Parliamentarian Namal Rajapaksa is coming under increasing pressure from the FCID, this time over the controversial multi-million dollar Krrish deal. Namal, who was summoned to the FCID on Thursday, was interrogated for several hours where he was accused of pocketing between Rs. 70 to 100 million from the deal.
Namal Rajapaksa
Speaking to reporters, Namal, the eldest son of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa said, “today they have found a new issue. First it was about a murder, then it was about money laundering, and now they are questioning me about a certain company that sponsored the Carlton rugby super sevens tournament,” he said.
He however did not explicitly mention the FCID grilled him over the Krrish deal. “They didn’t even know the exact amount; they asked if I had taken money, somewhere between 70 to 100 million. I told them I never did any such thing,” he added.
The US$ 650 million Krrish Tower project which was initiated during former President Rajapaksa’s period has been marred with controversy with allegations of secret payoffs to several VIPs in the country at that time.
Incidentally the drafting of the agreement was reportedly taken over by N R Associates, the legal firm owned by Namal Rajapaksa.
Before coming to power, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was very vociferous about the controversial project and the alleged corruption hovering over the project. At that time he also openly claimed that Namal Rajapaksa was to receive a commission from the deal. Wickremesinghe has however been very silent about the matter since coming to power.
In 2013, Harsha de Silva, the current deputy foreign minister and the UNP spokesman on economic affairs in a column written to the Colombo Telegraph said that it appeared as if the entire project was a hoax and that Parliament was misled both by the minister and the investor. “We demand that the massive tax breaks granted to this investor be cancelled immediately and an impartial investigation be launched in to what exactly happened. The investigation must find out who were behind this transaction and blacklist all such persons so that hereafter Parliament will not be duped by such fly-by-night operators with connections to high places,” he said.
thrishu / March 19, 2016
The whole family is made up of crooks. They have siphoned all the money that should have ploughed back to improve the life of common people, the citizens that voted this scum into power. Disgrace, such a disgrace, we have not seen or heard anything of this such mega-scale of fraudulence and embezzlement taken place anywhere in the world before. This family has really made fools of those that supported them.
I just hope that if there is justice ever, then it should find these targets, otherwise we won’t even be able to place our trust on natural justice. People like RW, WR should get out of the way from blocking, and let independent courts and law enforcers deal with these parasites.
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Samuel Jayaweera / March 19, 2016
My worry is whether the current rulers have the capacity to prove the gravity of the abuses carried out by Rajaakshe kith and kin.
If they would not, people will get caught by Rajapakshes again. Journos still seem to be stand still to react against Rajaakshes. I dont get to read enough journalists reporting about all the mess carried out by Rajpakshes. No blunt questions have been passed to Rajaakshes.
Did you yet happend to watch program – where MR was questioned about highprofile money grabs … by any journalist ?
For some reasons that have been lagged.
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Native Vedda / March 19, 2016
Samuel Jayaweera
“My worry is whether the current rulers have the capacity to prove the gravity of the abuses carried out by Rajaakshe kith and kin. “
Is there anyway we could reignite the feud between Namal and Basil, over accumulated wealth?
We need flammable material, right amount of air, and right person to blow it, the fire is already simmering deep in MR’s family.
This is the third option in Indian “Sama, Dana, Behda and Danda” diplomatic approach to naughty boys/families.
Sama: Peaceful & Conciliation
Dana: Gift,Sacrifice or generosity
Behda: Intentionally creating a division or misunderstanding.
Danda: Use the stick (herding them to the courts)
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sekara / March 19, 2016
Why mince words?
I think that the order is as follows.
saama: friendly negotiation
bedha: public dispute
dhaana: bribe
dhanda: punish
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sekara / March 19, 2016
Sorry
The order is
saama: friendly negotiation
dhaana: bribe
bedha: public dispute
dhanda: punish
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Native Vedda / March 19, 2016
sekara
Excerpts from
One Hundred Years of Kautilya’s Arthasastra
P.K.Gautam
1.”U”- Four Upayas (4)102
The four upayas or approaches, expedient, device, ways of
realising aim or object of diplomacy exist since the period of
the epics and Dharmasastra.
The upayas are sama-dana-bheda- danda meaning conciliation, gifts, rupture and force.
