Protests against Rajitha continue : Chathura  Senaratne answers to criticisms about his father

Several protests were reported from around the island against cabinet spokesperson Minister Rajitha Senaratne for his controversial statements regarding the war memorial ceremonies in the North and about the LTTE leader Prabhakaran. 

At a war commemoration event held yesterday in Chilaw, yet another protest was staged claiming Senaratne had insulted war heroes of the country by his statement at last weeks cabinet press briefing. An effigy of the Minister was also set on fire during the protest. 

However answering to the criticism levelled against his father, MP Chathura Senaratne said his father can differentiate between a terrorist and a war hero while it cannot be helped if the media and certain others get the two confused. 

He also claimed that his father made great sacrifices to support Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa to end terrorism in the country. He made these statements at an event held in Mawanella. 

According to Chathura, his father along with several other top politicians was in the LTTEs kill list and no other politician in the South was harassed by the LTTE more than his father, Rajitha Senaratne he said. Chathura also claimed that his father continues to live with two fragments of a bomb after the bomb blast in Thotalanga and is the only politician currently to do so.