Kurunagela MP Mahinda Rajapaksa today denied claims that he had antagonized the Western nations by being photographed with his arm around late Muammar Gaddafi of Libya.
“It is actually Gaddafi who has his arm on my shoulder in that much publicised photograph,” the former President said issuing a two-page statement. 
Mahinda should thank his God that the Sri Lankan people who he and his family looted from are more tolerant than the Libyans.
He also said that It was also said that when foreign dignitaries came to Sri Lanka to persuade Sri Lanka to stop the war. “… I had deliberately insulted them by taking them to Embilipitiya and giving them manioc to eat, and that that resentment was motivating the Western countries to pass resolutions against us. I have no recollection what was on the menu when the British and French foreign ministers met me in the final days of the war demanding that I halt hostilities.”
“But it is certainly true that I refused point blank to halt the war. It is because I did not buckle under foreign pressure that this country is free of terrorism today. Governments are elected by the people of Sri Lanka to do what is best for the country and not to agree to everything said by foreign powers. That applies to the resolution that has just been passed in Geneva as well.”
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