Means of overcoming opposition is based on overlapping in four upayas
and six gunas.
R.P. Kangle simplifies it when he says that gunas
are concerned with foreign policy alone (see the paragraph 3 on
Sadgunya given below), but upayas have a wider application, being
useful in securing the submission of anyone.
http://indianstrategicknowledgeonline.com/
web/monograph20.pdf
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Dr.Rajasingham Narendran / March 20, 2016
NV and Sekera,
Is the word ‘Samadhanam’ in Tamil a combination of Sama & Dhana – meaning ‘Peaceful reconciliation’? Do we have to give gifts/bribes to bring about reconciliation? Who should be the recipients? If these fail, who should we divide and punish?
Dr.RN
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sekara / March 20, 2016
Bribery is not much younger than private property.
You are right to say that the Upayas need not be confined to foreign policy.
Statecraft is about dealing with internal enemies and potential rivals a well. Bribery has a big role there.
I doubt the analysis of “samadhaanam” as saama + dhaana.
It is samaa rather than saama in samaadhaanam.
Kindly check the Skt spelling of Dhaana in the two contexts.
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Dr.Rajasingham Narendran / March 20, 2016
Sekara,’
The Tamil word if phonetically spelled in English would be ‘Sammathaanam’. Thaanam in Tamil means giving.
The word Samma in Tamil is also used in the context of a meeting to discuss a topic. I was obviously not paying attentions to the phonetics, when I spelt the word in English. It was obviously an error. However, even when phonetically corrected, the meaning amounts to ‘ meeting to give’ or ‘meeting to discuss and give’.
I raised the issue to point out that the word ‘ Sammathaanam’ which means peace today, may have wider connotations than we attribute to it.
Thanks for your response.
Dr.RN
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sekara / March 20, 2016
There is only one m in the word Samaathaanam, meaning peace. (It could be a typo.)
Sama for equal
Saama for peace
I cannot comment on the thaanam ambiguity yet.
I hope that I have helped to clarify.
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Srilal / March 19, 2016
Any body remember Sunday Leader female journalist ” Manadana Ismail’s house break in the wee hours of 2013 ? ” start to solve the mystery from back to front . who broke in to Mandana’s house and why ? it has been reported that Mandana had got hold of an important document of Krrish deal which was between Namal and Krrish ;thus, Namal had swiftly dispatched his murder squad to snatch the document from Mandana . here is the relevant reporting from CT itself.
https://www.colombotelegraph.com/index.php/mandana-and-a-contract-gone-awry/
Didn’t Nalaka Godahewa ask the Krrish company to finalize all the necessary legal work with so called NR associates , didn’t Nalaka Godahewa ask Krrish to deposit US $ 3.5 Million in to Namal’s HSBC bank account in Singapore ?didn’t Harsha desilva expose this day light robbery ? remember that infamous NG’ SMS message which circulated among the elites ?
As usual this is yet another Mafia family scandals which resulted getting killed one of their criminals , best way to resolve the murder case is , check the phone details of NR and the criminals on that fateful day , this would reveal a whole lot about the actual operation.
Why Harsha keeping a deafening silence over this issue is puzzling ! honestly , i don’t know who to believe , are we the dumb asses ?
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CHANAKYAN / March 20, 2016
So long as an INDICTMENT IS NOT SERVED Namal is entitled to the presumption that he is innocent.
The fault dear thrishu is not with Namal but with the government which is very very weak.
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thrishu / March 20, 2016
So the criminal is faultless and could whatever he wants,if the coppers were spineless? Is that what great Chanakya taught the mankind? Time for a name change, me think!
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CHANAKYAN / March 20, 2016
The sly hit has gone over your head.
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thrishu / March 21, 2016
Not even a good cricketer? Bowl straight; no need to be sly and lose your points. LOL!
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Wera / March 19, 2016
“today they have found a new issue. First it was about a murder, then it was about money laundering, and now they are questioning me about a certain company that sponsored the Carlton rugby super sevens tournament,” he said.” Yes putha they will keep on finding new issues. Do you know why? Because your were involved in every single one of them. No one wants to investigate you or your papa or your mama. Look at how lethargic they are. If they could sing kumbaya and forget the whole sordid mess they would. But we the people wont let them. The lethargy of these politicians who were very vocal about certain deals is astounding. This Krrish deal as Harsha once claimed was a mega scam. Investigating it and revealing the details of it will probably make global headlines. But it has taken this long for them to even make a start.
