{"id":150613,"date":"2025-07-09T16:13:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T23:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=150613"},"modified":"2025-07-09T16:13:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T23:13:06","slug":"officers-facing-allegations-probing-easter-sundays-attacks-opposition-mp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/07\/09\/officers-facing-allegations-probing-easter-sundays-attacks-opposition-mp\/","title":{"rendered":"Officers facing allegations probing Easter Sunday\u2019s attacks &#8211; Opposition MP"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>By Yohan Perera and Ajith Siriwardana, Courtesy Daily mirror<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Colombo, July 9 (Daily Mirror) &#8211; Opposition Parliamentarian D. V. Chanaka told Parliament yesterday that the investigation into the Easter Sunday&#8217;s attack is being handled by two officers who had allegedly ignored over 90 prior warnings on the attack. Investigations on Easter Sunday attacks are handled by officers who face allegations, opposition MP D. V. Chanaka told Parliament today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These two officers are the ones who neglected more than 90 pre warnings of Easter Sunday attacks. The commission appointed by former President Maithripala Sirisena has recommended action against these two officers,\u201d the MP said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> One of these two officers who is now the secretary Ministry of Public Security and the other who is the head of intelligence are ones who walked into the JVP Headquarters at Pelawatte and held press conferences,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Furthermore, the MP said it was Ibrahim who was on JVP National list in 2015 who had funded the extremists who were involved in the Easter Sunday attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Yohan Perera and Ajith Siriwardana, Courtesy Daily mirror Colombo, July 9 (Daily Mirror) &#8211; Opposition Parliamentarian D. V. Chanaka told Parliament yesterday that the investigation into the Easter Sunday&#8217;s attack is being handled by two officers who had allegedly ignored over 90 prior warnings on the attack. Investigations on Easter Sunday attacks are handled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150613","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=150613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}