Maithri says will not remove military camps from north
Friday, 2 January 2015 00:00
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Common Opposition presidential candidate Maithripala Sirisena said that his Government after 8 January would not remove any military camp from the north but would provide an environment conducive to all Sinhala, Tamil and Muslim people to live in peace and harmony.
Addressing a public rally in Puttalam on Wednesday (31 December), Sirisena said already people without any religious or ethnic division had lined up to form a national government and that the national government the people expect to form did not have individual goals but common goals for the country. Sirisena, dismissing Government allegations that a future government under him would allow terrorism to rise again, said he had the backing of people who in fact were the ones who defeated the LTTE.
“We have Sarath Fonseka with us who helped to destroy terrorism in the island. Do you think he will allow terrorism to rise its head up again?” he asked.
Stating that in the guise of development the Rajapaksa regime had used public money to enrich the family, the common candidate said there was a breakdown in society as casinos and prostitution had become the main money earners for the Government.
Sirisena said the President was spreading the myth that a future Sirisena government would allow the LTTE to rise again. He vowed that neither the LTTE nor any other such group would never be allowed to rise again under a future Opposition government.
