{"id":134101,"date":"2023-05-01T15:37:48","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T22:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=134101"},"modified":"2023-05-01T15:37:48","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T22:37:48","slug":"public-opinion-submission-for-new-anti-terror-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/05\/01\/public-opinion-submission-for-new-anti-terror-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Opinion Submission for New Anti-Terror Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dilrook Kannangara<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka needs anti-terror and anti-subversion laws. Sadly, the seven decades since Independence are dotted with subversion, violence, disruption and terrorism. Current Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) introduced in 1979 has its use but falls short of many security risks the island faces. Parts of it are outdated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Singapore\u2019s Internal Security Act is a reasonable adaptation for Sri Lanka. It is very comprehensive and it has helped turn Singapore into a modern peaceful, diverse and developed nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A link to the Act is found at Singapore Statutes Online. (Internal Security Act 1960, 2020 REVISED EDITION)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sso.agc.gov.sg\/Act\/ISA1960\">https:\/\/sso.agc.gov.sg\/Act\/ISA1960<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reasonable adjustments should be made to meet local conditions and to be consistent with other local laws including the Constitution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dilrook Kannangara Sri Lanka needs anti-terror and anti-subversion laws. Sadly, the seven decades since Independence are dotted with subversion, violence, disruption and terrorism. Current Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) introduced in 1979 has its use but falls short of many security risks the island faces. Parts of it are outdated. Singapore\u2019s Internal Security Act is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dilrook-kannangara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134101","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=134101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}