The Maharaja Group which flourished during the UNP rule by getting 8 to 10 Govt contracts in the shadiest possible manner causing revenue losses to the Govt are angry with me because now they cannot get all the 8 contracts - President @CBKsrilLanka on TV & Radio 3 Jan 2000
"Sirisena ordered only the two of us to be arrested!" ⚖️💥Moments before being sentenced to death, former Defense Secretary Hemasiri Fernando said in court regarding the Easter Sunday Attacks.
He alleged that former Intelligence Chief Nilantha Jayawardena was a co-conspirator in the attacks.
He further claimed that when the Attorney General advised arresting a group of individuals, then-President Maithripala Sirisena explicitly instructed to arrest only the IGP and the Defense Secretary. #EasterSundayAttacks #SriLanka #HemasiriFernando #MaithripalaSirisena #LKA #BreakingNewsSL #SriLankaPolitics #JusticeSL
✅ Well, this is when @PresRajapaksa told his brother to fuck off during the last days of the war in 2009.
Times have changed a weak punk government is in charge of #srilanka
I’m not surprised if the Milibands come after us
These WhatsApp messages, allegedly sent by the then State Intelligence Service (SIS) Director to the Defence Secretary ahead of the Easter Sunday attacks, have resurfaced after a Sri Lankan court sentenced former Defence Secretary Hemasiri Fernando and former IGP Pujith Jayasundara to death over their failure to act on intelligence warnings.
The messages reportedly warned of a possible attack targeting churches and hotels before April 21, 2019