Students who have been mobilised to engage in political activities, in the past, were killed and left on roadsides, warned the Sri Lankan president when commenting on political mobilisation using social media sites such as Facebook.
Speaking at a function at the Panduwasnuwara National School, Mahinda Rajapaksa told parents to prevent their children from engaging in political movements on Facebook and called on political parties to avoid using students for political purposes, reports DailyMirror.lk.
“There were about sixty thousand names of those killed in a list I had compiled. Even Prabhakaran used the school children for his terrorist activities, the result of which we witnessed during the war,” said the Sri Lankan president.
Speaking at a function at the Panduwasnuwara National School, Mahinda Rajapaksa told parents to prevent their children from engaging in political movements on Facebook and called on political parties to avoid using students for political purposes, reports DailyMirror.lk.
“There were about sixty thousand names of those killed in a list I had compiled. Even Prabhakaran used the school children for his terrorist activities, the result of which we witnessed during the war,” said the Sri Lankan president.