{"id":49332,"date":"2015-11-12T02:45:05","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T09:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=49332"},"modified":"2015-11-12T02:45:05","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T09:45:05","slug":"keerthi-warnakulasuiriya-was-recognized-as-the-best-defense-columnist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/11\/12\/keerthi-warnakulasuiriya-was-recognized-as-the-best-defense-columnist\/","title":{"rendered":"KEERTHI WARNAKULASUIRIYA WAS RECOGNIZED AS THE BEST DEFENSE COLUMNIST"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Ranjith Soysa<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The veteran journalist Keerthi Wanakulasuriya was recognized as the best defense columnist in presenting the most\u00a0factual and accurate report about the recent UNHCR sessions at which Sri Lanka opted to co-sponsor a resolution \u00a0to investigate accountability for war crimes against herself. He was given the award by Mr Sarath Wijesinghe, the President of 2050 Forum of Sr Lankan Professionals in Colombo.<\/p>\n<p>Keerthi,who has been compiling a detailed defense column for well over 15 years for Sunday Divaina was awarded \u00a0a certificate in recognizing for reporting the proceedings at the UNHRC from Geneva\u00a0 providing information including on the anti -Sri Lanka fronts \u00a0active at the meeting and how they influenced the decision makers. His reports included the names of the anti-Sri Lanka\u00a0organizations , their main activists and the meetings they had with influential leaders at the UN and other international leaders.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/keerthi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-49333\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/keerthi.jpg\" alt=\"keerthi\" width=\"371\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/keerthi.jpg 371w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/keerthi-300x290.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 371px) 100vw, 371px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He also commented on how some of the anti-Sri Lankan organizations were able to mislead the UN and obtain registrations to participate\u00a0at the sessions as NGOs and while\u00a0 some others did so illegally\u00a0 with the connivance of the UN registration section.<\/p>\n<p>He was cautioned by the ruling political parties on several occasions\u00a0 for his efforts to provide accurate information to the Sri Lankan public and had also\u00a0 received threats from the\u00a0 political leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Keerthi Waranakulasuriya continues to serve the nation with pride and dedication.<\/p>\n<p>Ranjith Soysa<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ranjith Soysa The veteran journalist Keerthi Wanakulasuriya was recognized as the best defense columnist in presenting the most\u00a0factual and accurate report about the recent UNHCR sessions at which Sri Lanka opted to co-sponsor a resolution \u00a0to investigate accountability for war crimes against herself. He was given the award by Mr Sarath Wijesinghe, the President of [&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-49332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49332","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=49332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}