{"id":46883,"date":"2015-08-13T05:28:54","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T12:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=46883"},"modified":"2015-08-13T05:29:24","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T12:29:24","slug":"news-rugby-players-body-exhumed-unp-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/08\/13\/news-rugby-players-body-exhumed-unp-records\/","title":{"rendered":"News: Rugby player\u2019s body exhumed  &#038;  UNP Records !"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><em>By mahinda<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Wimal S. Surendra\u00a0 who was my uncle by relationship, was the chief Photographer attached to the Upali Newspaper company, of the newly started newspaper Divaina in the 1978. He was married and had two children who lived in Aniwatte ancestral home in Kandy. I was schooling and was of the same age as his children.<\/p>\n<p>Around July\/August,\u00a0 the same year we were shocked of the sudden news that he had died in an accident but story was other way about.<\/p>\n<p>He had been returning from Negombo after taking of some photographs of an event participated by the then P.M. Premadasa\u2019s wife madam Hema. On his way on the motor bicycle he was knocked down purposely at Wattala junction and John Amarathunga\u2019s thugs beaten him to death.<\/p>\n<p>It had been a clear murder and planned thuggery of the John Amarathunga who lead the underworld in Wattala area on Negombo road.<\/p>\n<p>The truth was suppressed brutally and all investigations were drowned never to come up.<\/p>\n<p>It is just a tip of an iceberg but one such an example to demonstrate how brutal the UNP is.<\/p>\n<p>I am writing this to remind\u00a0 all readers what UNP is and what they did since 1977!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By mahinda Wimal S. Surendra\u00a0 who was my uncle by relationship, was the chief Photographer attached to the Upali Newspaper company, of the newly started newspaper Divaina in the 1978. He was married and had two children who lived in Aniwatte ancestral home in Kandy. I was schooling and was of the same age as [&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-46883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46883","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=46883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}