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Video: Talk To Al Jazeera – Mahinda Rajapaksa: ‘This Is All Propaganda’

Sri Lanka’s president discusses a recent UN report accusing him of pushing the country into an authoritarian direction.

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    Is there anyone there believe his words???? excepting to his cronies?

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      Those who voted UPFA at recent elections and those who will vote UPFA in coming up elections would believe in everything what MR had said.

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        Yeah! Looks like. That shows how much these people are worried about their personal well being and neglect the betterment of the entire country as a whole. Actually, we are very unfortunate to see all these degeneration helpless.

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          All – on contrary, I think the guy (MR) handled it pretty well – obviously he would lie about a few things. But, the truth in what he say is that we, Sri Lanka, as a whole is kinda getting mistreated when the other countries can go Scott free after any atrocity. Also, the people do vote for them – issue – Ranil W. If we had a proper opposition, he wouldn’t be dancing the monkey dance and would have been thrown out by now. So, don’t blame the guy, blame our selves.

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        Did the UPFA actually get those votes? Is the court jester of an election commissioner responsible for the win?? Around 3 PM reports were that only about 30% of people had voted. No body saw people rushing to vote. Then what happened.
        The family has been elected???? Who elected them? Basil through GILMART? Who else? Wickramasinghe, the maniac secretary. The ambassadors etc etc.

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          Continue your ‘sweet dreams’, Ninja. Good for you.

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      Where would you grade vocal skills of MR compared to Kadir, JR, Lalith ?
      -:(

      Even Sangakkara would have better worded the replies. -:)

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        At least the lies would have been better dressed up!!!

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      I don’t think even he believes in his own words. He is a cunning politician who believed that when he talks the whole world sleeps but like a cat that closes its eyes when drinking milk but comes to its senses when it gets kicked, this man is very frustrated and sore that the world is still awake to pin him on his words and deeds.

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      If there is a contest between “King Chethiya” and our “King Mahinda” definitely “King Mahinda” will win with healthy majority.

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        @ Lapatiya: “King Mahinda” will win with healthy majority.”
        Yeah…When the “F–King” wins the whole country loses.
        So, the biggest conspiracy is when the Racist gangs (JHU & DOGS) cry from the roof tops that there’s a foreign hand, the better foreign hand is displayed by their own action.

        Look at damage they have caused. Every anti social activity of theirs perpetrated against the other Sri Lankans (Muslims,Christians,Weliweirya,Tamils etc) has taken an International issue and thus being attended by the UN. Everything has been Internationalized. Thank you JHU & RAVANA BALLOS, BODU BALLOS SHIT (BBS)!!!!

        These Ballos can’t hide any longer behind Church/Kovil/Mosque attacks and cover the crimes, the more serious ones committed by the MR gangs. People are wise these days and they’re slowly but steadily reading everything….The Writing on the wall is very visibly seen….Regime is going to fall very very soon!!!!!

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      Is this the Dumbo whom Sinhalese venerate as their KING..LOL

      What a MONKEY who can’t comprehend the questions being asked but only mumbles some mumbo jumbo words which are of no relevance!

      The Message that gets out of Modapakshe is that he is a very big LIAR! He is trying very hard not to reveal the truth but the Al-Jazeera interviewer James Bay’s facial expression tells us all what he thinks about this imbecile.

      Even his own former UN Ambassador Dayan is calling him a liar!

      However, the Monkey looks proud of its own efforts in shaking the dummy head and mumbling & rumbling something that comes out of its dumb brain!

      Even a Donkey would bray better to trumpet its own braying!

      What a Stupid Sinhala King..LOL!
      Is this the best the Sinhalese can show the world as their KING..LMAO!

      Al Jazeera,
      Thanks for the comedy show :))

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        Suresh

        He is better than most of the toilet cleaners and LTTE supporters commented in this forum.

