{"id":41523,"date":"2015-02-14T10:40:58","date_gmt":"2015-02-14T17:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=41523"},"modified":"2015-02-14T10:47:14","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T17:47:14","slug":"yaha-palanaya-or-gava-palanaya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/02\/14\/yaha-palanaya-or-gava-palanaya\/","title":{"rendered":"Yaha Palanaya or Gava Palanaya?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/gavapalanaya2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41527\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/gavapalanaya2.jpg\" alt=\"gavapalanaya2\" width=\"1006\" height=\"834\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/gavapalanaya2.jpg 1006w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/gavapalanaya2-300x249.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1006px) 100vw, 1006px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Open letter to Ven. Sobitha Thera<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span class=\"article_date\">February 13, 2015, 7:54 pm<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.island.lk\/modules\/modPublication\/article_title_images\/1194993506letter.jpg\" alt=\"article_image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Your demand for the arrest of all those who accused the then presidential candidate, Maithripala Sirisena and UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe of a secret electoral pact is front page news in The Island of 12.02.2015. As for Tissa Attanayake&#8217;s role in producing the said document, you ascertain that this was meant to cause political turmoil.<\/p>\n<p>However, the JHU had also committed a similar offence when Minister Patali Champika brandished a doctored photograph of the then President Mahinda Rajapaksa and Dr. Lester James Peiris cause political turmoil.<\/p>\n<p>It is alleged that in the document flaunted by Attanayake the signatures of Sirisena and Wickremesinghe are forged. My intention is not to defend Attanayaka, but to highlight the simple fact that a signature is difficult to verify. It could indeed be a genuine mistake or not. Though the CID suspects Attanayaka to have used a forged document, it must be proven in a court of law that it was indeed a forged document and used with the full knowledge that it was forged with the intent of causing political turmoil. Until such time, we must keep an open mind.<\/p>\n<p>However, in the case of the document Patali Champika used, one does not need expert analysis to conclude that it was a forged document as the glaring discrepancies was obvious after a cursory glance. It is difficult to accept that one with a sharp intelligence like Patali Champika missed the obvious. Either way, mistake or deliberate, it is a matter for a court of law to deliberate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0A Buddhist monk should not disregard the errors\/offences of one person and call for the blood of another for the same errors\/offences.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Shivanthi Ranasinghe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open letter to Ven. Sobitha Thera February 13, 2015, 7:54 pm Your demand for the arrest of all those who accused the then presidential candidate, Maithripala Sirisena and UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe of a secret electoral pact is front page news in The Island of 12.02.2015. As for Tissa Attanayake&#8217;s role in producing the said [&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-41523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41523","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=41523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}