Rajapaksas & friends thought they owned this country - CBK slams

Former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga today slammed the Rajapaksas saying that the actions taken by the Rajapaksa regimes had led to the serious crisis situation in the country.

"Not only the Rajapaksas, but the government representatives around them, their friends, and associates are also to be blamed for the prevailing crisis," she said during the opening of the new office of the ‘Nawa Lanka Freedom Party’ in Battaramulla. 

The party is led by former minister and Kalutara District parliamentarian Kumara Welgama.

Speaking during the opening, te former president said that the Rajapaksa regimes and those who ruled the country after 2005 had thought they owned this country and its assets. " They thought they can act in any manner they want and that they can get away with anything, every the dirty work they do," she said.

She said if anyone raised objections against the regimes action, they were killed.