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UNP Colombo District MP Sujeewa Senasinghe said that the protest organized by the government today was a strategy to divert the attention of the country. “These protests is a means of hoodwinking the masses, the country is in tatters, both economically and politically. The rule of law is depleting day by day, abductions are on the rise and the cost of living has sky rocketed. The protests are used to hoodwink the masses who are fed up with this government,” he said.

Senasinghe further went on to point out that the impending resolution on the country was due to the governments’ corruption an inability to address the most basic issues of human rights and other relating factors. “If the government took concrete measures to address issues that were a part and parcel of the conflict and the human rights concerns that have been raised both locally and internationally then we would not have had to face this at this juncture, The LLRC report was prepared by our people and not by the United Nations and despite not being satisfied by it I believe that the recommendations should be implemented forthwith,” he said.

Speaking further he pointed out that the general population of the country have not heeded to the governments call to protest against the impending resolution, “This is not only a hoodwinking strategy but a failed strategy as well, if you look at the people who participated at the protests they were all government employees including heads of institutions who actually looked embarrassed to be holding placards. The only reason they must have joined the protest was because they were paid by the government and everything depended on them supporting it,” he said. (Yohan Perera and Hafeel Farisz)

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