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Dinesh Gunawardena: IDP Resettlement
(www.factcheck.lk, 3/25/2020)
PARTLY TRUE: “Sri Lanka also made significant progress in the resettlement of over 440,000 IDPs … presently it has risen to 93.76%.”
- Dinesh Gunawardena, Daily FT, 28 February 2020
Rohana Bandara: Sri Lanka's debt to China
(www.factcheck.lk, 6/3/2021)
TRUE: 14% of Sri Lanka’s debt is owed to China… - Rohana Bandara, Dinamina, 10 May 2021
Rajitha Senaratne: COVID-19 testing statistics
(www.factcheck.lk, 5/20/2020)
PARTLY TRUE: [The number in Sri Lanka considered to have contracted Covid-19] is determined only by the number of people that have been tested for the virus. Symptoms of Covid-19 appear only in 15% [of the infected]. Others ...
Bandula Gunawardane: Total Exports
(www.factcheck.lk, 2/3/2022)
PARTLY TRUE: Sri Lanka increased exports by 23% amidst challenging environment faced both locally and globally. Total exports are USD 12.3 billion in 2020 and USD15.12 billion in 2021. - Bandula Gunawardane, Official ...
Rajitha Senaratne: Malaria Elimination
(www.factcheck.lk, 8/12/2020)
In 2016, I eliminated Malaria from Sri Lanka.
- Rajitha Senaratne, Divaina, 24 June 2020
Gotabaya Rajapaksa: Foreign Loans
(www.factcheck.lk, 1/27/2022)
FALSE: I have not taken a cent in foreign loans during my two years in office. - Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Newswire, 7 January 2022,
Gotabaya Rajapaksa: Postal Department
(www.factcheck.lk, 11/12/2020)
TRUE: "The Postal Department is currently running at a loss of about Rs 6 billion. It generates an income of Rs 8 billion annually. The department’s expenditure runs to about Rs 14 billion on account of having overtime ...
Gotabaya Rajapaksa: Misinformation on disability data
(www.factcheck.lk, 1/27/2020)
FALSE: In Sri Lanka, 20 percent of children are having a mental or physical disability.
- Gotabaya Rajapaksa, President’s Official Twitter Page, 25 January 2020
Dayasiri Jayasekara: Tourism earnings
(www.factcheck.lk, 7/29/2021)
TRUE: The tourism industry has collapsed completely following the Easter Sunday attacks and following this COVID-19 pandemic. Due to the collapse of the tourism industry, we have lost USD 5 billion per year that the country ...
Ajith Nivard Cabraal: ISB debt
(www.factcheck.lk, 3/26/2021)
PARTLY TRUE: As of now (February 2021), the total ISBs outstanding is USD 14 billion, which is only 16.7 percent of Sri Lanka’s total debt. None of the other creditors who hold 83.3 percent of Sri Lanka’s debt seem to show ...