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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 11089843" data-attributes="member: 92282"><img src="http://flashnewstoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Mahinda-Rajapaksa1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa today warned of an attempt to create religious and ethnic unrest in the country.Rajapaksa  warned his cabinet of the "plot" to create unrest in the country, which  ended a three-decade ethnic conflict in May 2009 with the defeat of the  separatist LTTE."President shared this intelligence information  with his cabinet to make those appropriate aware in order for them to  take preventive action," Keheliya Rambukwella, the minister of  information and the government spokesman said."The President  wanted the cabinet to be aware of this plot," Rambukwella said, ahead of  Saturday''s local council election for 23 councils, including the  capital Colombo''s municipality.He said people with "a mob mentality" were fast spreading baseless rumours with the intention of creating trouble.He blamed news websites of carrying unverified and false stories as part of this campaign.Between  80,000 and 100,000 people were killed in the ethnic war between the  military and the LTTE, which had sought a separate state for the Sri  Lankan Tamils, alleging discrimination against the minority community at  the hands of the majority Sinhalas.PTI</blockquote>

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