        HE may have struggled here. At least majority of SL People did vote him for his cause of eliminating the LTTE parasites,

        Country is better off without those parasite.

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    21st century’s The Most Funniest Moments” are the talk shows and interviews in which they demonstrate their crude attitudes and blatant lies. and finally ending it with “May the triple gem (Murder, Thuggery & robbery) protect you” manthra words.

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    This bugger must go to elementary school again or avoid speaking in English.
    lol ‘This is democratic coutry’ and shaking his head left to right was the only thing he spoke loud.

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      Totally agree. What a disgraceful Q & A session !

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      Only a stupid man would say that being able to speak in English fluently is a must to be intelligent and an intellectual. Leave out a speech, which Russian leader, Chinese leader, Japanese leader, Brazilian leader, Cuban leader or even a French leader ever gave an interview in English. They all carry subtitles in a language of choice. Like all of those leaders, Rajapakse too should have opted to answer the questions in his mother tongue. He would have performed better.

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        Patriot have a limit for bum sucking. If you have finished your Sabbatical get back home as there is a lot of dirty linen, including lunkets and junghies collected at Temple Trees, for washing.

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          It seems to be you like to taste Queen’s shit like a dog. ha ha. That is the reason you people r still under the Sudda’s knee. what a shame!

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            Someone said Gamini lives in a cold and damp basement in the UK. If its true it must be the damp in his basement that has turned his brain upside down.

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              Banda, you must be living inbetween Mahinda’s damp butt cheeks. And zaheer’s eating out MARA’s waste to prevent you from drowning in his bulls–t.

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            Zaheer Ismail, have you tried eating pig shit with GOATa?

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              … should have read “Zahir Musamil”

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            Its not ‘musamil’ Its Muzammil.
            Are you by the way camel urine Asanka or Sarojini or patriot?

            MR ones again proved here that he has no Skills or Charisma.
            He cannot even act natural. He is total plastic and ugly.

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        Patriot, I completely agree with you. I don’t see why he doesn’t opt to reply in English. He could have put his point across so much more effectively. Don’t agree with his point personally but that’s a different issue

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        Patriot / Jim Softy,

        You are correct. Then why the f***** he answered in English??? if he was not able to………..

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    Al Jazeera is Al Qaeda propaganda.

    CNN is CIAA propaganda.

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      Oh my GOd!

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      And Fukushima is now declared a no man’s land, desolate, radio active, tsunami destroyed wasteland.

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      Do not forget the most neutral TV channel is ITN and Rupavahini (Sri Lanka) and the most neutral newspapers are produced by Lake House. Pooh!!!

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      This fathomable is a nominee of Pataliputra and Modawansa?

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    Mr. Kalupahana should use some decent words when going public. It clearly showed your level.

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      Tissa I totally agree with you, had Kalupahana addressed a Gentleman in that Fashion. This is the mistake we have made in the past addressing these hoodlum as Gentleman and playing politics according to Westminster rule, while they have resorted to Mariyakade tactics and taking the Mickey out of us. It is about time that we address them accordingly and fight back in similar fashion, because they believe we will not resort to such levels as you say. Well the time has come if they want us to behave like that to match them certainly we would.

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        Had this Interviewer interviewed DIG Vass Gunawardene, he would have got a better picture of the White Vans. For the lies he said ‘Mugey katey Panuwo gahanda oney’.

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        Ignore the screams of the damp fearing basement living destitute gaminiya.

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          You Sod, you thought gaminia is your[Edited out]?

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      Mr Jayasinghe, I too have no bloody respect for this family lunatics and his 3rd grade sidekicks. Looks as if you were very much hurt, are you?
      This president is lying to the entire world thru an international widely popular media, of course talking with his hands much more than appropriate vocabulary. Where were you when this same president’s one crony made a crazy propsal to Ms Pillay. do you thing that the president didnt know about it? Was that good for you?
      Listen this interview again and see the ‘Malle pol’ replies of the president of democratic sicialist republic of Sri lanka. He is making all of us a laughing stock. what a con artist! What a mockery! When the anchor asked about the attack on Ms Anandi he said some cock and bull story about democracy. When asked about the attacks on minorities he was talking about a six year old girl which we never heard of. This man is solely responsible for the coutries chaos today. What respect you want us to pay him?

