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Isolated Lanka dissidents face lonely days
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13 Feb 2007 19:20 edt.
Dissidents in the ruling Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) seem to be heading for isolation, given the manifest lack of support for their cause, especially within the party. The three dissidents, Mangala Samaraweera, Anura Bandaranaike and Sripathi Sooriyarachchi, who were sacked from the Council of Ministers by President Mahinda Rajapaksa last week, have been unable to hold a press conference to date.
Bandaranaike, who last week called Rajapaksa's regime a "carnival of clowns" and his government "hellish", has now gone into his shell. Samaraweera complained that he was unable to meet his followers because the police would not allow people to enter Stanmore Crescent, where his house is, on the grounds that it is a high security zone. The withdrawal of ministerial security since the sack, had created fear among the dissidents. Sooriyarachchi said that the former ministers would soon petition the Sri Lanka Human Rights Commission about this because all three were known to be in the LTTE's hit list.
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Published: Tue Feb 13 19:20:06 EST 2007
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