{"id":46007,"date":"2015-07-22T01:48:59","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T08:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=46007"},"modified":"2015-07-22T01:48:59","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T08:48:59","slug":"gotabaya-claims-white-van-in-mirihana-belonged-to-ltte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/07\/22\/gotabaya-claims-white-van-in-mirihana-belonged-to-ltte\/","title":{"rendered":"Gotabaya claims white van in Mirihana belonged to LTTE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"newsContent\">\n<p>Former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa says the country\u2019s security is the foundation for development and reconciliation and that unfortunately the current leaders of Sri Lanka have given a low priority for security.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing an event on Tuesday (21) supporting UPFA candidate Udaya Gammanpila, he also claimed that the white-coloured van recently arrested with three suspects in Mirihana belonged to the now-defunct Tamil Tigers.<\/p>\n<p>I live in Mirihana. Mahinda Rajapaksa also lives in Mirihina. A white coloured van was seized in the Mirihana area last night (July 20). The van had wrong number plates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AuxvZUVOOmY?rel=0\" width=\"460\" height=\"260\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>According to information received, the van had been used by the LTTE organisation. Three armed men dressed in civilian clothing were inside. They are now at Mirihana Police,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Rajapaksa inquired as to why civil organisations are remaining silent on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>I ask those who then accused us of creating a white van culture, especially (Ven. Maduluwawe) Sobitha Thero, why are you not speaking against this today? I ask those who formed civil societies whether this is good governance?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adaderana Former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa says the country\u2019s security is the foundation for development and reconciliation and that unfortunately the current leaders of Sri Lanka have given a low priority for security. Addressing an event on Tuesday (21) supporting UPFA candidate Udaya Gammanpila, he also claimed that the white-coloured van recently arrested with three [&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-46007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46007","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=46007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}