{"id":126726,"date":"2022-07-08T18:06:08","date_gmt":"2022-07-09T01:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=126726"},"modified":"2022-07-08T18:06:08","modified_gmt":"2022-07-09T01:06:08","slug":"certain-elements-attempting-to-incite-violence-under-guise-of-peaceful-protests-kamal-gunaratne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/07\/08\/certain-elements-attempting-to-incite-violence-under-guise-of-peaceful-protests-kamal-gunaratne\/","title":{"rendered":"Certain elements attempting to incite violence under guise of peaceful protests &#8211; Kamal Gunaratne"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Defence Secretary Rtd.General Kamal Gunaratne said that there has been information that certain elements were attempting to incite violence under the guise of peaceful protests.<br><br>In a video statement released today evening, Gunaratne urged all citizens to act with patience during these trying times and refrain from engaging in any unlawful acts.<br><br>&#8220;The Sri Lanka Police and the three Armed forces have been empowered to take action against anyone engaging in any form of violent act.&nbsp;We requested the public to render their support to the security forces who are always committed to protecting the motherland and the people,&#8221; Gunaratne said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Defence Secretary&#8217;s statement comes on the eve of islandwide protests scheduled to be held against the President and government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror Defence Secretary Rtd.General Kamal Gunaratne said that there has been information that certain elements were attempting to incite violence under the guise of peaceful protests. In a video statement released today evening, Gunaratne urged all citizens to act with patience during these trying times and refrain from engaging in any unlawful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126726","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=126726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}