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Point of View / March 19, 2016
Totally agree Wera. Our patience is running out with MS & RW only for this reason.
BTW, don’t insult your own ”Putha’ by calling this scumbag, ‘Putha’ !
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rew / March 19, 2016
RW and all of them are great pretenders. MR is no better.
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John / March 19, 2016
Then it may be deduced the present top guys are involved too?!
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Bandara / March 19, 2016
in spite of all the usual suspects being “questioned” ad nauseum by the various investigative agencies, the (what is now perceived as) token arrests and temporary incarceration followed by release on bail, we have yet to see any of these offenders being found guilty and punished.
When will the Yahapalanaya forces of ‘law and order’ actually do what they are responsible for and stop taking us all who believed in MS, RW and Co, for the ride of our lives?
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Manel / March 19, 2016
This must be a big game they are playing with us. First the hue and cry, then the investigations and questioning, then the arrests, then MR making trips to prison to visit the criminals, then they sent home to their luxury and comforts, and the matter is then forgotten. We are being fooled again and again.
What happened to the Thajudeen investigation? It has not come to the arrest part of the game yet.
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Native Vedda / March 19, 2016
Manel
The first thing MR should do is to buy Namal a comb, failing Namal should be sent to Jaffna University, where the culture police is somewhat active.
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Upul / March 19, 2016
Why do you take such a long time dragging these people in and out and in and out? This shows that FCID is up to no good. If truthfully you wand to take these scum bags to justice, and lock them up, you have more than enough evidence now. There is some unknown,faithful arm to MR in this government who is pushing these investigations to the back burner. People are not stupid as you A../H…s think. Come on……. and show the general public that you are doing what they elected you to do. So, stop this BS and get to real work.
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Manel / March 19, 2016
It seems the young Rajapaksas have been behind many questionable companies involved in multi million dollar deals. This alone shows that they have abused their powers, and taken advantage of their father’s position in the country. How many companies have they been involved with, how much commission have they been paid, and where is all the money stashed? They came with NOTHING. So where did all the money to invest in these businesses come from? They lived lavish lifestyles, wore designer clothing, drove luxury cars worth thousands of dollars, so again, where did the money come from? This young pup is a big crook. Even his law degree seems to be obtained under deceptive means. They cannot be trusted. Every port, building, and bridge, they built must have made them rich. It is time the present government that seems to be shielding them, did the people a big service and looked for those riches. Obviously they have stashed away their ill gotten gains in places hard to find, and hard to trace. They are cunning, and will not have these riches in places easy to find.
They should be held accountable for fleecing the country, and made into examples for others.
For what they did to us, I hope they suffer and never have any peace. These politicians and their children are
a curse to our nation. They don’t care if the cost of living is rising, and that people are finding it hard to manage, or that they cannot afford basic necessities, all they care is getting those millions to fill their pockets, and live the good life. Shame on them all.
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Dr,Rajasingham Narendran / March 20, 2016
Manel,
The story of ‘Mihinair’ is interesting. It has been a burden on this country from its very inception. Why has it not been grounded yet and assets disposed to recoup losses or pay back its debts? Should there be prohibitions against Bank of Ceylon and People’s Bank lending loss making state institutions, under pressure? How are these banks declaring profits? Further, is the Lake House financially viable? I am aware that many cronies of the last government were provided a sinecure there.
The former Attorney General and his successor in an acting capacity were blamed for not prosecuting the political rogues. What is happening now? Sabotage was pronounced as a likely cause for the power failure? Now it seems that everything is wrong about the Electricity Board, despite the public being unconcienabky fleeced. The Electricity Board is the Shylock of our times!
Is this government short on talent and ability? Has it given courage to MR to claim that he can do better than this government, despite what we know he and his government did? Have our systems of public services totally failed and are now beyond repair?
It is time this government told us the truth. We have not heard the truth for decades now. I remember claims that Sri Lanka would be able to sell surplus electricity to India when the Mahaweli project was mooted. The Sirimavo government with Soviet technology, even brought up a barrel of crude oil from the Gulf of Mannar to baboozle us with the riches that await!
