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Last updated: 01 February, 2011 - Published 17:37 GMT
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UNP to Boycott freedom Day celebrations
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The opposition United National Party(UNP) says it will boycott forthcoming independent day celebrations.

The UNP said at a new confernce that it is not in a position to join in independent day clebrations.

General Secretary of the UNP, parliamentarian Tissa Attanayaka said that the government having jailed brave soldiers like Sarath Fonseka who liberated Sri Lanka is collaborating with LTTE ers.

Parliamentarian Dayasiri Jayasekara who addressed the press briefing accused the government for not taking adequate action to safeguard media freedom.

“The government is very good at finding what we are unto but they are unable to find out who attacked Lanka E-News” quarried Jayasekara.

THE UNP says that it will conduct protests on Independence day, 4th of February.

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