Sirisena at the Victory Day Celebration
Sri Lanka’s President reflected glory from the military victory over the separatism in the Island as he commemorated the annihilation of the LTTE Tamil terrorist.
Addressing a military ceremony marking the ninth anniversary of defeating Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) terrorists, President Maithripala Sirisena criticised state-run media for insufficient adoration of troops.
He ticked off government-run media outlets for not singing hosannas in praise of war heroes. He also accused private media institutions of ignoring the government’s welfare measures for war veterans.
“We must grant the highest honours to our brave soldiers and always be grateful to the sacrifices they made,” Sirisena said while accusing unnamed senior members of his cabinet of being disrespectful of veterans.
“Unfortunately, some members of the government are also unable to differentiate between the terrorists and rana viruvas.”
Infamous and notorious Rajitha Senarathna a cabinet minister of his government highly praised LTTE Tamil terrorist and its terrorist leader Prabakaran and equaled Tamil terrorists and Soldiers.
Sirisena discounted claims of civilians casualties during the decades-long Tamil terrorism in North and East of Sri Lanka saying there were no reliable accounts of how many had actually died.
The only reliable figures were those of members of security forces killed in the conflict, he said adding that 28,708 government forces had died while another 40,107 were wounded.
It is widely known fact that LTTE Tamil terrorists used Tamil civilians as a human shield to attack the government forces and killed thousands of feeling Tamil civilians from the clutches of Tamil terrorists. He also warned that the LTTE Tamil terrorists was still active abroad propagating its ideology for an independent state carved out of Sri Lanka.
“We have succeeded in defeating terrorism, but not their ideology,” Sirisena lamented. He said Tigers and their sympathisers abroad were campaigning against Sri Lanka and had protested during his visit to London last month.
Sirisena extolled the patriotism, bravery, valour and courage of security forces and wanted state media to keep Sri Lankans reminded of the sacrifices made by the military.
He claimed that there were no war crimes charges against government forces at the UN Human Rights Council. However, he said, the media and non-governmental organisations were misrepresenting the facts and claiming that the security forces were to be hauled up for human rights abuses.
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