belgium, Germany etc.
- is this possible? The biggest strength in fighting islamic extremism in
#SriLanka
is SriLankan muslim community itself.
#SriLanka
#SriLanka
Muslim neighbors and local cleric tipped off police about IS hideout in Eastern Lanka via
@newsin_asia
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A better option would be to regulate Madarasas, asked them to teach the same curriculum as gvt schools and have religious syllabus vetted by traditional lslamic clergy. Close down those dont comply
#srilanka
Ban Madarasa Islamic Schools: CBK
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Tragedy and farce: an Interpol Red notice issued fugitive is now running tourism strategy while this man who represented legal challenge to the constitutional coup is in now behind bars.
Hejaaz arriving at court.. in a very different way from what he's used to.
An officer of the court who has not committed a crime, now in handcuffs.
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Ranil Wickremesinghe is going to extremes that even Gota didn’t in order to cling onto power.
His actions are feeding into public anger and would provoke reaction.
Beware , when the push back comes from people, it would also be a lot harder
#SriLanka
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Food for thought: When Saudi Arabia was facing a hefty budget deficit, the crown prince rounded up wheeler-dealing relatives who made a fortune through corrupt deals & made them cough up $ 60 billions in exchange for freedom.
Gota can surely make family cough up a few billion
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa instructs CBSL Governor & relevant authorities to use available funds to import fuel immediately.
- PMD
#lka
#SriLankaCrisis
#SriLankaEconomicCrisis
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These politically patronised crooks robbed LKR 11,145 million, according to a presidential inquiry.
AND they are released over a technicality.
Is this sheer incompetency of AG's dept
or
premeditated to let the accused get away scot-free
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Why is this fellow Roshan Ranasinghe telling is life story in Parliament now while the country is on fire?
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The Govt has informed JICA that it would not proceed with Colombo light rail for next 5 years. Why is
#SriLanka
building white elephants while ignoring projects that are economically viable and a catalyst of growth?
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Sudarshani Fernandupulle is the real deal, a specialist doctor qualified to make decisions on an on-going medical contingency.
But it is these Rajapaksas’ pet poodles who bark loudest.
How can a country fight COVID when politicians and military men decide COVID policy?
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By desperately clinging to power and delegitimizing protestors, Gota and MR show all they care about is the interests of the Rajapaksa family even at the gravest danger to the country at large. This is the true nature of every tinpot despot, from Sadam to Gaddafi.
#GotaGoHome
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With the prorogation of Parliament, select committees, including COPE and COPA would cease to exist.
COPE investigations into LITRO gas purchases at inflated prices, SriLankan, and CEB might well end up in the dustbin
#SriLanka
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Protesters will pay the damage after
@GotabayaR
pays compensations to farmers destituted by the ban on chemical fertilizer and
@PresRajapaksa
pays up the US$ 1 billion loss of SriLankan airlines since its takeover and cost of many vesitage projects funded by loans.
Protesters have to pay for damages caused to Galle Face Green
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Gotabaya R should be in jail, if nothing else , for the decimation of agriculture & public finances (with tax cuts to goons)
There are international precedents to do this.
But,when it comes to holding the powerful accountable,
#SriLanka
has fostered a culture of impunity .
Gotabaya Rajapaksha should be the Mayor of Colombo, and take on some beautifying projects and serve the people. That’s the post which suits him.
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This is a bad joke and the joke is on the people. Invest on PCR tests, expand testing capacity and bring Rapid test kits. Instead this.
Eyes in the Sky - Sri Lanka Air Force operation to monitor quarantine violators
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TV media coverage is disgusting and I feel a collective shame as a journalist.
But most folks who now self righteously complain about it were nodding in agreement when the same media dog whistled at the Muslims and violated privacy of most previous COvid patients.
"Respect privacy of coronavirus infected patients" Defence Ministry requests Media
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Imposing curfew in WP is counter productive, and is a dangerous gamble by
@RW_UNP
.
If he thinks to hang on to power, hiding behind police and military ,
@GotabayaR
tried that failed.
Ranil should not test public patience.
#SriLanka
might have a Ceausescu moment in store
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Mahanayakas and monks should tell Mahinda Rajapaksa not to misappropriate religion yet again to save his skin.
This is not new though, because the Rajapaksas have been exploiting and weaponising Buddhism all these years to advance their petty political interests.