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      Tisssa Jayasinghe says,

      “Mr. Kalupahana should use some decent words when going public. It clearly showed your level..”

      On the contrary Mr. Kalupahana has been very lenient on this clownish fucker who for the whole period of this interview only managed to throw the bugger’s arms, mutt head and ‘carberry’ lips in every direction and rotated the rogue eyes like a scarecrow planted in a paddy field! What a shame this loser brought on Sri Lanka! He was stuttering like a tongue-cut pigeon and is this the way an Executive President speaks? JR would commit suicide while in his grave had he heard this bugger killed the king! What a shame! The questioner had to egg on the bugger to make him eject the words from his lying mouth! People of this country must be assholes to elect this type of a dumbass to this celebrated office!

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        Ayoma, We know that you antinational anglophile bigoted and racist pighead bitches who wash white ass with your tongue insult the citizens of Sri Lanka who use their franchise intelligently as assholes. Don’t you forget that yankee doodles, Don Juans Dona Catharenaa are dead and gone for ever. Its Dharmapala era now stupid.

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          Citizens of Sri Lanka who use their franchise intelligently as assholes? Definitely any bugger who voted for this Scum Bag is an arsehole. Unfortunately not many vote for MR. Like the three bags full of marked ballots only help this bugger to poll any vote at all.

          Ayoma, if you have a Bitch at home, the canine variety, you could get this bugger, this non Muslim to clean the bitch as suggested by him. He must be definitely good at it, as he speaks of using his tongue lavishly. These Buggers are born to misery and is trying to make life difficult for others as well.

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      Tisssa Jayasinghe says,

      “Mr. Kalupahana should use some decent words when going public. It clearly showed your level..”

      On the contrary Mr. Kalupahana has been very lenient on this clownish fucker who for the whole period of this interview only managed to throw the bugger’s arms, mutt head and ‘carberry’ lips in every direction and rotated the rogue eyes like a scarecrow planted in a paddy field! What a shame this loser brought on Sri Lanka! He was stuttering like a tongue-cut pigeon and is this the way an Executive President speaks? JR would commit suicide while in his grave had he heard this bugger killed the king! What a shame! The questioner had to egg on the bugger to make him eject the words from his lying mouth! People of this country must be assholes to elect this type of a dumbass to this celebrated office!

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      You worried about Mr kalupahana’s level? What exactly is yours?

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    Mahinda regime didn’t allow Al Jazeera to cover the election but self propaganda war criminal Sri Lankan president gavei interview to same Al Jazeera
    Al Jazeera got media freedom at UN not in chin lanka

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    Dear Al Jazeera

    UNHRC Chief hasn’t said anything that hasn’t been said by international human rights organisations:

    ”Mali and Sri Lanka regressed from flawed democracies to hybrid regimes’’ – Democracy index 2012 – Democracy at a standstill, A report (2013) from The Economist Intelligence Unit, http://pages.eiu.com/rs/eiu2/images/Democracy-Index-2012.pdf

    Sri Lanka’s Authoritarian Turn: The Need for International Action, International Crisis Group, 20 Feb 2013, http://www.crisisgroup.org/en/regions/asia/south-asia/sri-lanka/243-sri-lankas-authoritarian-turn-the-need-for-international-action.aspx

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    I did not know that Al Jazeera telecasts “the worlds funniest video”. This seems to be the funniest of the century. For me it looked more like a puppet show, Mahinda Rajapakshe was acting like a puppet and his own face showed to the whole world that he was lying.

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    This talkative, Malabari president Rajapassa is a Lawyer from the law college of sri lanka.

