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Sri Lanka: One Island Two Nations
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?????????????????????????????????????????????????Thursday, May 4, 2017
Ex-President’s security reduced-MR: ‘My life is in danger’
42 policemen removed with immediate effect
By Norman Palihawadena and Harischandra Gunaratne-May 3, 2017, 12:00 pm
The government has reduced former President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s security
with immediate effect. About 42 police personnel including an Assistant
Superintendent of Police attached to his security contingent have been
withdrawn.
Rajapaksa, asked for comment, confirmed that 42 police personnel
detailed to protect him had been removed. He said he had threats to his
life as the wartime president with many hardcore LTTE carders being
still at large. "My life is in danger," he said, "some government
members have also threatened to hang me," he said.
Asked why his security had been reduced, the former President said he
thought the government had sought to curtail his movements in the wake
of the Joint Opposition’s successful May Day rally. "The government is
mistaken if it thinks it can frighten me into submission by exposing me
to danger," Rajapaksa said. "Having realised that the days of their
government are numbered, they are all out to stop me and the JO even by
exposing my life to danger."
Asked what he was planning to do, the former President said he saw no
point in complaining to anyone in authority as the government controlled
all state institutions and officials. He said the issue would be raised
in Parliament.
All our efforts to contact Police Spokesman DIG Priyantha Jayakody were in vain last night as he did not answer his phone.
Defence Secretary Karunasena Hettiarachchi, when he was asked whether he
was aware that the former President’s had been further reduced,
answered in the affirmative. However, he said the provision of VIP
security came under the purview of the Law and Order Ministry.