Dr.RN
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jim softy / March 19, 2016
I don’t think anything happens to Namal As FCID has the powers that any other police stations has and FCID is under the full control of Ranil.
Ranil and Mahinda Rajapakse have talekd over everything.
This is just a visit to say, I did not know anything.
So, the case is closed.
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Upul / March 19, 2016
Why do you take such a long time dragging these people in and out and in and out? This shows that FCID is up to no good. If truthfully you want to take these scum bags to justice, and lock them up, you have more than enough evidence now. There is some unknown,faithful arm to MR in this government who is pushing these investigations to the back burner. People are not stupid as you A../H…s think. Come on……. and show the general public that you are doing what they elected you to do. So, stop this BS and get to real work.
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Backlash / March 19, 2016
Krrish is not one of the frontline building companies in India. It is one of those dubious outfits that has a particular eye for venal leaders within India and in the Afro-Asian world. They probably came to the conclusion learning of the reputation of the Mahinda Rajapakse family in this regard is all too well known – within and outside the island. Many suspect Krrish’s plans were to get hold of some of the bigger crooks at the top of the Rajapakse political ladder in their thumb. Thereafter, to use the Rajapakse influences to use the liquidity of the State banks to fund the bulk of the investment. The conspiracy also includes the plan to lure unsuspecting high-end local millionaires, Corporate clients and foreigners to buy in this “fantastic project” in a 1st class location in the heart of Colombo. It is learnt Krrish has brought in less than 10% of the value of the Project so far, whereas the initial requirement was 20% within 90 days from the date of signing the Contract. If the letter of the agreement is to be applied, this deposit should have been forfeited long ago. But they know if the Rajapakses are out of power the successors will be equally vulnerable – in the established greed and thieving reputation of Lankan politicians – blue, red or green. And so, they ride on.
Once again you have been subject to shame, dear Sri Lanka – Yahapaalanya or whatever.
Backlash
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Nuwan / March 19, 2016
Hurray! Hurray! Hurray!
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Peace Lover / March 19, 2016
oh this fellow Ranil is a real spineless joker,either he takes action or just need to keep quiet
also no point to keep harping that MR did that and MR did this unless you take action,if Ranil does not have the guts to do it he better retire
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Shrikharan / March 19, 2016
Peace Lover
” no point to keep harping that MR did that and MR did this unless you take action..”
You are absolutely right, if he did not take action on these serious charges that only means one thing, Rajapakse and his associates never did such a thing and what Rajapakse keeps telling that all these are all baseless accusations with intent of revenge is true.
Soon after the Presidential elections were over Ranil Wickremesinghe after he was appointed as Prime Minister came publicly on TV making a startling revelation that Rajapakse was involved in a ‘coup of sorts’ attempting make the election results null and void having summoned chief of the security forces and Police.
May I quote one classical example which raises doubts on the honesty of Ranil Wickremesinghe.
The people were quite surprised as public felt the President had vacated his official residence before the final results was released knowing he had lost the elections and that seemed to be a magnanimous gesture and now for Ranil to come out with the story of a supposed coup attempt was very confusing. But thereafter NO action was taken. It is a real serious charge in deed for Ranil to make in his official capacity as Prime Minister and then taking no action on someone he accused of deliberate attempt to steal the rights of all the people to elect their leader makes serious doubts on the very honesty of Ranil. Looks as if Rajapakse was right all along that it was a dirty attempt to discredit him and take political revenge on something he never did or thought of doing.
I still cannot understand, had if these serious allegation was made by an ordinary citizen like you and me we would have charged in courts and would have ended paying millions in damages and a compulsory jail sentence. I would never dare to accuse anyone unless I have a all the evidence before me and prepared to take it all the way through.
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Saman / March 19, 2016
Mahinda, his brothers, his three sons, his wife, his henchmen have stolen public money.
They all have committed numerous crimes.
Still this government is very slow.
They all must be brought to justice and incarcerated for life.
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wilmot Mather / March 19, 2016
The Rajapaksa family is the most corrupt family in SL– they can deny all they want but facts are stubborn. If they were honest as they claim to be, they should allow the Law to take its course which they didn’t allow when they were in power.
