{"id":103205,"date":"2020-06-05T15:28:52","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T22:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=103205"},"modified":"2020-06-05T15:28:52","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T22:28:52","slug":"an-open-letter-to-he-the-president-of-sri-lanka-on-the-ill-bred-conduct-of-an-american-diplomat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/06\/05\/an-open-letter-to-he-the-president-of-sri-lanka-on-the-ill-bred-conduct-of-an-american-diplomat\/","title":{"rendered":"An Open Letter to HE the President of Sri Lanka on the Ill-bred Conduct of an American Diplomat"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Issued by The Sri Lanka Study Circle<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>We, the members of\nthe Sri Lanka Study Circle in the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, a\nfounding member of the Non-Aligned Movement, were shocked to learn from a\nreputed local television channel that on 04 June 2020, an American diplomat,\nbrushing aside officers performing their duties, had forcibly and illegally\nentered our country, refusing to submit himself to the WHO approved PCR\n(Polymerase chain reaction) test for COVID 19. The incident had taken place at\nthe International Airport in Katunayake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We, as citizens of\nthis country, condemn outright, the churlish and boorish behaviour of this\n\u2018ugly\u2019 American who has brazenly flouted our laws, undermined the authority of\nthe executives of the Sri Lanka government and above all, endangered the lives\nof a 22 Million people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are acutely aware\nthat America has lost its fight against COVID19, with thousands dying daily on\ntheir streets and being buried in unmarked mass graves. We are equally aware\nthat Sri Lanka is successfully battling the virus, with just 11 deaths as at\npresent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If subsequent to this\nincident, there is an upsurge in infections and thousands were to die, we place\nthis uncouth American and his Ambassador on notice for the deaths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We take this opportunity\nto applaud and recognise the disciplined and committed officials who took a\nprincipled stand at the airport and expect your Excellency to commend them\npublicly for their actions and thereby give confidence to the people and all\ngovernment employees that you stand by your subordinates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The actions of this\ncoarse American have denigrated our sovereignty and our National pride; he\ngives the impression that he has a mindset of those policemen who murdered\nGeorge Floyd in cold blood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We expect Your\nExcellency to take stern action against this uncivilised American who continues\nto remain in the country, illegally. We expect you to summon the American\nAmbassador, issue a warning to her and declare this ugly American, persona non\ngrata in this country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Issued by The Sri Lanka Study Circle We, the members of the Sri Lanka Study Circle in the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, a founding member of the Non-Aligned Movement, were shocked to learn from a reputed local television channel that on 04 June 2020, an American diplomat, brushing aside officers performing their duties, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[162],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sri-lanka-study-circle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}