{"id":40773,"date":"2015-01-11T10:03:09","date_gmt":"2015-01-11T16:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=40773"},"modified":"2015-01-11T02:48:18","modified_gmt":"2015-01-11T09:48:18","slug":"sri-lanka-to-probe-alleged-coup-attempt-by-ex-president-mangala-samaraweera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/01\/11\/sri-lanka-to-probe-alleged-coup-attempt-by-ex-president-mangala-samaraweera\/","title":{"rendered":"SRI LANKA TO PROBE ALLEGED COUP ATTEMPT BY EX-PRESIDENT- Mangala Samaraweera,"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Hot News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Confirming his mud-slinging website created story, \u00a0Mangala Samaraweera, the spokesman for new President Maithripala Sirisena, said Sunday that the Cabinet would investigate the alleged coup attempt by former President Mahinda Rajapaksa to stay in power when results showed he was losing last week&#8217;s election.<\/p>\n<p>Samaraweera said: &#8220;People think it was a peaceful transition. It was anything but.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said Rajapaksa stepped down only after the army chief and the police inspector general refused to go along with him.<\/p>\n<p>Samaraweeera said Rajapaksa had planned to deploy the army stop the vote count when it became clear that he was losing Thursday&#8217;s election.<\/p>\n<p>Same website published a story to says \u00a0the former defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapakse has fled the country to Maldives in a air force plane, but his neighbours have confirmed that Gotabaya is still in the official residence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot News Confirming his mud-slinging website created story, \u00a0Mangala Samaraweera, the spokesman for new President Maithripala Sirisena, said Sunday that the Cabinet would investigate the alleged coup attempt by former President Mahinda Rajapaksa to stay in power when results showed he was losing last week&#8217;s election. Samaraweera said: &#8220;People think it was a peaceful transition. [&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-40773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40773","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=40773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}