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Sunanda Madduma Bandara: Local Government elections
(www.factcheck.lk, 11/23/2023)FALSE: […] all the local government elections held after 1991 have been postponed without being held within the stipulated time. […] Sunanda Madduma Bandara, Lankadeepa, 25 October 2023 -
Mahindananda Aluthgamage: Credit cards and tax files
(www.factcheck.lk, 11/25/2021)BLATANTLY FALSE: There are nearly 1,000 tax files in our country. There are over 10 million credit cards in our country. Each credit card holder does transactions of nearly Rs. 1 million to 1.5 million. - Mahindananda ... -
Anura Kumara Dissanayake: Foreign debt payment
(www.factcheck.lk, 11/26/2020)TRUE: We have to pay close to USD 400 million a month in [foreign] debt. - Anura Kumara Dissanayake, Lankadeepa, 12 October 2020 -
Udaya Gammanpila: Muslim population growth
(www.factcheck.lk, 11/28/2019)BLATANTLY FALSE: In comparison to the 5 to 9 age group, the Sinhala population in the 0 to 4 age group has increased by 0.5%. But the Muslim population has increased by 1.4%, or threefold… When considering the trends in ... -
Protest in Kantale against Maaveerar naal
(Colombo: Veritè Research, 11/29/2018)The entry contains writeups in Sinhala, Tamil and English pertaining to the manner in which the protest in Kantale against Maaveerar Naal was reported in the Sinhala and Tamil press. The entry also includes 2 images of ... -
Buddhist Archaeological sites under attack
(Colombo: Veritè Research, 11/30/2019)Based on a discussion with the Ellawala Medanandha Thera, Lakbima reports that Buddhist archeological sites in the North and the East have recently come under attack in unprecedented ways. The thera points out that even ... -
Gayantha Karunatilleka: Students-to-academic staff ratio
(www.factcheck.lk, 11/30/2023)FALSE: Although the number of academic staff is dwindling [in recent months], the annual intake of students at universities has doubled since 2017. Gayantha Karunatilleka, NewsFirst, 19 October 2023 -
Udaya Gammanpila: Fuel Imports
(www.factcheck.lk, 11/4/2021)TRUE: Out of the total import expenditure, fuel is the foremost import item upon which more than 20% is spent. - Udaya Gammanpila, Dinamina, 1 October 2021 -
Anura Kumara Dissanayake: Rape statistics
(www.factcheck.lk, 11/6/2019)TRUE: 1,600 [young] girls are raped every year - Anura Kumara Dissanayake, Divaina, 25 October 2019 -
Ranil Wickremesinghe: Government Revenue
(www.factcheck.lk, 11/6/2020)FALSE: "When I was the Prime Minister, the government revenue was LKR 150,000 million. The revenue last month was LKR 50,000 million. LKR 90,000 million is needed to pay the salaries and pensions of the public servants." ... -
Ranil Wickremesinghe: Money printing
(www.factcheck.lk, 11/9/2023)TRUE: We put the Central Bank there [in charge] without meddling in it. Henceforth, according to the law, we won’t be able to print money. We have lost our ability to borrow (obtain loans) from the Bank of Ceylon and the ... -
Mahinda Rajapaksa: economic growth
(factchecklka - Facebook, 12/10/2018)FALSE: In the nine years I was in power, I increased the GDP per capita of this country by a multiple of three. In that period, the economic growth rate was 7.4%. - Mahinda Rajapaksa, 25 November 2018, Derana TV -
Sudath Samaraweera: Community transmission
(www.factcheck.lk, 12/11/2020)FALSE: “If positive cases are reported without the origin, then it can be identified as a community transmission. In other words, community transmission takes place when cases are reported with no connection to the existing ... -
Harsha de Silva: Multidimensional poverty
(www.factcheck.lk, 12/14/2023)PARTLY TRUE: The World Bank states that the poverty level which was at 13% in 2019 has by today, increased to at least 25%. The multidimensional Poverty Vulnerability of Oxford University and UNDP (sic) states that when ... -
W.D.J. Seneviratne: Foreign and central government debt
(www.factcheck.lk, 12/16/2021)FALSE: At the time when Hon. Mahinda Rajapaksa handed over the government, we had only 72% of foreign loans. However, soon after the Yahapalana government, when we came into power that percentage has been increased up to ... -
Ranjith Madduma Bandara: Crime reduction statistics
(www.factcheck.lk, 12/18/2019)PARTLY TRUE: During the last four years, the rates of all forms of crime […] declined drastically […] under this government compared to the previous Rajapaksa regime. The murder rate which was 646 in 2012 has decreased to ... -
Anura Kumara Dissanayake: Rajapaksa budget
(www.factcheck.lk, 12/2/2021)FALSE: There are 4 Rajapaksas who represent the cabinet. There is also a state minister as well. How much of funds have been allocated to that family—to the ministries they represent? The total expenditure is 5,200 billion ... -
MA Sumanthiran: Tamil journalists
(factchecklka - Facebook, 12/20/2018)PARTLY TRUE: If I remember correctly, [in the past 20 years] 14 Tamil journalists have been murdered. - MA Sumanthiran, 25 October 2018, Mawbima -
Mahinda Rajapaksa: Women in universities
(www.factcheck.lk, 12/20/2019)TRUE: Today, the percentage of women studying in universities exceeds 50 percent. - Mahinda Rajapaksa, Divaina, 2 October 2019 -
Sajith Premadasa: Government's tax revenue
(www.factcheck.lk, 12/4/2020)FALSE: In the first seven months of 2020, the government's tax revenue was reduced by 40.9 percent in comparison with that same period last year. - Sajith Premadasa. Divaina, 7 October 2020