Commemorating 10 years in Office - The People's President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga
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Minister comes hard on certain reports:

President's address distorted by UNP, says Mangala

Ports, Aviation, Information and Media Minister and Education Deputy Minister Mangala Samaraweera, in a media communique yesterday came hard on certain media reports which highlighted the UNP's distortions about President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga's address to the National Advisory Council on Crime Prevention on November 9.

Samaraweera's media communique pointed out that at the Council's meeting on November 9, the President clearly spoke true to her conscience on the breakdown of law and order.

She attributed this to the introduction of the open economy in 1977 by the UNP regime at a time when the country's economic atmosphere was not ready to accommodate such a system.

This brought about a social explosion that ignored humanity and morals and encouraged illicit business activities such as drug trafficking and mass killings with the connivance of the police backed by corrupt politicians.

The President's address also reminded the instances of promotion to police officers who were pawns in the hands of politicians and amnesty to convicted criminals subsequently appointed as Justices of the Peace for the whole island.

She also referred to the instances of harassment to judicial officers who gave judgements against the corrupt political will, the communique said.

It said the President in her address referred to the comments in last January, by the Transparency International, a world renowned NGO observing international corruption, that the Sri Lankan Police Force and the Judiciary count high on the list of corruption in South East Asia.

Samaraweera's communique stated that these genuine expression of the state of law and order by the President were distorted at the UNP press briefing on November 10 and highlighted by certain media organisations.

"The President's address calling for our relentless efforts to restore law and order deserves the accolade of the honest police officers, the judiciary and the general intelligentsia of the country, the communique said.

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