{"id":146299,"date":"2024-12-04T16:41:04","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T23:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=146299"},"modified":"2024-12-04T16:41:04","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T23:41:04","slug":"npp-govt-should-probe-killings-of-wijeweera-vijaya-mp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/12\/04\/npp-govt-should-probe-killings-of-wijeweera-vijaya-mp\/","title":{"rendered":"NPP Govt. should probe killings of Wijeweera, Vijaya &#8211; MP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">By Yohan Perera and Ajith Siriwardana<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p>The NPP government should probe the killings of its founder leader Rohana Wijeweera and actor turned politician Vijaya Kumaratunga in keeping with the pledges made by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake during his policy statement, opposition MP Chamara Sampath Dassanayake told Parliament yesterday<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The President in his address to Parliament said cases which are buried will be taken out again. Therefore, we request that a probe be conducted on JVP founder leader Rohana Wijeweera and actor turned politician Vijaya Kumaratunga,\u201d MP Dassanayake said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NPP Govt. should probe killings of Wijeweera, Vijaya - MP\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ym0sQfTW1mk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Find out who blindfolded Wijeweera at Kirulapone police station and how he was killed and how he was taken to Borella Kanatha. Also probe as to who shot Vijaya and from which garage in Polhengoda the killer got the T56 rifle to shoot him. Mete out justice to Wijeweera\u2019s children and children of Vijaya,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was one incident in Uva where all children of one family were killed just because one child joined the JVP in 1989. These incidents also should be probed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Yohan Perera and Ajith Siriwardana The NPP government should probe the killings of its founder leader Rohana Wijeweera and actor turned politician Vijaya Kumaratunga in keeping with the pledges made by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake during his policy statement, opposition MP Chamara Sampath Dassanayake told Parliament yesterday The President in his address to Parliament [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146299","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=146299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}