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Gotabhaya avoids participating in Army Tattoo that was attended by General Fonseka |
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2009-10-19 | 4.45 PM |
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Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa was a notable absentee at the Army Tattoo organized at the Kettarama Stadium to mark the 60th anniversary of the Sri Lanka Army, which was attended by the President and the Chief of Defence Staff General Sarath Fonseka.
A senior Presidential Secretariat official told Lanka News Web that the Defence Secretary left the country on a tour to Singapore to avoid participating at the event.
Meanwhile, at the book launching ceremony of Minister Champika Ranawaka that was held last Friday, was attended by Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa and General Sarath Fonseka did not participate in it.
Although Presidential photographer Sudath Silva tried to capture a photograph of the President
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and General Fonseka engaged in a happy conversation during the Army Tattoo programme, he did not succeed.
Several photographs of the event and of the President and General Fonseka together have been published below. |
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