UNP criticizes Sri Lanka President’s visit to Caribbean

Sri Lanka’s major opposition United National Party (UNP) today criticized the President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s visit to Caribbean to watch the national team playing in the World Cup final with Australia tomorrow.

UNP MP John Amaratunga compared the President’s visit to Nero’s fiddling while Rome was burning. He said that the former President Chandrika Kumaratunga did not go to watch the World Cup final in 1996 in which Sri Lanka won....

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