{"id":148836,"date":"2025-03-31T15:46:57","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T22:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=148836"},"modified":"2025-03-31T15:46:57","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T22:46:57","slug":"namal-calls-on-akd-to-question-shani-ravi-seneviratne-over-easter-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/03\/31\/namal-calls-on-akd-to-question-shani-ravi-seneviratne-over-easter-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Namal calls on AKD to question Shani, Ravi Seneviratne over Easter attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bmkltsly13vb.compat.objectstorage.ap-singapore-1.oraclecloud.com\/cdn.sg.dailymirror.lk\/assets\/uploads\/image_a9638f2fc0.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>While alleging that Shani Abeysekera, and Ravi Seneviratne have used political asylum by holding key positions in the government to avoid prosecution regarding the Easter Sunday attacks, SLPP MP Namal Rajapaksa called on the President to question them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Individuals like former CID Director Shani Abeysekera, and former Senior DIG in charge of the CID Ravi Seneviratne, who held key positions when the Easter Sunday attacks took place, are well aware of what happened and how. The government should question them first,\u201d he said in a public meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, it\u2019s a known fact that two sons of a National List MP from the NPP were involved in one of the attacks. The government should ask him how things really happened rather than politicizing the whole issue,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also stated that it was pointless to ask SLPP members who the culprits are when, according to him, the real culprits are within the government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror While alleging that Shani Abeysekera, and Ravi Seneviratne have used political asylum by holding key positions in the government to avoid prosecution regarding the Easter Sunday attacks, SLPP MP Namal Rajapaksa called on the President to question them. Individuals like former CID Director Shani Abeysekera, and former Senior DIG in charge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148836","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=148836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}