{"id":107254,"date":"2020-10-03T15:56:27","date_gmt":"2020-10-03T22:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=107254"},"modified":"2020-10-03T15:56:43","modified_gmt":"2020-10-03T22:56:43","slug":"are-the-tamils-living-in-this-country-indians-or-sri-lankans-how-long-are-they-going-to-irritate-a-nation-like-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/10\/03\/are-the-tamils-living-in-this-country-indians-or-sri-lankans-how-long-are-they-going-to-irritate-a-nation-like-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Are the Tamils living in this country Indians or Sri Lankans: how long are they going to irritate a Nation like this?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">Dr. Sudath Gunasekara.Mahanuwara<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Govt\ncannot escape Indian pressure\u201d: Sampanthan TNA Leader&nbsp; (news item)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the latest statement from\nSambandan on the ongoing debate about the abolition of the 13<sup>th<\/sup>\nAmendment. Although this is nothing new going by the regular statements and\nappeals they have made to the Indian Government and the so-called anti-Sri\nLankan and anti-Sinhala Buddhist International community. I raised this issue firstly,\nto open a public debate on this subject and secondly, to draw the serious\nattention of the Government to put these anti&#8211;Sinhala and Anti-Sri Lankan\nTamils in their correct place. Thirdly to request both India and International\nlobbying groups to advice the Tamil politician, to sort out these internal\nmatters with the Government of this country and mind their own business without\ninterfering unnecessarily in our domestic matters. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also request the general public of\nthis country to tell the Government they have elected to ask these Tamil\npoliticians to think and behave like citizens of this country or get back to\ntheir ancestral motherlands without creating unnecessary problems for us. None\nof these Tamils making &nbsp;and issuing such\ntraitorous statements, making &nbsp;representations and appeals to India and the\nWest have voted this Government. In this backdrop it is the government of the\ncountry that has to take proper steps to stop this nuisance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is high time at least now these\nmad minorities realize the political realities within this Island nation and learn\nto co-exist with native Sinhalese without continuing to be a painful thorn in\ntheir eyes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Sudath Gunasekara.Mahanuwara Govt cannot escape Indian pressure\u201d: Sampanthan TNA Leader&nbsp; (news item) This is the latest statement from Sambandan on the ongoing debate about the abolition of the 13th Amendment. Although this is nothing new going by the regular statements and appeals they have made to the Indian Government and the so-called anti-Sri Lankan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-sudath-gunasekara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107254","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=107254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}