    There is speculation that Hadu Samerasingho sat for the exam for this guy.

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      This bugger is NOT a lawyer. The person who sat for the law exam on this moron’s behalf died under tragic circumstances. The deceased was also a cabinet minister???

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    A bloody liar, crook and murderer. One day he and his family will get what they deserve.

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    The audacity of idiocy! The interviewer, James Bays, could barely contain his laughter at this sorry spectacle of a head of state.

    Interesting how Dayan Jayatilleke has now become a head of a NGO – the greatest of put downs the President could think of.

    The President needs to realize that Ms. Navi Pillay doesn’t have to “tell” him everything but that it would suffice if he just read her report and acted on its recommendations.

    What an embarrassment to have a President like this; now I can fully empathize with the Italian’s for having put up with the cringe worthy years of Berlusconi.

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    M/s Dialog Axiata work in strategic cahoots with the ruling family of Sri Lanka – during the recently concluded provisional council elections they blocked Al Jazeera and then, the Mobile phone conversations of the suspected murderers of Lasantha Wickeamatunge were deleted.

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    ”The role of the international community continues to remain important in upholding human rights standards.
    Just two days prior to the arrival in Sri Lanka of UN Human Rights Commissioner, Navanethem Pillay, the government implemented yet another one of the recommendations of the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) by moving the Police Department out of the Ministry of Defence. It did so by creating a new Ministry of Law and Order which has been mandated to implement the Police Ordinance. The LLRC had said that “The Police Department is a civilian institution which is entrusted with the maintenance of law and order. Therefore it is desirable that the Police Department be de-linked from the institutions dealing with the armed forces which are responsible for the security of the State.” But indicative of continued resistance to a total de-linking, the government appointed a retired army general to be the Secretary to the new supposedly civilian-controlled Ministry. ……’’ – OMANTHAI CHECKPOINT’S CHALLENGE TO NATIONAL UNITY AND LLRC IMPLEMENTATION, Jehan Perera, 26 August 2013, http://www.peace-srilanka.org/media-centre/articles-by-dr-jehan-perera/711-omanthai-checkpoint-s-challenge-to-national-unity-and-llrc-implementation-jehan-perera

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    3 decades of military challenges made the grass roots stronger. This challenge will push Sri Lanka to get better at a higher level. So its all good.

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    What a lot of bullshit! Only a fool would believe these lies!

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    Unconvincing and very pathetic!

    How sad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    What is in his Hand?

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      His gold spectacle and a jewel on one finger to protect from all evils!
      He is great in that he was able to handle the interview without the Prof.G.L.P prompting him what to say!

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    MR seems to believe that by lying with a straight face he can get away from all the allegations leveled. He doesn’t seem to know what this attitude will get us as a nation.

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    According to MR Dayan is a member of a powerful NGO. Which one is that?
    Does anyone know? Will DJ respond?

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    This would have been more interesting if the godfather Gotha was there.

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    Words don’t come easy when trying to defend what is truly happening on the ground, which itself is incriminating evidence, into justifiable action which sounds perfectly legitimate. All tin-pot regimes behave this way, and in this case, the interviewer cannot cross-examine the leader of a country excessively, instead leaves it to us ‘the audience’ to judge his credibility. Poor show.

    Everyone in this country knows about the infamous ‘white van abductions’ including blackmail and demand of huge ransom to free the hijacked victims, or the victim is killed and the body dumped dumped. But he connected this to an isolated incident of a runaway kid.

    He says there were no incidents of religious intolerance or extremism in the country, whereas the minorities know the truth of that statement. As usual talking shop about 100 odd Mosques destroyed in an un-named country and no one points a finger at government, but when similar such type incidents happen in SL, the government is blamed. Bluff again. The truth is the government gave tacit support to attackers, no arrests were made and the police (government controlled) were made inept while attacks took place around the country. The only good thing was no one was killed.

