General Fonseka free to go abroad

[AtulaSiriwardane]

General Fonseka free to go abroad

Friday, 29 January 2010 12:41
( 20 Votes )

General Sarath Fonseka has no barriers from leaving the country and his movements are not restricted, Mr. Lakshman Hullugalla, Director General of the Media Center for National security told Daily Mirror online.

Further Immigration and Emigration controller P.B. Abeykoonstated that to his knowledge they were not informed to put any restrictions on General Sarath Fonseka’s foreign movements or his passport by the authorities. (GS)

 

[AtulaSiriwardane]

Fonseka shouldn't leave Sri Lanka,
says president's brotherThu, Jan 28 12:44 PM


New Delhi, Jan 28 (IANS) Defeated presidential candidate Sarath Fonseka should not leave Sri Lanka as he needs to answer 'a lot of allegations against him', President Mahinda Rajapaksa's brother said Thursday.
'He should remain in the country,' Basil Rajapaksa, who advises the president on political affairs, said in a telephonic interview, a day after incumbent Mahinda Rajapaksa trounced former army chief Fonseka in one of the most hotly contested presidential elections in Sri Lanka.
'He (Fonseka) has to answer the people. We have a lot of allegations against him,' the younger Rajapaksa told IANS from Colombo.
He did not say what the charges were, who had levelled them, and whether Fonseka, who is not even an MP, would face trial and, if so, when.
Asked to comment on statements that Fonseka feared for his life, Basil Rajapaksa thought for a moment and answered: 'No... I don't think so.'

 

[senator]

Atula, let me tell you this. Generally, I do not go by mere reports alone. But under the law of the land, neither the President nor any of his siblings can prevent any citizen of Sri Lanka from going abroad. Only a court of law can make such an order.

If anybody thinks otherwise, either he has gone nuts or doesn't care for the law of the land.