Government barring foreigners from visiting the north is to lay groundwork for massive vote plundering - Lakshman Kiriella

(Lanka-e-News- 16.Oct.2014, 11.30PM) The new law introduced prohibiting foreigners visiting the north and east without the prior permission from the defense Ministry is to lay the groundwork for massive vote plundering ,UNP M.P. and leadership council member Lakshman Kiriella declared. Kiriella issuing a special communiqué in this regard stated thus:

Brigadier Ruwan Wanigasuriya , the media spokesman for the forces said , foreigners must obtain prior permission from the defense Ministry if they are to visit the north or the east of the country. It is very clear that this is an advance move to halt accepted impartial election monitors and others from entering the east and the north , while permitting only election monitors who are partial towards the government and its supporters to go to the north during the period of the forthcoming elections.

The government is getting ready well ahead to commit a massive plunder of votes in the north, and repeat what happened at the Presidential elections in 2005 , the communiqué further points out.

The communiqué issued by Lakshman Kiriella is appended :