Rajapaksa ‘Horapalanaya’ - Job Destruction 

and Increased Unemployment

24 July 2015

While crown prince “Night Race” Namal raced his Lamborghini around Colombo and Sajin Vaas sipped Rs. 26,000 cognac shots, ordinary Sri Lankan people were suffering from job loss and unemployment. Despite claims of development and historically low unemployment rates by the Rajapaksa regime, a closer look at the statistics tells a different story.

In the month of June last year, at the Group of 77+China Summit in Bolivia, Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa claimed that unemployment in Sri Lanka had come down to around 4.1% as a result of his “Mahinda Chinthana”. Former ‘Economic Development’ Minister Basil Rajapaksa, said that Sri Lanka had recorded its lowest ever unemployment rate in 2014. However, when comparing 2013  and 2014 figures, a significant rise in job loss and unemployment can be seen. In the Colombo district, job loss between 2013 and 2014 is approximately 12,000. This however pales in comparison to the massive job loss in the Kalutara, Anuradhapura, Kegalle and Puttalam districts as well as Hambantota district, home of the Rajapaksas.