Terrorists, drug offenders will be sent to gallows: Sajith
New Democratic Front Presidential Candidate Sajith Premadasa yesterday pledged to impose the death sentence on terrorists and drug offenders.
Mr. Premadasa made this pledge at Poddala in Galle saying all terrorists who belong to various groups based on religion and drug offenders who are found guilty by an independent judicial system, will be subjected to the death sentence.
“My opponent had said he is against the death sentence. But I would like to question him whether we are to allow terrorists to spread religious extremism and convert others into their ideology?” he asked.
Mr. Premadasa reiterated that he would assign the task of ensuring the security of the country and eradicating the drug menace to Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka.
“We will embark on a new journey with a new group of able people from November 16 this year,” he also said.
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe alleged that the SLPP is trying to stabilise the economy by getting the treasury to stop allocating funds for government corporations and through retrenching.
Mr. Wickremesinghe told the election rally that he will raise this issue until SLPP candidate explains as to whether he is going to stabilise the economy by stopping allocation of funds to corporations.
“Mr. Rajapaksa had said he will stop government corporations being a burden to the treasury and thereby stabilise the economy. Is he going to do it by stopping the total annual allocation of Rs.25 billion to corporations? I will keep raising this question until Mr. Rajapaksa comes out with his explanation as to how he is going to release the burden of corporations from the treasury,” the Prime Minister said.
(Source: Daily Mirror – By Yohan Perera)
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By saying “terrorists who belong to various groups based on religion” will be sent to gallows, clearly he has assured the Vigneswaran-Sambandan-Sumitharan Tamil separatist cabal, the one he’s depending on to pull him the “Tamil votes,” that he fully intends to go soft on any future Tamil separatist-terrorists, like the LTTE which, by recent local and Malaysian findings, apeear to be staging a come-back. This is nothing new comimg from this inept, dishonest, corrupt and bankrupt political cabal this man represents which has always been soft on LTTE, but at a personal level this shows he lacks integrity and cannot be trusted to lead our nation!
This guy does not know what he is talking about.
Palleawatte Gamralage Yapa Sirisena wants to send at least one to the gallows before he departs.
The life of each and every human being and animals and birds in this world is a valuable asset.
Every human being who departs from norm accepted by society should be rehabilitated and brought back to social stream at whatever cost.