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Ranil resurrects Rajapaksa rhetoric

Highlights of key speeches made in Parliament this week
Opposition Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe in Parliament

It was not the UNP that went abroad and complained against the country. It was the present President Mahinda Rajapaksa who in 1990 went and complained against the UNP government.


Ranil Wickremesinghe

This is what Mr. Rajapaksa said at that time. I am quoting him: “We have asked that the United Nations Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances and Amnesty International be allowed into the country.

I appeal to you to allow these organisations to come into the country and inquire into matters here. We did not ask other countries to stop assistance to Sri Lankan but what we asked is why a condition cannot be imposed tying the human rights issue to aid. If this government is going to deprive the people of their human rights, I will not only go to Geneva but even to hell to work against the government.”

These were the words of the President then. But we did not call him a traitor. We went and explained what the government’s position was. Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva was also there. We went and watched a cabaret together and had a good time.

 
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