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Housing Development Authority Chairperson Duminda Silva has threatened the journalist Rahula Samantha Hettiarachchi:
00:00 Mar 16 2022 Swarnavahini
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On 16 March 2022 Housing Development Authority chairperson, former Parliamentarian R Duminda Silva had made a threatening call to Swarnawahini correspondent Rahul Samantha asking not to release the recorded footage of an illegal sand mining business in Ambalantota area in Hambantota district. Duminda Silva was previously sentenced to death for the murder of MP Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra and four others on October 8, 2011. He was released on a special presidential pardon in June, 2021 and then appointed as the chairperson of the Housing Development Authority.News Source Link
https://www.newswire.lk/2022/03/17/fmm-raises-concerns-over-duminda-silva-pressurizing-journalist/https://sinhala.srilankabrief.org/?p=40885
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