{"id":104050,"date":"2020-06-29T15:39:06","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T22:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=104050"},"modified":"2020-06-29T15:39:06","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T22:39:06","slug":"fmr-minister-acknowledges-premadasa-govt-gave-weapons-to-ltte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/06\/29\/fmr-minister-acknowledges-premadasa-govt-gave-weapons-to-ltte\/","title":{"rendered":"Fmr Minister acknowledges Premadasa govt. gave weapons to LTTE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0db4\u0dca\u200d\u0dbb\u0dda\u0db8\u0daf\u0dcf\u0dc3 \u0d86\u0dab\u0dca\u0da9\u0dd4\u0dc0\u0dd9\u0db1\u0dca \u0d91\u0dbd\u0dca \u0da7\u0dd3 \u0da7\u0dd3 \u0d8a \u0dba\u0da7 \u0d85\u0dc0\u0dd2 \u0d86\u0dba\u0dd4\u0db0 \u0daf\u0dd4\u0db1\u0dca \u0db6\u0dc0 \u0dc4\u0dd2\u0da7\u0db4\u0dd4 \u0d87\u0db8\u0dad\u0dd2 \u0db4\u0dd2\u0dc5\u0dd2\u0d9c\u0db1\u0dd3\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gqLdMm-RpKk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Former Minister of Ranasinghe Premadasa\u2018s government Gamini Jayawickrama Perera admits that the then-government provided weapons to the terrorist organization LTTE during the civil war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perera mentioned this addressing a public meeting held in Kurunegala, yesterday (28).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He says that the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) signed agreements with LTTE Leader Velupillai Prabhakaran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ranasinghe Premadasa vowed to chase away the IPKF from Sri Lanka when he was a presidential candidate, which resulted in IPKF teaching Varadaraja Perumal, then-Chief Minister of the North Eastern Province, to establish his own army and to declare a separate flag for the North Eastern Province instead of the Sri Lankan flag, said Perera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, Premadasa did not send Sri Lankan armies against this as ceasefire talks were ongoing between Premadasa and Prabhakaran at that time, claims Perera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perera further said that he can responsibly state that then-President Ranasinghe Premadasa provided weapons to LTTE to defeat the IPKF and Varadaraja Perumal\u2019s armies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then the IPKF had to leave the country, he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Former Minister of Ranasinghe Premadasa\u2018s government Gamini Jayawickrama Perera admits that the then-government provided weapons to the terrorist organization LTTE during the civil war. Perera mentioned this addressing a public meeting held in Kurunegala, yesterday (28). He says that the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) signed agreements with LTTE Leader Velupillai Prabhakaran. Ranasinghe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104050","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=104050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}