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Sri Lanka President living naked with thieves, says main opposition
Saturday, March 21, 2009, 14:46 GMT, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.
Mar 21, Colombo: Sri Lanka main opposition United National Party (UNP) today accused the government of not following a democratic stream at the moment and described the situation as the 'President of the country living naked with thieves.'
Kurunegala District UNP parliamentarian Dayasiri Jayasekara said the media that the government is violating all the aspects of democracy by enlisting terrorists in to the government.
"The most recent example for this situation was enlisting Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan alias Karuna Amman to the government, the main accused of LTTE attack on Temple of Tooth Relic in Kandy and assassination of Buddhist monks at Aranthalawa in Ampara," he said.
MP Jayasekara stressed that Karuna Amman and his supporters who joined the Sri Lanka Freedom Party have not handed over their illegal weapons to the government yet.
"It means there are illegal armed groups in the government," the MP stressed.
According to MP Jayasekara, getting support from Wimal Weerawansa is also another example of this government's effort to derail the democratic stream.