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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AtulaSiriwardane" data-source="post: 4012908" data-attributes="member: 120286">Former Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga on Thursday appeared to disapprove of the manner in which the military campaign is being pursued in northern part of the island nation.  "I don't believe in bombarding people and killing thousands of civilians and rendering hundreds of refugees," Kumaratunga told reporters here when asked how she would have dealt with the situation and LTTE chief V Prabhakaran. At the same time, she was not willing to give entire credit to the Mahinda Rajapaksa government for the victory against LTTE, saying her government had done two-thirds of work and the present dispensation had only completed that.  "We had taken over roughly 70 to 75 per cent of the land area held by LTTE... They have cleared the rest of the 30 or 25 per cent of the land... This present government has finished the operations that we had started with weapons we bought," said Kumaratunga, whose government preceded the present dispensation.</blockquote>

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