{"id":41189,"date":"2015-02-02T07:40:32","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T14:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=41189"},"modified":"2015-02-02T07:46:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T14:46:00","slug":"is-this-yahapalanaya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/02\/02\/is-this-yahapalanaya\/","title":{"rendered":"Is this Yahapalanaya?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Yahapalanaya News From Sri Lanka<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Former General Secretary of the United National Party and Health Minister Tissa Attanayake had been remanded till February 11 by the Colombo Fort Magistrate.<\/p>\n<p>Remanding a person for an alleged civil offense seems a sign of things to come under this government\u2019s Yahapalanaya. One would have thought that Mr Attanayake would have been given bail rather than being remanded.<\/p>\n<p>This high handed action follows the way the President reinstated the impeached Chief Justice Dr Shirani Bandaranayake, all in the name Yahapalanaya.<\/p>\n<p>The Criminal Investigation Department which arrested Tissa Attanayake in Colombo this morning on charges of creating forged documents during the January Presidential Election, informed the court that they had obtained the report of the Government Analyst and they had evidence that the document shown by Attanayake to the media was forged.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile\u00a0U.S. hopes that the South Asian island nation can revive ties with Washington and distance itself to some degree from Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>Under former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, relations with China intensified, with heavy Chinese investment in the strategically located island along busy sea lanes between the Persian Gulf and East Asia.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yahapalanaya News From Sri Lanka Former General Secretary of the United National Party and Health Minister Tissa Attanayake had been remanded till February 11 by the Colombo Fort Magistrate. Remanding a person for an alleged civil offense seems a sign of things to come under this government\u2019s Yahapalanaya. One would have thought that Mr Attanayake [&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-41189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41189","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=41189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}