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    • Ruwan Wijewardene: Debt increase 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 7/28/2022)
      TRUE: Some people in the present government say that the country has come to this situation because we [yahapalana government] took loans. 80% of the loans we took were used for settling the loans obtained by Mahinda ...

    • Ruwan Wijewardene: Health Allocations 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 1/7/2021)
      PARTLY TRUE: The amount allocated for the Health Ministry while this crisis is ongoing is Rs. 158 billion for 2021, that’s down Rs. 20 billion from 2019… You can see where the government’s priorities are. - Ruwan Wijewardene, ...

    • S. M. Marikkar: COVID-19 Vaccination 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 6/18/2021)
      PARTLY TRUE: Not even 2 million of the Sri Lankan population has been vaccinated as of now. We have vaccinated the least number of people in the region. - S.M. Marikkar, Aruna, 26 May 2021

    • Sagala Ratnayaka: Health and Education Budget Allocation 

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      FactCheck       (factchecklka - Facebook, 2/27/2019)
      FALSE: Last year the allocation for the education and health sectors in the country made up 25% of the total budget. - Sagala Ratnayaka, Mawbima, 4 February 2019

    • Sajith Premadasa: Fisheries Industry 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 7/1/2021)
      TRUE: The fisheries industry contributes to 1.1% of Sri Lanka's GDP, according to the 2019 CBSL report. - Sajith Premadasa, Divaina, 3 June 2021

    • Sajith Premadasa: Fuel price reduction 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 5/6/2020)
      PARTLY TRUE: The price of a litre of 95 octane petrol is Rs. 161 and this can be priced at Rs. 94. A litre of super diesel is sold at Rs. 132 and this price can be reduced to Rs. 77. A litre of diesel is sold at Rs. 104 ...

    • Sajith Premadasa: Fuel pricing 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 5/6/2020)
      PARTLY TRUE: A litre of diesel is sold at Rs. 104 and this can be reduced to Rs. 61. A litre of 92 octane petrol is Rs. 137; it can be priced at Rs. 80. - Sajith Premadasa, The Island, 11 March 2020

    • Sajith Premadasa: Government's tax revenue 

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      FactCheck       (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

    • Sajith Premadasa: Income inequality 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 10/3/2019)
      FALSE: While the richest 20 per cent enjoy 54 per cent of the national income, the poorest 20 per cent of the country enjoys only 4 percent of it. - Sajith Premadasa, Lankadeepa, 9 July 2019

    • Sajith Premadasa: Sugar Scam 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 9/9/2021)
      TRUE: Sri Lanka has lost Rs. 20 billion as a result of the sugar scam. - Sajith Premadasa, Official Facebook page of Sajith Premadasa, 27 August 2021

    • Sajith Premadasa: Women in politics 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 1/24/2020)
      TRUE: …[we] have not been able to increase representation [of women] in parliament. Even today, representation of women in our parliament is at a level of 5.8%. Our government was able to increase representation of women ...

    • Sanath Nishantha: GDP growth rankings of Sri Lanka and China 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 8/26/2021)
      BLATANTLY FALSE: When we handed over the country to the Yahapalanaya government, China had the highest GDP growth rate in the world, and Sri Lanka was second. - Sanath Nishantha, Lankadeepa, 30 July 2021

    • Sarath Weerasekera: National Flag 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk , 3/24/2022)
      FALSE: No one will be allowed to distort & disrespect the national flag of our Motherland. Anyone found so shall be thoroughly investigated and charged accordingly under the provisions of our Penal Code.– Official twitter ...

    • Sencholai bombings: How did the press cover it? 

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      Media Team       (c, 8/11/2019)
      The manner in which the Sinhala and Tamil press reported the bombings in Sencholai in 2006. Sinhala press - 00 articles Tamil press - 19 articles

    • Shantha Bandara: Finance Act 2021 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 10/21/2021)
      TRUE:…noteworthy is the fact that [the Finance Act No. 18 of 2021] will not invalidate the Prevention of Money Laundering Act or any other finance law in the country. - Shantha Bandara, Divaina, 10 September 2021

    • Shavendra Silva: A war hero for the Sinhala press, an accused war criminal for the Tamil press 

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      Media Team       (Colombo: Veritè Research, 10/1/2019)
      The entry includes the English writeup of how the Sinhala and Tamil press perceived Army Commander Shavendra Silva.

    • Sinhala and Tamil Language Press Coverage of the Office on Missing Persons (OMP) 

      Media Team (Veritè Research, 2019)
      The manner in which theSinhala and Tamil press reported on the Office on Missing Persons

    • Sinhala Press Coverage of COVID-19: January-March 2020 

      Ethics Eye Team (Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-04-03)
      On 03 April 2020 Ethics Eye published an infographic summarising the number of times Aruna, Dinamina, Divaina, Lankadeepa, Mawbima (and their Sunday variants) violated the media ethics guidelines while reporting on COVID-19

    • Siripala Gamlath: UNHRC Resolution 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 3/19/2020)
      FALSE: The other dangerous consequence of co-sponsoring [UNHRC Resolution 30/1] is that this country’s ‘war heroes’ can be taken before an international court at any instance. - Siripala Gamlath, Divaina, Aruna, 25 February 2020

    • Sirisena meets with the TNA regarding political prisoners 

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      Media Team       (Colombo: Veritè Research, 2/20/2019)
      The entry contains writeups pertaining to the manner in which the the meeting between President Maithripala Sirisena and TNA on political prisoners was reported in the Sinhala and Tamil press. The entry also includes 4 ...