SRI LANKA: “YOU ARE PROMOTING EXTREMISM IN OUR RANKS” – FULL TEXT OF SAMPANTHNA’S SPEECH.
by Hon. Rajavarothiam Sampanthan – Leader of the Opposition.
23/02/2017
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We are starting this Adjournment Debate half-an-hour behind time. Might I suggest that in case Hon. Members want to speak, you might have to sit a little beyond 7.00 p.m. to be able to accommodate the Hon. Members because we are already 35 minutes or 40 minutes behind schedule? I leave that to you, Sir.
I will now read my Adjournment Motion which is as follows:
“All people who lived in Sri Lanka, irrespective of their ethnicity, religion, or any other difference, whether Sinhalese, Tamil, Muslim or Burgher made their fullest contribution to the achievement of independence.
It is almost 70 years since Sri Lanka attained Independence from Colonial Rule.