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Pygmalion / March 19, 2016
Like father,like son.
A son will have traits similar to his father upon reaching adulthood.
A apple does not fall far from the tree.
Chip off the old block!
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Brown Boy / March 19, 2016
Ok listen sonny. You can claim to be innocent, and that is your privilege, but you do understand why this keeps happening to you and your family right ? Wherever there is an investigation one or two of your family is involved. In this case your firm was involved in legal work. In the CSN money laundering case the company is registered to your address despite you claiming that your brother was not CEO. The land upon which the company was built was donated for the construction of a library I believe for your grandfather. MiG deals : it was your uncle who was in share of procurement. The countries finances swindled your dad was the Minister of Finance. Cmon batta, you can’t claim ignorance to all of this can you ? What were you guys doing ? Sleeping ????
And is there one single journalist in Sri Lanka who has a set of balls or a strong vagina to ask MR a straight up question ? He appears on all these TV shows as well as temples and not one journo has the eggs to questions him and hit him hard with blunt and brutally honest questions. What is this game ? It makes me believe that the questions on this programs have been screened and only then does the King Rogue decide to appear. Shame on all you for your lack professionalism. My three year old asks me better questions at home.
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senthil / March 19, 2016
Really what happened in the past in south and North, these politicians shout and abuse against each other in public meetings and so called supporters fight each other and die on the streets while those political opponents partying at big hotels. This is real – that is there game. RW, MR and others still friends and party outside politics while poor Modias fight each other. This old politicians RW ect. are not going to punish or get the stolen money back – we poor Lankans are waiting for the cotton fruit to ripe. We are born Modias. We have trusted them and supported for unwanted communal trouble(their political game) and drag us into war with Tamils(another game) and burned lot of money(tested others weapons on us) and now hatching for another war with poor Singhalese this time – you can call it Arab spring or modia spring – we will never learn or change or they will not allow us to change because they know we are born modias-God save up all.
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Dr.Rajasingham Narendran / March 19, 2016
So far, lots of foul smelling gas, but no feces! Time wasting trips to the toilet!
It is time MS and RW showed some tangible results on the MR government corruption and criminal front! I am tired of waiting. How long should we listen to MR and his government being accused of many things, without any convictions.’
In the meantime MR is being reinvented and re-marketed.
Dr.Rajasingham Narendran
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CHANAKYAN / March 20, 2016
Dr R N,
Investigation, arrest, remand, indictment, protracted trial and conviction if proved guilty.
What is seen is acquittal without a single step being taken. How sure M R was, that no action will ever be taken.
Once he swallows his enemies who have now turned benefactors, he will digest (guillotine)them in one go.
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Rohan / March 19, 2016
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Spring Koha / March 19, 2016
The boy king is a haunted, hunted man these days.
But he is tough as old boots. He is determined to play for time in the hope that Daddy will return to the throne and all worries will evaporate, and then he has promised himself that some big gonads will pay for the misery and anxiety that they are putting the once-first-family through.
Then the Paksa boys will, once again, play touch-rugby on the lawn and later sing ‘Happy Days are here again….’
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Patriot / March 19, 2016
Interesting the writer is bewildered why Ranil and Harsha who were vociferous before are silent now. Well Hello.. the Hindian tokka to Ranil and Harsha not to shame Indian Companies with corruption charges have worked. Now they have gone silent on top of that Ranil is going on all fours to China he will offer his posterior orifice too to the Chinese to get money. The Chinese have already told him in uncertain terms start the Port City project before you leave Sri Lanka and for stopping the work for a year add another 32 hectares extra to the reclamation. So Ravi K barks at the press briefing last week that the Environment Report has cleared the project for 265 acres not 233. Now it is long live China. By the way after the Lipton Circus of Ranil’s Septuagenarian young crowed who demanded not to stop the Mega Developments have had mild chest pains while watching the Mega crowd at the MR meeting at the Hyde Park.
