Rajapaksa State Media’s Rajpal Abeynayake Confirms President’s Lie

February 20, 2014

The State run Daily News today confirmed that President Mahinda Rajapaksa had lied to the nation when he claimed on January 19 that there were only 12,000 troops in the Northern Province.

Rajpal Abeynayake, President Rajapaksa’s handpicked head of the State owned Daily News on February 14, published a graph on the front page of his newspaper that showed that there were at least 80,000 Army personnel in the Northern Province.

Speaking at the opening of the Tellippalai Trail Cancer Hospital in January this year President Rajapaksa made the extraordinary claim that there were only 12,000 troops remaining in the whole Northern Province. Within days of this statement his own Secretary, Lalith Weeratunge told a diplomatic gathering in Geneva that there has been a decrease of 30 percent of the Army in the North from a peak of 120,000 to the current level of 80,000 by October 2013.

President Rajapaksa’s number of 12,000 troops was inclusive of all security forces personnel while Lalith Weeratunge was only giving the number for the Army. The Colombo Telegraph on 23rd January 2014 pointed this glaring discrepancy.

It is unclear if Abeynayake realised that his graph detailing the real troop numbers would automatically make President Mahinda Rajapaksa out to be a liar.

Thondaman’s devil dance for win in Geneva!

 Thursday, 20 February 2014 

The Rajapaksa regime is now involved in a hilarious attempt by way of a ritual to defeat the proposal against Sri Lanka to be submitted at  the UNHRC in Geneva next month by the US-led western nations.

It is a devil dance Minister Arumugam Thondaman is organizing at his Kotagala home tomorrow (21), to be attended by president Mahinda Rajapaksa. Minister Thondaman’s closest female friend, Rupa Magandhi Ram Mohan of Hyderabad, has sent nine exorcists from Kerala state for the occasion.

There will also be more, in addition to this devil dance by the nine Indian exorcists to ‘save from Geneva’.

During the whole of next month, Bodhi Poojas as well will take place countrywide to defeat the ‘imperialistic conspiracy against Sri Lanka’, while ministers allied with the president will hold various rituals in their homes to win over the president.