Trees Adjoining Wilpattu Cut by the Government

During BBC Sandeshaya  Sinhala live broadcast  Minister of Industry and Commerce  Rishad Bathiudeen was  interviewed. During this interview Minister categorically stated that trees  adjoining Wilpattu forest cut and  felled  down by the Government or  District Secretariat or Timer Corporation or Forest Department to settled refugees.

Further he said, certain groups in the South of Srilanka are getting together to divide  ethnic Sinhala and Muslim people and sling mud on him.