#GoHomeMahinda
Pirith is being said loudly in front of Temple Trees so that the voices of the protesters cannot be heard.
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And I must say
@FT_SriLanka
stood tall among our newspapers in their objective reporting of this whole crisis during past 3 weeks. hats off!!
Speaker stands tall in Parliament
#lka
@ParliamentLK
#ConstitutionalCrisisSriLanka
@FT_SriLanka
@PresRajapaksa
@MaithripalaS
@RW_UNP
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Australians decisively defeated a referendum to recognize the First Nation people in their constitution -a very nominal accommodation .
What trouble me most is these are the countries which think they are fit enough to lecture us on devolution
#AustraliaVotes
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CID told the presidential commission probing easter Sunday attacks, today that 4 suspects arrested in a Wanathavilluwa estate with explosives were released & investigations concluded prematurely on the insistence of
@MaithripalaS
. ...
#eastersundayattacks
#LkA
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Former IGP Jayasundara also said ’that Abdul Latif Jameel Mohammed, who blasted himself at Tropical Inn Lodge, had met intelligence officers 45 minutes before he blew himself.’
This is a totally new twist. Wonder why it was relagated to tail of news?
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#SriLanka
Telecom and Sri Lanka Insurance (SLIC) are among the SOEs the president named for privatization.
SLT has a post-tax profit of Rs 12.2 billion and SLIC , 1.2 b in 2021.
Govt should privatise loss-making SOEs.
Instead,this could end up being a ploy to reward cronies
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It seems
@sajithpremadasa
is positioned to win the North East with a higher margin than Maithri did. A pleasant surprise. However, the acid test is how he fairs in the South.
#LKA
#PresidentialElection2019
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Hurray the monks , or any clergy for that matter, who want to dictate terms to the government is a monumental stupidity, no matter how much you dislike this government. These political monks are big part of the problem and not the solution
We are ready to take to the streets and liberate this country by uniting the five great forces. Don't allow red light to be issued anymore- Warning from Murutthettuwe Ananda Thero
#Lka
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The government of
#SriLanka
is resorting to infamous white van abductions as the latest strategy to suppress peaceful protests
A student activist of Ruhunu university was abducted today, according a complaint to Human Rights commission.
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This is absolute garbage, relying on a statement of a bogus asylum seeker who would, like the rest, cook up any to make an asylum claim look credible. The greatest affront, however, is to the victims of Easter Sunday.
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It's heart-rending to see the plight of the farmers.
The president decimated the entire farming sector &now the government has opened floodgates for duty-free imported potatoes/onions.
These are not just stupid decisions, these are a crime upon the nation
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Her misguided policies did the greatest damage to the Sri Lankan economy , only second to Velupillai Prabakaran and LTTE terrorism. I can not understand naive appreciation of her legacy when she , more than anyone else, ripped the country of its economic potential.
When I wanted to nationalized Ceylon Petroleum,
@WorldBank
threatened us with stoping aid to Sri Lanka, but that didn’t frighten me, I went ahead. Aha..
-Sirimovo Bandaranaike-
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Also the
@officialunp
should grab this opening, reorganize at the grassroots, build a mass movement with minority parties and prepare for any eventuality. It was civic activism and the judiciary that saved the country for the timebeing , no such laurels to rest for the UNP
All the parliamentary parties in the majority against the coup and the Speaker must act now to recall Parliament tomorrow and have immediate floor test. No time to rest on (interim) laurels. You have to seize the initiative or the power grabbers will recoup (pun intended!).
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An Inmate was allegedly beaten to death by an overseer at the Military run Kandakadu rehabilitation facility leading to an uprising by inmates & attempted escape.
@RW_UNP
, Wijedasa R order an independent investigation into the circumstance of the death. The World is watching.
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Gotabaya Rajapaksa ruined the Sri Lankan economy , plunging 3 million families into poverty.
Now the public has to spend 1.3 million Rupees monthly as his remuneration and facilities , according to information revealed under Right to Information Act.
#SriLanka
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Port workers are threatening to hold the country for ransom over the income tax revision.
In any strike, RW should use the army to run port operations and any act of sabotage should be dealt with in the full course of law.
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In a country there are prisoners languishing in jail for decades under PTA without being charged, the president some how pardoned a convicted murder for a second time.
