{"id":118133,"date":"2021-09-14T16:12:04","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T23:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=118133"},"modified":"2021-09-14T16:12:04","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T23:12:04","slug":"easter-bombing-and-fake-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/09\/14\/easter-bombing-and-fake-news\/","title":{"rendered":"EASTER BOMBING AND FAKE NEWS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">RANJITH SOYSA <\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Defence Secretary Gen (retd) Kamal Gunaratne\nrecently made a very sensible statement urging the public not to be misled by\nfalse claims made on Easter carnage. Many fake information concerning the state\nof the investigations are published in some of the main media as well as the\nsocial media which are apparently attempting to fish in troubled waters. The\nsocial media especially is fuelled by the anti -government motives for a long\ntime beginning with series of fake stories on the destruction of the\nenvironment to the cargo ship&nbsp; Xpress\nPearl which caught fire, with disguised commentaries by pointing the finger to\n\u2018corruption\u2019 on the part of the government. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These fake stories move from one subject to\nthe other in quick succession, but the essence is to draw the cork on the\ngovernment and put it at unenviable position. One can easily conclude that the\nfake information programs on social media perhaps is part of a well-organized\nmovement financed and encouraged by foreign and local groups who are promoting\nthe well-known game of regime change in Sri Lanka.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the subject of the investigations into the\nEaster bombing the Defence Secretary specifically mentioned that the burden of\nproof is crucial to the final outcome and that is the reason for the state\nagencies taking time to fine tune the proceedings. While on the subject of Sri\nLankan government\u2019s attempt to file charges I quote below a report from Ementra\nregards the trail of suicide bombers in Paris in 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The biggest trial in modern French history opens on\nWednesday (Sept 2021) , with 20 suspects charged in the November 2015 Paris\nattacks in which&nbsp;130 people were killed and hundreds more injured, with an\nexpected nine months of hearings set to reopen still raw wounds.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>One would no doubt will agree that France has one of\nthe best intelligence and prosecution machinery at her disposal and it has\ntaken more than 5 years to bring the suspects to trail. Isn\u2019t it fair to grant\nSri Lankan government and the law-making authorities a reasonable time to get\ntheir act together for effective legal action for an incident which took place\nin 2019! Unfortunately, there is at least one face book entry in the social\nmedia , very popular among the government bashers&nbsp; of a person who is supposed to be a catholic\npriest with pictures of the damaged churches and in the midst of the debris a\npicture of the present President! Pray; doesn\u2019t he speak with his tongue in his\ncheek? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>RANJITH SOYSA <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RANJITH SOYSA Defence Secretary Gen (retd) Kamal Gunaratne recently made a very sensible statement urging the public not to be misled by false claims made on Easter carnage. Many fake information concerning the state of the investigations are published in some of the main media as well as the social media which are apparently attempting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ranjith-soysa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118133","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=118133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}