Discipline is not revenge. The nation can only be built through commitment, discipline and elimination of corruption. - Mahinda Rajapaksa

The message to my people is that I am concentrating on development work. I want to make Sri Lanka a hub for the development of knowledge, energy, commerce, naval transportation, and aviation. To achieve that, our people must stay together, rally round the government and achieve it – for the people. To the international community, my message is they must understand our position. We defeated terrorists, not freedom fighters. The whole world is facing this problem. So they must realise what we have achieved and help to develop the country, develop the North-East. They must help us not to widen the gap between the communities but to bring them closer. The past is past; you don't dig into the wounds. We must think positively, not negatively.

I say: be fair. Be objective. Don't just come to conclusions based on one-sided "evidence."

If anyone who wants to complain about human rights violations in Sri Lanka, whether it's torture, whether it is rape, we have a system.