Now make him the minister of narcotics .
What a shame
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So much for media circus about an increase in foreign reserves due to $ 1.5b yuan swap .
When did borrowing to prop up reserves become a cause for celebration ?
#SriLanka
economy is increasing resembling an wheeler dealer enterprise true to the wheeler dealers who run it.
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There is a lot of sour grapes in echo chambers, incl.
#lka
Twitter after SLPP landslide
#LKAElections2020
SLPP is not my cup of tea, but conceding defeat after a fair flight is a prerequisite of democracy.
If you still disparage the majority verdict, that makes you a hypocrite
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The lynching murder of a Sri Lankan man ,as grotesque as it was, cannot be discussed in isolation of mainstream extremism in
#Pakistan
.
Successive govts have pandered to it . Army has fostered it .
Pakistanis, at least its moderate lot, are the main victim .
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I cannot think a better way to summarize the govt’s two years in two minutes than this video
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Those who think NPP/JVP has solutions to the current economic crisis are the same folks who thought Gota the resurrection of Lee Kuan Yew.
Sri Lankans never learn, and this one, if ever happens, is going to be a very hard lesson, worse than Gota.
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I kept away from expressing myself for I am distraught & have no words to express the hopelessness
But it seems my worst fears were tad lame .
@GotabayaR
did not only make the country bankrupt , he is turning it into a dictatorship
We are at the cusp of 1987-89
#SriLanka
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Here
@sajithpremadasa
talks a lot of sense and pertinent observation: ”racism and islamobophia were dragged into covid 19 response to aid the government election campaign”
Opposition Leader
@sajithpremadasa
questions Health Min over the delay in allowing Muslims to bury
#COVID19SL
victims. Says when 194 countries doing it, WHO endorsing it why can't
#SriLanka
. Further says govt shud talk to Min. Ali Sabry who also has called fr it over a FB post
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A real leader might have addressed the nation, explain the circumstances of
@GotabayaR
‘s fleeing, promise to initiate extradition procedures and call for calm, instead
@RW_UNP
announced a curfew first thing in the office.
#SriLanka
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Public servants take oaths to implement President’s manifesto.
While sycophantic gestures won’t necessarily make govt service efficient, this hand sign itself is much loathed and echoes a dark era of human history.
That ignorance or insensitivity tells a lot !
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Rather than clamouring as if every flight that landed in Mattala
@MRIALK
is a gravity defining achievement, imagine the wide range of economic benefit
#SriLanka
would have if US$ 225 million wasted on this white elephant is spent on a second terminal at BIA.
#lka
Antonov An-124, the world’s 2nd largest cargo aircraft landed at the Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport (MRIA) on Friday. The purpose of the flight was to rest 13 crew members & to obtain technical assistance. The aircraft arrived from Johannesburg.
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Muslim governers having to resign in the face of fasting monks is not nice. But in any other country they might have resigned when their complicity with islamic extremism was revealed. Prez/PM should have asked their resignation before monks took over the campaign
#SriLanka
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In Sri Lanka, ministers do everything except running their ministries efficiently. Money spent on merrymaking in Tokyo by 4 state ministers could have easily bought official clothing for the Sri Lankan Olympic squad. This is also microscopic of the abysmal way sports is run here
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Railway, SLTB, CEB are national burdens, not assets; huge black holes of public funds & emblems of inefficiency.
Why can not
#SriLanka
sell a stake of these to Japan, China or India (not to another local crook)?
We neither have the expertise, nor money to run them
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Prez Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s ego is bigger than his ignorance.
Though that might fit in perfectly with most Third world rulers in normal times, ego filled ignorance in mishandling delta variant has become a death sentence to many 🇱🇰 people
It’s a crime.
Let experts handle!
In a discussion held with President
@GotabayaR
a short while ago over the present health crisis, it has been decided NOT to impose a lockdown but certain restrictions over weddings, gatherings will come into effect.
#SriLanka
#COVID19SL
#COVID19
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The Cabinet resigning but
@PresRajapaksa
remaining as prime minister and
@GotabayaR
as president is a sick joke
Their family cabal turned
#SriLanka
into their personal fiefdom, and looted it.
They should go and be held accountable for the ruin of the nation
#GotaGoHome2022
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These power cuts are an extreme manifestation of the mishandling of forex crisis. This is a complete collapse of economy.
