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President tells Colombo based foreign diplomats:
National security prime concern
Democracy, human freedom will be protected:
President Rajapaksa yesterday said that national
security is the Government’s prime concern and the Government takes
every possible effort to ensure that terrorism would not raise its
ugly head on Sri Lanka soil again. Addressing the Colombo based
foreign diplomats at the Presidential Secretariat yesterday
President Rajapaksa said the Government’s policy on democracy and
human freedom remains unchanged.
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Army evacuates stranded devotees
The Sri Lanka Army evacuated devotees stranded
due to floods caused by heavy rains at the historic Somawathiya area
in Polonnaruwa, by deploying military vehicles. Nearly 400,000
devotees who came in around 30,000 vehicles to participate in
religious observances at this Buddhist site on May 8 and 9 were
trapped as a result of floods.
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