{"id":112836,"date":"2021-03-19T16:18:59","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T23:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=112836"},"modified":"2021-03-19T16:19:21","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T23:19:21","slug":"destructive-fake-posts-being-circulated-is-the-jvp-responsible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/03\/19\/destructive-fake-posts-being-circulated-is-the-jvp-responsible\/","title":{"rendered":"Destructive Fake Posts being circulated. Is the JVP responsible?."},"content":{"rendered":"

By Raj Gonsalkorale<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

Following\nare some posts that are being circulated depicting what are labelled as Fake\nPosts and Original Posts. Looking at these, it does appear there is a deliberate\ncampaign to discredit the government by interested parties who are resorting to\nunprofessional, unethical anti-national tactics. This needs to be investigated\nas a matter of priority by the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nJVP has been linked to this campaign although there is no evidence to justify\nsuch a linkage if indeed there is one. A link to the JVP is indicated on the\nFake posters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Highlighting\nany attempts made by political supporters of the government, and generally any\npolitician or any other person in authority or business men and women, to\ndestroy Sri Lanka\u2019s valuable forests for short term gain has to be exposed.\nHowever, it needs to be done truthfully, ethically and based on fact. If any\nperson or an entity, political or otherwise, is engaging in campaigns that are\nunlawful as well, then such persons and\/or entities have to be taken to courts\nand charged under the relevant laws of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\nis also well for the government, and the country at large, for current laws to\nbe studied, and if the punishment for anti-national acts of this nature needs\nto be revamped, then, that too needs to be done. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\ntruth about destruction has to be known and wanton carnage that some suspect is\ngoing on under the guise of development has to be exposed. These sources say\nthat a recent gazette notification permitting Provincial Secretaries to permit\nthe use of what is called unproductive land which are is not protected land,\nsuch as forests and wild life protected sanctuaries and which, villagers say\ncould be used by them for minor crop agriculture or cattle grazing, is being\nmisused and provincial Secretaries are being pressured by politicians to allow\nthese lands to be used for larger scale agriculture and other projects. In the\nprocess, even protected land and valuable forest cover is being affected as\nencroachment is occurring into protected land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\ngovernment has to investigate whether some of these alleged activities in fact\nare occurring, and take those responsible to task if indeed they happening. The\ngovernment perhaps should hire an independent entity to investigate, video\nrecord any instances where this has happened so that action could be taken\nagainst persons responsible for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On\nthe one hand, it is a crime to destroy the country\u2019s forests, but it is also a\ncrime to spread fake news and mislead the public. Those who are doing this are\nthen on an equal footing to the ones who are allegedly destroying the forests.\nBoth are criminals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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By Raj Gonsalkorale Following are some posts that are being circulated depicting what are labelled as Fake Posts and Original Posts. Looking at these, it does appear there is a deliberate campaign to discredit the government by interested parties who are resorting to unprofessional, unethical anti-national tactics. This needs to be investigated as a matter […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-raj-gonsalkorale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112836","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=112836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}