{"id":45502,"date":"2015-07-10T08:52:08","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T14:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=45502"},"modified":"2015-07-10T00:33:25","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T07:33:25","slug":"swindlers-will-be-born-as-dogs-sirisena-says-in-the-presence-of-ranil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/07\/10\/swindlers-will-be-born-as-dogs-sirisena-says-in-the-presence-of-ranil\/","title":{"rendered":"Swindlers will be born as dogs: Sirisena says in the presence of Ranil"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Election News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Addressing a ceremony held to mark the 125th anniversary of the Archaeology Department in Colombo, President Maithripala Sirisena said that those in power should always keep in their mind that they should not steal State assets, and there would be consequences and they will \u00a0be reborn as dogs and crows if they did so. President said this In the presence of Ranil indirectly referring to the Bond Scam Ranil got involved.<\/p>\n<p>According to the rock inscription found near the Sripada,he believed to have been engraved during the time of King Nissanka Malla, those who stole State assets would be reborn as dogs and crows, President Maithripala Sirisena said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am asking how much this Nissanka Malla inscription is relevant to yesteryear and to today. I, as the first servant of the people, suggest that this edict be inscribed in a plaque and placed in all offices from that of the President, Ministers and government officials,\u201d the President said. Addressing the event held at the Department premises, the President said that the artefacts in the Department were the evidence of a nation&#8217;s history. To build the nation and the country, we should not be confined only to speak of our proud history. All of us should totally commit ourselves to enrich future generations with the benefit of our proud history,\u201d he said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Election News Addressing a ceremony held to mark the 125th anniversary of the Archaeology Department in Colombo, President Maithripala Sirisena said that those in power should always keep in their mind that they should not steal State assets, and there would be consequences and they will \u00a0be reborn as dogs and crows if they did [&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-45502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45502","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=45502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}