    It is definitely a good thing that the UNHCR is closely monitoring what is going on in SL, since we as minorities have lost confidence in this government to uphold the law with justice and fair-play in its treatment of all its citizens. What happened to the Tamils in July ’83 is now looming menacingly on the SL Muslims. Of course, we have faith and trust in Allah to protect us, our lives, families, businesses and properties. A world body like the UN helps to keep this government in check, as a repeat will only fuel world condemnation and spell doom for this regime including this leader and his family bandits.

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    What a prick – how can this guy be a president when he is not fit to clean a toilet. Listen to this liar and make up your own mind. A f… wit that needs to be brought before the international courts.

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      Well we get millions of them in Sri lanka

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      he is not fit to clean a toilet

      Don’t worry george, I doubt he’s looking to move in on your territory any time soon :)

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        I bet you alone would lick the toilets clean you Singalis Fock nugget.

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          I’m not after your traditional jobs either – you’re getting agitated for no reason :-)

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    F…..ing liar

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    He says he spent $3 million developing the North. $ 3 million is peanuts as from the $3 million there would have been commissions taken by his group so at the end only a part of $ 3 million would have been spent. What development can you do for $3 million?

    He once again lied to the world saying that army involvement in education is the Cadet Corps. Army even without he permission of the student or their parents take them for training before they enter university. This is not Cadet Corps.

    He once again lied sorry not once several times re: white van, 30 journalists being killed, religious attacks by groups supported by the Government etc.

    His answer to the question re: intimidation of the people who met Navi Pillai is a stupid answer. All the news papers carried articles that the priest who spoke to Navi Pillai was harressed the same night and even the white van, BBS attacking muslim businesses, BBS attacking mosques, Ravana Balaya attacking christian places of worship etc were in the papers. Why should someone come forward lodge a complaint its his duty to investigate and punish. Even in this interview all he said was investigations are being held, he could not give one incident where investigations were completed and punishment was given.

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      he said 3billion he will claim. ….but before his answer was aired in the split second Al Jazeera voiced over 3million

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      Yes, he said he spent Three Billion US Dollars for Nothern development.
      First of all he did not SPENT 3 billion dollars but BORROWED 3 billion.
      But where did 3 billion dollars go…..Could anybody see development to match three billion. It’s upto COPE and International community to find out.

      Second this man is a danger and a trouble maker to our country. The pathological liar discredited Sri Lanka in front of the world.

      He said a seven year old girl was raped by a man which is a pathological lie. This Muslim boy was in love with a Sinhala girl, and BBS thugs opposed it and they came and attacked a Muslim church as a revenge for their friendship. This is what was in the press, but he turned it upside down. Why did BBS attacked a Muslim church for a Muslim/ Sinhala love affair. UN should investigate this incident before further bloodshed occurs.

      Also white van abduction and eloping with a 23 year old girl is another lie. A story made up by MR.There are many cases of white van abduction and disappearances and murder of reporters, journalists and other HR activists and also there are witnesses to prove them.

      It’s time that UN investigate all these Govt. criminal activities.

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    This President thinks. UN is like a casino in Las Vegas. if you think this is a casino why do you attend.

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      Attend UN to confirm his Sri Lanka Dynasty, take photo-ops with world leaders and drink wine and party with them, having a good time at first class hotels and do shopping, all with Tax payer money.

      Taking his “Nade” for show off and pleasure trip is part of the fake King’s game plan.

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    This fuckwit says he is honest- ha ha ha

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    Biggest fuckwit round

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    When the Minister of Defence himself says in a public TV interview
    (12.25 min) that there are only 8000 to 12000 army men in that area,
    I turned off the video in sheer annoyance. If this is the kind of
    lies that are so daringly made, what more proof is needed. It may have
    been uttered in a drunken state is my guess?

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    They say we are honest!!!!!

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    Next vision- make the country prosperous- do you mean the rajapakkse family

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