{"id":151784,"date":"2025-09-02T16:22:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T23:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=151784"},"modified":"2025-09-02T16:22:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T23:22:00","slug":"oppression-of-war-heroes-slpp-writes-to-mahanayake-theras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/09\/02\/oppression-of-war-heroes-slpp-writes-to-mahanayake-theras\/","title":{"rendered":"Oppression of war heroes: SLPP writes to Mahanayake Theras"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Colombo, Sept. 2 (Daily Mirror) &#8211; The Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) has written to the Mahanayake Theras of the Asgiriya and Malwathu Chapters, expressing concern over what it alleges are government attempts to oppress war heroes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In letters, SLPP General Secretary, Attorney-at-Law Sagara Kariyawasam, the party accused the government of pursuing actions that undermine military personnel who fought to end terrorism in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While noting that terrorism ended 16 years ago, the SLPP claimed the ideology\u201d behind it still exists. It further alleged that the government is acting in line with groups hostile to war heroes, under the influence of external forces that backed its rise to power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The party also criticized the administration for failing to give due recognition to annual commemorations for fallen soldiers, while allegedly allowing events that glorify terrorism to take place both in Sri Lanka and overseas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, Sept. 2 (Daily Mirror) &#8211; The Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) has written to the Mahanayake Theras of the Asgiriya and Malwathu Chapters, expressing concern over what it alleges are government attempts to oppress war heroes.\u201d In letters, SLPP General Secretary, Attorney-at-Law Sagara Kariyawasam, the party accused the government of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151784","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=151784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}