The Hon. Ananda Wijepala
Ananda Wijepala rejected accusations directed at the Police and challenged Opposition members’ credibility in raising issues of murder and journalist killings. He referred to the deaths of Wasim Thajudeen and Lasantha Wickrematunge, alleging that such killings occurred under the previous Rajapaksa Government and questioning whether Namal Rajapaksa and others had the moral authority to speak on the matter.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Don’t come here to talk about killing of journalists like Thajudeen and others. The country knows who did those killings. Those who killed Thajudeen and Lasantha now speak about murder. Do Namal Rajapaksa and others have the moral right to speak about murders? Under your Government, journalists were killed; sportsmen were killed; so many killings happened. Don’t level false allegations at the Police.
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- Hansard, Tuesday, 21 January 2025 ·No. 1737707091008005 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
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Cite as: The Hon. Ananda Wijepala. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 21 January 2025. No. 1737707091008005. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/27282