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    • Mavai Senathirajah: Lands released in the North 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 9/11/2019)
      TRUE: 75% of the lands occupied by the security forces in the Northern Province have been released to the public. - Mavai Senathirajah, Dinamina, 16 August 2019

    • Ranil Wickremesinghe: Rajapaksa era exports 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 9/5/2019)
      PARTLY TRUE: In the ten years of the Rajapaksa administration, this country’s exports fell from 30% to 18%. - Ranil Wickremesinghe, Divaina, 12 August 2019

    • Udaya Gammanpila: Powers of Executive Presidency 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 9/29/2019)
      FALSE: …there has been no major change from the Presidency before the 19th Amendment to the current office of the president. Only three powers of the presidency were removed by the 19th Amendment. - Udaya Gammanpila, ...

    • Ashok Abeysinghe: Passenger transport 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 8/7/2019)
      TRUE: As of now, the number of passengers travelling by train is about 400,000… In [bus] passenger transport, the private sector does about 75%, and SLTB buses do 25%. - Ashok Abeysinghe, Divaina, June 24

    • Eran Wickramaratne: Female Labour Force Participation 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 10/24/2019)
      TRUE: Sri Lanka’s Labour Force Participation (LFP) was 36% for women versus 75% for men in 2016, which is the 14th largest gender gap in LFP globally. In 2016, young women have the highest unemployment rate in Sri Lanka; ...

    • Maithripala Sirisena: SOE losses 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 7/24/2019)
      TRUE: The Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) and Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) incur losses in the tens of millions [of rupees] per day. - Maithripala Sirisena, Divaina, 4 June 2019

    • Ranjith Madduma Bandara: Drowning statistics 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 7/25/2019)
      About 800 deaths due to drowning are reported annually.

    • Vijitha Herath: Interest Payments and Government Income 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 7/10/2019)
      FALSE: According to the 2018 Central Bank Annual Report, when the total income was Rs. 1,920 billion, the interest payments were at Rs. 2,088 billion. There was a deficit of Rs. 168 billion. - Vijitha Herath, Divaina, 28 May 2019

    • Eran Wickramaratne: Tourism Percentage of GDP 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 7/10/2019)
      TRUE: Sri Lanka’s tourism sector accounts for 5% of gross domestic product. - Eran Wickramaratne, Dinamina, 22 May 2019

    • Tilak Marapana: Release of military acquired lands 

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      FactCheck       (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 ...

    • COVID-19: Is ethnicity relevant? 

      Ethics Eye Team (Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-03-20)
      On 19 March 2020 Mawbima published a news item on COVID-19 that emphasised irrelevant details including the ethnicity of a patient and (negative) details about patients

    • Ranil Wickremesinghe: Penal code on foreign terrorist organizations 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 5/2/2019)
      FALSE: “To take part in a foreign armed uprising is not an offence here…. there is no law to prevent you from that." - Ranil Wickremesinghe, Interview with SkyNews, 26 April 2019

    • Thalatha Atukorale: Prison statistics 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 5/23/2019)
      PARTLY TRUE: There are close to 22,000 inmates in prisons. Of them, a large number is serving sentences that are less than two years. - Thalatha Atukorale, Dinamina, 10 April 2019

    • John Amaratunga: Tourism earnings 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 5/16/2019)
      TRUE: When he took office in 2015, there were 1.5 million tourist arrivals and in 2018, it increased to 2.3 million. Tourism revenue was USD 2.5 billion and reached USD 4.3 billion in the same time period. - John Amaratunga, ...

    • Maithripala Sirisena: Women in the public sector 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 6/6/2019)
      FALSE: of [public sector employees], 70% are women. - Maithripala Sirisena, Dinamina, 28 March 2019

    • Mangala Samaraweera: Rupee appreciation 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 4/11/2019)
      TRUE: "During the past 2 months, the rupee has appreciated by 2.5%." - Mangala Samaraweera, Daily News, 13 March 2019

    • Harshana Rajakaruna: MPs not speaking in Parliament 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 3/28/2019)
      TRUE: As a whole, 95% of MPs have spoken [in parliament in 2018]. It is only 5% who haven't spoken. - Harshana Rajakaruna, Silumina, 3 March 2019

    • Rajitha Senaratne: Cigarette taxes 

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      FactCheck       (factchecklka - Facebook, 3/14/2019)
      FALSE: "We have acted appropriately against the use of tobacco and imposed a 90% tax on tobacco in an attempt to reduce tobacco usage." - Rajitha Senaratne, Daily News, 20 February 2019

    • Mahinda Rajapaksa: Debt 

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      FactCheck       (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 ...

    • Rajitha Senaratne: WHO on SL Health Service Rank 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 5/30/2019)
      FALSE: Within the world healthcare system, the fact that the best health service is provided by Cuba and Sri Lanka has been accepted by the World Health Organization. - Rajitha Senaratne, Mawbima, 4 February 2019