{"id":106974,"date":"2020-09-25T15:14:57","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T22:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=106974"},"modified":"2020-09-25T15:14:57","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T22:14:57","slug":"ex-pm-often-left-during-national-security-council-meetings-ruwan-tells-pcoi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/09\/25\/ex-pm-often-left-during-national-security-council-meetings-ruwan-tells-pcoi\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-PM often left during National Security Council meetings \u2013 Ruwan tells PCoI"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Former State Minister of Defence, Deputy UNP Leader Ruwan Wijewardene testified before the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) probing the Easter Sunday terror attacks on Thursday (24).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Responding to a question raised by the panel, he said the former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe often times left during the National Security Council meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also revealed that former President Maithripala Sirisena had instructed the commanders of the Tri-forces not to meet with the former Prime Minister if they are summoned in his absence.<\/p>\n\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=\"\u0d86\u0dbb\u0d9a\u0dca\u0dc2\u0d9a \u0d9a\u0dc0\u0dd4\u0db1\u0dca\u0dc3\u0dd2\u0dbd\u0dba\u0dda \u0dbb\u0dd0\u0dc3\u0dca\u0dc0\u0dd3\u0db8\u0dca \u0d85\u0dad\u0dbb\u0dad\u0dd4\u0dbb\u0daf\u0dd3 \u0dc4\u0dd2\u0da7\u0db4\u0dd4 \u0d85\u0d9c\u0db8\u0dd0\u0dad\u0dd2 \u0db6\u0ddc\u0dc4\u0ddd \u0d85\u0dc0\u0dc3\u0dca\u0dae\u0dcf\u0dc0\u0dbd\u0daf\u0dd3 \u0db4\u0dd2\u0da7\u0dc0 \u0d9c\u0dd2\u0dba\u0dcf... \u0dbb\u0dd4\u0dc0\u0db1\u0dca \u0dc0\u0dd2\u0da2\u0dda\u0dc0\u0dbb\u0dca\u0db0\u0db1\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GYHXoGWB7PY?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><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Former State Minister of Defence, Deputy UNP Leader Ruwan Wijewardene testified before the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) probing the Easter Sunday terror attacks on Thursday (24). Responding to a question raised by the panel, he said the former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe often times left during the National Security Council meetings. He [&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-106974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106974","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=106974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}