* Framing charges against Sri Lanka would never succeed, Sri Lanka President says
Saturday, April 4, 2009, 5:50 GMT, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.
Apr 04, Colombo: Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday said that some foreign and local elements' attempt to tarnish the image of Sri Lanka by framing charges of 'war crimes' and human rights violations against the country, would never succeed.
"That would never succeed as long as the Sri Lankan government getting support from the people of the country," the President said addressing some 4,000 former UNP supporters from the Kalutara District, who joined the Sri Lanka Freedom Party yesterday at the Temple Trees in Colombo.
"I am ready to go to gallows or the gas chamber for more than ten times to save the motherland," the President said adding that "if voters took a wrong decision at the last Presidential election, the cancer of LTTE terrorism would have spread from Chillaw to Walawe Ganga passing Hambantota."
He said that on daily basis the people can watch on the TV the amount of weapons LTTE had in their military stocks.
"If the government did not launch the humanitarian operation to liberate the country, the terrorists would have totally devastated the country by now," he said.
He also charged the then Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe for signing the Ceasefire Agreement with the LTTE leader Prabhakaran.
"Our armed forces have almost won the war and the government is prosecuting a war against terrorism while engaging in a huge development drive," the President added.
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