{"id":112417,"date":"2021-03-07T16:13:33","date_gmt":"2021-03-07T23:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=112417"},"modified":"2021-03-07T16:13:33","modified_gmt":"2021-03-07T23:13:33","slug":"accept-blame-for-not-able-to-prevent-easter-sunday-attacks-sajith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/03\/07\/accept-blame-for-not-able-to-prevent-easter-sunday-attacks-sajith\/","title":{"rendered":"Accept blame for not able to prevent Easter Sunday attacks: Sajith"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa today said, they are ready to accept responsibility for not being able to prevent the Easter Sunday attacks as a member of the previous regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also called for a proper probe to identify the real perpetrators who were behind the attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking during the Opposition Leader&#8217;s mobile service programme in Bundala, Mr. Premadasa said it is the people\u2019s desire to see a real transparent probe taking place to find the real culprits behind the Easter Sunday attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;It is the view of the people that the real criminals behind the Easter Sunday attacks are roaming freely at the moment. This is not a story that was fabricated by me, it the opinion of the common man in this country. Therefore a transparent probe is a paramount need at this moment,\u201d Mr. Premadasa said,.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The official stance of my party is that the terrorists and the drug traffickers and drug peddlers should be subject to capital punishment. It should be introduced through a legislation in Parliament. Some are criticising me for having taken this stand. However are we to keep the criminals in prisons throughout their lives using public funds?\u201d he questioned.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka should find out as to why there is no terrorism and\/or drug trafficking in Singapore, and should introduce a same set of laws here as well,\u201d he stressed.(<strong>Yohan<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Perera<\/strong>&nbsp;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa today said, they are ready to accept responsibility for not being able to prevent the Easter Sunday attacks as a member of the previous regime. He also called for a proper probe to identify the real perpetrators who were behind the attack. Speaking during the Opposition Leader&#8217;s [&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-112417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112417","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=112417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}