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Douglas / March 19, 2016
Dr: Rajasingham: You say: “I am tired of waiting”. What do you think the people of Sri Lanka are feeling? They are tired and frustrated. This “Waiting game” and the “Drama of Investigations” will be dragged on until the MR camp and its rogues have completed their “Come Back” campaign that they started with the “Nugegoda Bring Back MR”. Now MR has come openly to join the “ROGUES” at Hyde Park and the next one is being organized. By the time MS & MR wake up from their deep sleep of sweet dreams, the “Disaster Waiting” would have happened. Just see the statement of this MP, Namal. The entire investigation process and the subject matters are RIDICULED and LAUGHED at. Those are the TACTICS adopted by the whole family who have robbed the National Wealth. Now the “BOSS” has come out with the army of ROUGES to conduct island wide rallies and we see the PEOPLE are falling a “PREY”. Who must be blamed for all that?
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Kumar R. / March 19, 2016
Douglas,
Rajasingham is just trying to pre-emptively wash his past dances of sins with the MR group, by now showing off as in the frontlines in criticizing MR.
Con men come in different shades and colour – principally the same trash!
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AduKuleyPaduS / March 19, 2016
Is Dr. Harsha De Silva quiet now because Ranil and he are now getting Krish love in way of commissions?
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Adrian / March 19, 2016
Very interesting comments. Do you all think that these mutts ever understand or bothered about these?
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A.D.J. Perera / March 20, 2016
Adrian,
To respond to you Mahinda, GR and BR are not competent to read material written in English. MR’s sons can read English but will not fully understand what they read. Queenie SR, being half-Burgher, can read
English but her IQ is like the readings of North Pole weather. To the entire gang applies that English saying “Ignorance is bliss”
A.D.J. Perera
Rajagiriya
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Upul / March 19, 2016
Aney Paw!
Thoththa Baba…
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Crazyoldmansl / March 19, 2016
BEWARE…The Mahinda Modi Nexus!!!
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Punchinilame / March 19, 2016
Tired of reading – Listen to this: The Educated section of the Island
had to say about our great Hyde-Park leader of the decade;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwFRgMySYBs (English)
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jay gunasekara / March 20, 2016
This is absurd to say the agreement was taken over by the Namal law firm.If there is no agreement on file the project is null and void.Tell the crooked Indian investor to go to hell.
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jay gunasekara8@hotmail.com / March 20, 2016
A J D Perera qeenie is not half burger but Malay in singhalese called Ja.
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senthil / March 20, 2016
Looks like all the old politicians are corrupted and got their fair share and they are not going to take any action to bring back the lost money or justice to affected people. Two options, one is electing a genuine new leader from the majority like our sun-god Pranaharan to clean our beautiful country or provide full political power to all provinces to clean their own backyard themselves(Encounter) without waiting for the cotton fruit to ripe. If we keep talking like this without any action, can’t save our country(really not my country anymore) from the disaster waiting to happen. There is a story, catch the “OOnan” reptile from the road and put it inside our dress – like that we started war with our own brothers and allowed other countries to interfere in our family quarrel – permanent headache- like British think, we can be good labourers but can’t be good managers- we prove .
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renu / March 20, 2016
Though he has no intellectual capacity he has the brains to rob . We know how he fared at St Thomas’s college No Brains but Broun only, All brothers were the same . So one can see the family tradition of robbing is going to the siblings as well
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Native Vedda / March 20, 2016
renu
“We know how he fared at St Thomas’s college No Brains but Broun only”
He must have been a late developer. To prove it please check his Law College results, he passed law exame with 99.9999999999999999999999 % marks, a record for any one who aspire to be legal eagle.
Not only he is brainy, he is popular as well. He has been an MP for sometime, and much loved by girls, a poster boy.
Do you envy him?
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renu / March 20, 2016
Namal don’t you worry they will indict you on all the investigations that gave been completed , further just9ice will prevail and if found guilty you will have quite time in Welikade and then you will lose all the civic rights which means you re out of the Political seen. You and the family can live with monies robbed from the innocent Citizens . We are awaiting for this moment
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Native Vedda / March 20, 2016
renu
“We know how he fared at St Thomas’s college No Brains but Broun only”
He must have been a late developer. To prove it please check his Law College results, he passed law exame with 99.9999999999999999999999 % marks, a record for any one who aspire to be legal eagle.
Not only he is brainy, he is popular as well. He has been an MP for sometime, and much loved by girls, a poster boy.
Do you envy him?
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