When you don’t have $ to pay for oil to run power plants , but insist that there is no economic crisis, either you are deluded or a dangerous conman.
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So these folks freely, and voluntarily walk through the security corridor and gave flowers to president and prime minister.
How romantic ?
🤣🤣🤣
I know where not to buy flowers from next time 😂🤢
These people are a huge part of the reason we are where we are.
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India landed in the South Pole of the moon in a mission that cost barely US$75 million. Mahinda Rajapaksa spent 210 million to build an airport in the jungle where no plane lands.
#IndiaOnTheMoon
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@GotabayaR
now wants to apply for the US green card by virtue of his wife being a US citizen and plans to settle down there.
As the president , he deprived SriLanka US 480 million of the US Millennium challenge grant resorting to all the conspiracy theories.
What a hypocrite !
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Why are people so offended as if RW telling an MP disrupting his speech to shut up and sit down was the worst thing that happened in the parliamentary democracy of this country?
#SriLanka
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#SriLanka
@RW_UNP
has unleashed a full-blown witch-hunt against the protesters: So far, 3353 activists have been arrested and 1255 still remain in remand custody under the flimsiest of charges.
31 activists were arrested Yesterday ( 21st), 6 were remanded.
@MaryLawlorhrds
I'm deeply concerned that Human Rights Defenders Wasantha Mudalige, Hashan Jeevantha & Galwewa Siridamma Himi have been arrested under the
#SriLanka
's Prevention of Terrorism Act. I call on President Ranil not to sign their detention order, doing so would be a dark day for 🇱🇰.
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So Ranjan Ramanayake was sentenced to 4 years in prison for telling in 2017 that a majority of judges are corrupt -- and by doing so undermining public trust in courts.
He does not need to, the 20th amendment does that .
This over the top sentence is a yet another vindication.
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The Maldives is trying to send a message to the international community that they are returning to the fold of the democratic world. They surely don't want to be seen with our clowns.
@MaithripalaS
@PresRajapaksa
are snubbed by the closest neighbors, this is only the beginning
Further proof that international community is not bothered to give recognition to Sirisena's unconstitutional government.
CBK is in front row with world leaders while so-called "Foreign Minister" Amunugama along with Faizer, Namal sent to back rows in
#Maldives
Prez inauguration
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If
@MaithripalaS
has confidence his prime minister appointee
@PresRajapaksa
has majority in Parliament, there is no reason to prorogue Parliament. We will see a lot of expensive cross overs paid from wheeler dealer money if this constitutional coup to be successful.
#srilanka
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It took only a week (& one man's greed to seek a second term) for this country to reduce to a banana republic. I dread to see where this country would be in six month if this coup succeeds.
#lka
#ConstitutionalCrisisSriLanka
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Watching on TV the flimsy arguments against the Millennium Challenge Grant by the head of the committee appointed by prez
@GotabayaR
, a Colombo uni prof , I asked myself what kind of half baked clowns r masquerading as intelligentsia in this country
#lka
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The National Operations Centre for Prevention of COVID-19 Outbreak (NOCPCO) has now been converted to Operation Center for Green Agriculture effective today
I used to think this level of absurdity is only possible in magic realism 😄
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There was a flood of righteous angest in
#lka
twitter over the burning of the Jaffna library on its 39 th anniversary. Then there was a lone tweet on the massacre of monks in Aranthalawa on this day in 1987.
Your selective outrage makes you a
#hypocrite
!
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I have reservations about
@RW_UNP
, but today in his first day in new Parliament, he called spade a spade , exposing the folly of having an army commander as head of COVID task force.
It was a very blunt assessment.
Didn’t see any
@sjbsrilanka
new gen MPs having that before
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Wrong!
Defense spending in 2022 was 1.4 % of GDP.
Post 2009,
#SriLanka
spends less than 2% of GDP on defence, i.e below the South Asian and global average .
Be careful when quoting reports by LTTE fronts without fact checking 😉
Sri Lanka is one of the most militarized countries in the world & spent 7% of GDP on Defense, 5% on Health & 4% on Education in 2022. There are 1.5 solder for every 100 citizens. A 2017 report by ACPR & PEARL found that there was at least 1 soldier for 2 civilians in Mullaitivu
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