Sri Lanka Army to Protect Rajapaksa's Smile

( December 10, 2014, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) With the beginning of the presidential election Army soldiers in Colombo have been deployed to protect cut-outs of the presidential candidate Mahinda Rajapaksa say report

They have been instructed to arrange their patrols to cover where Mr. Rajapaksa’s cutouts have been put up. They have also been ordered to take to camps all cut-outs that have been defaced, damaged, disfigured or broken down before early morning.

A private company has been assigned to replace the cut-outs removed by Army personnel say reports.