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Tuesday, June 08,  2010
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BBC says Gota told HARDtalk:
If Fonseka commits treason,
he’ll be hanged

SF quoted as saying he’s ready to testify before war crimes probe

BBC yesterday reported that Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa had, in a HARDtalk interview, threatened to execute former Army Commander Gen. Sarath Fonseka, MP, if the latter continued ‘to suggest top officials may have ordered war crimes during the final hours of the Tamil war’. "That‘s treason and we will hang him (Fonseka) if he does that," BBC quoted Gotabhaya as having said.

HARDtalk presenter Stephen Sackur, in a report posted on BBC website yesterday...

The SLFP Ex-Co and All Ceylon Working committee felicitated President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who completed 40 years in active politics yesterday, by awardingSwarna Thilina Award. Vice President of the SLFP Prime Minister D. M. Jayaratne, General Secretary of the party Health Minister Maithripala Sirisena and SLFP Treasurer Minister of Youth Affairs Dullas Alahapperuma hand over the award to the President at Temple Trees.

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Opposition MPs demand decentralised funds
Opposition parliamentarians are up in arms against the government’s failure to provide them with decentralised funds for this year. Even though over five months of 2010 have already lapsed, the Rajapaksa regime was the...

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