When the Sri Lankan Government took action to impose the curfew, banning the social media and declaring the State of Emergency to control the Sinhala-Muslim unrest in the Kandy District in March, there were undue pressures from certain diplomats on the Government, President Maithripala Sirisena said on Tuesday in London.<\/p>\n
\u201cCertain diplomats spoke against the Government moves to take necessary action-including banning access to social media sites. Some of the diplomats acted beyond their mandate against the move,\u201d the President told a group of Sri Lanka community in London Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut despite those oppositions, the Government had taken necessary action, and because of that we able to prevent a major tragedy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The President also said that at that time, an organization connected to the UN had stated that Sri Lanka had managed to impose a complete ban on the social media sites-something even the US couldn\u2019t do.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlmost all the international organizations welcomed the Government move to ban social media, and many parents of school children and others told me that it was a good move and requested not to remove the ban,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The President said that about 75% of the media reports on the Kandy unrest incidents were completely wrong.<\/p>\n
\u201cThose wrong information reached to the Sri Lankan diaspora, who eventually come to a wrong conclusion about the country\u2019s situation,\u201d the President said.<\/p>\n
He requested the members of the Sri Lankan community, who were present at the meeting, not to depend only on social media for credible information.<\/p>\n
A large number of the Sri Lankan community living in London participated.<\/p>\n
Ministers Mangala Samaraweera, Nimal Siripala de Silva, Rishad Bathiudeen and acting Sri Lankan High Commissioner in London Sugeeswara Gunaratne were also present.<\/p>\n
Courtesy: Daily Mirror<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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