Browsing Media by Subject "Gotabaya Rajapaksa"
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Gotabaya Rajapaksa: Child disability statistics
(www.factcheck.lk, 2/27/2020)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 -
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: GDP growth
(www.factcheck.lk, 7/2/2020)PARTLY TRUE: Prior to 2015, the economic growth rate was between 7% and 8%, but by 2019, it fell below 2%. - Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Divaina, 16 June 2020 -
Gotabaya Rajapaksa: International Sovereign Bonds
(www.factcheck.lk , 6/26/2022)PARTLY TRUE: Every month we have to repay the loans that previous governments had obtained for various reasons. On ISBs, by 2015, we had only taken out USD 5 billion worth of them. During the time of the previous government, ... -
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: Release of military occupied land
(www.factcheck.lk, 10/31/2019)FALSE: "We are the people who released 90% of the land" - Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Inaugural Press Conference, 16 October 2019