{"id":107079,"date":"2020-09-29T14:25:47","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T21:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=107079"},"modified":"2020-09-29T14:25:47","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T21:25:47","slug":"special-statement-by-mp-wijedasa-rajapaksa-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/09\/29\/special-statement-by-mp-wijedasa-rajapaksa-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Statement by MP Wijedasa Rajapaksa (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em> Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p> Parliamentarian Dr. Wijedasa Rajapaksa says that if the previous government had paid attention to the statement made by him in Parliament regarding the joining of a group of Sri Lankans to the IS, the Easter attack as well as the loss of power could have been prevented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was giving evidence before the Presidential Commission of Inquiry probing into the Easter attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, MP Mujibur Rahman who testified before the Presidential Commission said that the previous government was inevitably responsible for the Easter attack. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News Parliamentarian Dr. Wijedasa Rajapaksa says that if the previous government had paid attention to the statement made by him in Parliament regarding the joining of a group of Sri Lankans to the IS, the Easter attack as well as the loss of power could have been prevented. This was giving evidence before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107079","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=107079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}