3.7.2008
Presidential Media Unit announces
that Mr. Upali wijekoon, the only survivor of LTTE bomb
that killed Lt. General Denzil Kobekaduwa and Major General
Wijaya Wimalarathna in Kaits Island in 1992, will contest
for the North Central Provincial Council election. Mr. Wijekoon
who lost legs in the attack, met the President at Temple
Trees yesterday (02) and stated that he would contest the
election to give value to all those who made such sacrifices
for the security of the country.
He has said that the President Mahinda Rajapakse is giving
right answers to terrorism and if the past leaders acted
like him the terrorism could have been defeated entirely.
Sri
Lanka Freedom Party General Secretary Maithripala Sirisena
also participated in the occasion.
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