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Sunil Handunnetti: rural population
(factchecklka - Facebook, 12/5/2018)
PARTLY TRUE: 74% of the population of Sri Lanka lives a rural lifestyle/in a rural setting.
- Sunil Handunnetti, 15 October 2018, Divaina
Bandula Gunawardana: Bond Commission report
(factchecklka - Facebook, 11/14/2018)
BLATANTLY FALSE: In early February 2018, Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Jaffna District MP and party spokesman M.A. Sumanthiran sabotaged an adjournment debate on the treasury bond scam report. The newspaper went on to say ...
Tilak Marapana: Release of military acquired lands
(www.factcheck.lk, 6/13/2019)
PARTLY TRUE: Of the 71,172.56 acres of state-owned land occupied by the security forces, 63,257.48 acres were released between May 2009 and 12 March 2019. This is a release of 88.87% of the initially occupied land.
- Tilak ...
Anura Kumara Dissanayake - Provincial GDP = අනුර කුමාර දිසානායක - පළාත් දළ දේශීය නිෂ්පාදිතය = அனுரா குமார திசாநாயக்க - மாகாண மொத்த உள்நாட்டு உற்பத்தி
(factchecklka - Facebook, 10/4/2018)
BLATANTLY FALSE: According to the Annual Report published by the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL), the Western Province contributes to 52% of the GDP of the country…The rest of the provinces in the country collectively ...
Bandula Gunawardana: Active Liability Management Act
(www.factcheck.lk, 9/26/2019)
FALSE: This government passed an act to obtain annual loans from foreigners without limitations. This act was passed by misleadingly naming it the Active Liability Management Act. According to this, they can obtain any ...
Mangala Samaraweera: Media freedom
(factchecklka - Facebook, 11/2/2018)
TRUE: Sri Lanka’s rank in the World Press Freedom Index has moved from 165 to 131.
- Mangala Samaraweera, 28 September 2018, Divaina
Mahinda Rajapaksa: Debt
(factchecklka - Facebook, 3/21/2019)
FALSE: "In the past four years, the UNP-led government has borrowed the equivalent of 50% of the total national debt that was outstanding as at the end of December 2014 from the loans taken in the six decades after gaining ...
Anura Priyadharshana Yapa: mobile phone taxes
(factchecklka - Facebook, 1/9/2019)
PARTLY TRUE: When a mobile phone user in our country pays Rs. 5,000 [as the mobile phone bill], Rs. 1,600 of it goes towards paying taxes.
- ANura Priyadharshana Yapa, 26 October 2018, Divaina
Eran Wickramaratne: All Borrowings Used to Repay Debt
(www.factcheck.lk, 8/22/2019)
PARTLY TRUE: Total borrowings by the Government have been completely used to repay debt.
- Eran Wickramaratne, Daily FT, 19 June 2019
Maithripala Sirisena: absolute poverty
(factchecklka - Facebook, 4/4/2019)
PARTLY TRUE: The absolute poverty ratio of the country has been reported as 6.7%...
- Maithripala Sirisena, 4 February 2019, Independence Day Speech