{"id":117987,"date":"2021-09-09T15:57:28","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T22:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=117987"},"modified":"2021-09-09T16:02:08","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T23:02:08","slug":"knife-wielding-assailant-at-auckland-nz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/09\/09\/knife-wielding-assailant-at-auckland-nz\/","title":{"rendered":"Knife-wielding assailant at Auckland, NZ"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr.Preethi Rajapakse\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Your\nExcellency the High Commissioner for NZ in SL<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the first place, I was shocked by the event and my sympathies go to the injured and their friends and relatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, I was disappointed by the publicity following the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Immediately after the incident, the PM of NZ went on TV to say that the assailant was a Sri Lanka nationals. It is unfortunate that she did not emphasize that he had been residing in NZ for 10-11 years and that he had come to NZ as a student<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following the incident, the family of the assassin issued a statement I believe to Reuter. In that statement they were magnanimous. They said they had been on a trip to NZ and they admired your country and the people of N Z.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They also said \u00a0that in several telephone conversations the alleged assassin \u00a0seemed to be disturbed and that his family members in this country tried to dissuade him from his recently acquired radical views\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\nis clear at least to me that he was indoctrinated or radicalized during his\nstay in NZ<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nmain purpose of my letter is to point out to the authorities in NZ that there\nmay be other cells in NZ waiting to indoctrinate and radicalize inexperienced\nand naive students who come to your country.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope steps could be taken to find out how this student was indoctrinated since coming to NZ and to prevent such occurrences in the future\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yours\nsincerely&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr.Preethi\nRajapakse&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr.Preethi Rajapakse\u00a0 Your Excellency the High Commissioner for NZ in SL In the first place, I was shocked by the event and my sympathies go to the injured and their friends and relatives. However, I was disappointed by the publicity following the incident. Immediately after the incident, the PM of NZ went on TV to [&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-117987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117987","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=117987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}