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“This
country
is our
Motherland
where we
were
born and
where we
have to
breathe
our last
and it
is the
duty of
every
citizen
to
treasure
it more
than
ones own
life,”
said
President
Mahinda
Rajapaksa
at a
meeting
held at
President’s
House,
Kandy
recently.
When
the
footsteps
of an
oppressor
with
dictatorial
tendencies
are
heard in
the
vicinity,
the
first
people
who will
rally
round to
counter
him are
the
intellectuals.
Doctors,
engineers,
lawyers,
university
dons,
artistes
and all
other
intellectuals
have now
come
forward
to
perform
their
duty to
the
nation
by
correctly
identifying
this
threat,
he said.
President
Rajapaksa,
who said
that the
strength
and
intellect
of the
country’s
youth
could
never be
suppressed
or
destroyed,
added
that
youth
strength
should
be
utilized
for the
country’s
development
and
progress.
President
Rajapaksa
said
that no
one had
the
right to
betray
the hard
won
freedom
by
making
false
statements
derogatory
of the
heroic
forces
and such
politics
of hate
had very
short
shrift
in this
country.
President
Mahinda
Rajapaksa
addressing
the
representatives
of the
Public
Service
United
Nurses
Union at
the
Temple
Trees
requested
the
people
not to
be
misled
by the
crude
mud
slinging
campaigns
launched
by the
opposition.
The
government
has done
substantial
amount
of work
for the
benefit
of the
nurses.
Decisions
have
been
made and
arrangements
are
underway
to
address
the
basic
issues
of the
nurses,
the
President
said.
Nurses
training
schools
have
been
increased
up to 19
and
their
exams
would be
conferred
degree
status,
he
further
said.
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