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A disabled soldier in election contest against General Janaka Perera

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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