{"id":40710,"date":"2015-01-09T11:09:39","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T17:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=40710"},"modified":"2015-01-09T02:59:11","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T09:59:11","slug":"victory-for-the-traitors-and-ltte-rump-i-hope-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/01\/09\/victory-for-the-traitors-and-ltte-rump-i-hope-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Victory for the traitors and LTTE rump? I hope not"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>By Sarath W<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Financed by Ranil\u2019s backers, the \u2018regime change\u2019 specialists and Chandrika\u2019s backer the Indians, well supported by the minorities, Colombians and the Catholics Sirisena has become the president of Sri Lanka. The majority of just over 450,000 votes has made him the president of the ungrateful Tamils and Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>Does this means Sirisena has to give into Tamil and Muslim Demands, and be a puppet president? His main promise to the Sinhalese who voted him was to create a 5 star democracy and eliminate corruption. He can keep most of his promises by inviting the honest and decent SLFP members to join him. He should dissolve the parliament soon as possible, get rid of the thugs like Mervyn, Sajit Vas, and other old and incompetent members and invite some decent competent people to contest the next election. Dr Chris Nonis to be the next foreign minister?<\/p>\n<p>He should do more for the rural Sinhala masses. Mihinda\u2019s mistake was to concentrate more development to the north and east neglecting his Sinhala voters and he dearly paid for it. Tamils will never will be grateful to you unless you give<\/p>\n<p>I hope he will not remove the armed forces from the north and east, keep the high security zones and never even think of giving the police and land powers to the provincial councils and be a puppet like Ranil.<\/p>\n<p>I think you should remain as the executive president and let a newly elected parliament decide about the constitution and elect the future prime minister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sarath W \u00a0Financed by Ranil\u2019s backers, the \u2018regime change\u2019 specialists and Chandrika\u2019s backer the Indians, well supported by the minorities, Colombians and the Catholics Sirisena has become the president of Sri Lanka. The majority of just over 450,000 votes has made him the president of the ungrateful Tamils and Muslims. Does this means Sirisena [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40710","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=40710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}