{"id":50641,"date":"2015-12-30T00:42:29","date_gmt":"2015-12-30T06:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=50641"},"modified":"2015-12-29T17:22:39","modified_gmt":"2015-12-30T00:22:39","slug":"medieval-tantrums-by-king-sirisena-destroying-sri-lanka-image-internationally-advocate-torture-by-flogging-and-whipping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/12\/30\/medieval-tantrums-by-king-sirisena-destroying-sri-lanka-image-internationally-advocate-torture-by-flogging-and-whipping\/","title":{"rendered":"MEDIEVAL TANTRUMS BY KING SIRISENA DESTROYING SRI LANKA IMAGE INTERNATIONALLY- ADVOCATE TORTURE BY FLOGGING AND WHIPPING!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>By M D P DISSANAYAKE<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>In November\u00a0 last year, Mr Sirisena betrayed his President while remaining as an obedient, loyal servant for several years. <strong>He almost removed all his clothes\u00a0 and ran naked to opposition ranks to seek political refuge under UNP.<\/strong> <strong>Did he behave like a Theravada Buddhist? Did he behave like a respectable Grama Sevaka of Polonnaruwa, or as a Buffalo ( Ambaruwa or Meeharaka).<\/strong> He was talking about preserving the culture of Sri Lanka on an unexpected indecent incident in an Entertainment Program. <strong>If that lady should be flogged for the incident, then what punishment ought to be given to Maithreepala Sirisena for literally removing all his clothes?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here is a list of Medieval Torture and Punishments.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Medeival Inquisition<\/li>\n<li>Torture<\/li>\n<li>Execution Methods<\/li>\n<li>Ducking Stool<\/li>\n<li>Hung, Drawn and Quartered<\/li>\n<li>Balls Torture<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(For full list and details of punishments, please refer to:http:\/\/www.medieval-life-and-times.info)<\/p>\n<p><strong>INTERNATIONAL CONDEMNATION:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We publish a series of news report headlines appearing in International media during last 48 hours.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FRANCE24.COM:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena Sunday said that organisers of a recent concert by pop star Enrique Iglesias in Colombo should be &#8220;whipped with toxic stingray tails&#8221; because it was &#8220;uncivilised.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>TIME.COM .US EDITION:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s President Says the Organizers of an Enrique Iglesias Show Need Whipping<\/p>\n<p><strong>BBC:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka&#8217;s president\u00a0says the organisers of an Enrique Iglesias gig should bewhipped\u00a0as punishment over the behaviour of some female fans.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, AUSTRALIA:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Enrique Iglesias concert promoters should be whipped, says Sri Lankan president.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BANGKOK POST:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena Sunday said that organisers of a recent concert by pop star Enrique Iglesias in Colombo should be &#8220;whipped with toxic stingray tails&#8221; because it was &#8220;uncivilised.<\/p>\n<h1>PUNJAB TIMES.INDIA:<\/h1>\n<h1>Organisers of Enrique concert should be whipped with stingray tails: Sri Lanka President<\/h1>\n<p><strong>PAKISTAN.DAWN.COM:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>COLOMBO: Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on Sunday said that organisers of a recent concert by pop star Enrique Iglesias in Colombo should be whipped with toxic stingray tails\u201d because it was uncivilised\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Dec 20 concert in capital Colombo saw ecstatic local women running on stage to hug and kiss the Hero\u201d singer while others threw their clothes at him, Sirisena told a public meeting in the eastern district of Ampara.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This is most uncivilised behaviour that goes against our culture,\u201d the president said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>STRAIT TIMES OF SINGAPORE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>COLOMBO (AFP) &#8211; Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena said on Sunday that organisers of a recent concert by pop star Enrique Iglesias in Colombo should be &#8220;whipped with toxic stingray tails&#8221; because it was &#8220;uncivilised.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MALASIAN DIGEST.COM:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka&#8217;s president says the organisers of an Enrique Iglesias gig should be whipped as punishment over the behaviour of some female fans.<\/p>\n<p>Maithripala Sirisena said scenes of local women running on stage to kiss the singer and throwing their underwear at him, was &#8220;most uncivilised&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He said the organisers should be &#8220;whipped with toxic stingray tails&#8221; &#8211; referring to an ancient punishment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SKYNEWS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka&#8217;s president has said organisers of a recent Enrique Iglesias concert should be &#8220;whipped with toxic stingray tails&#8221; because it was &#8220;uncivilised&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CONCLUSION:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>There is no doubt that the act committed during the above programme was against our culture, just as much as what Mr Sirisena did back in November last year.\u00a0 How could Mr Sirisena demand high standards of cultural behaviour from his own citizens, when he himself has failed to comply with the policies\u00a0 and cultural standards which were very close to his heart he learned from his great parents and village schools,\u00a0 from his childhood?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The President has done an irreparable damage to the image of our country.\u00a0 It has been reported the President&#8217;s closest family members too were present at the programme, their photos have since been removed from the <strong>Facebook.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u00a0 duties are being performed by\u00a0 our President now?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong> Is he involved in winning a war against Tamil Terrorists?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong> Is he busy in planning and plan implementation to build new infrastructure of Sri Lanka?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong> Is he establishing new Schools, Universities, Hospitals, new industries?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong> Is he bringing international investors to Sri Lanka?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong> Is he conducting major international events, forums in Sri Lanka?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong> Or he, Ranil and CBK are enjoying the benefits of the hard work done by President Mahinda Rajapakse?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By M D P DISSANAYAKE In November\u00a0 last year, Mr Sirisena betrayed his President while remaining as an obedient, loyal servant for several years. He almost removed all his clothes\u00a0 and ran naked to opposition ranks to seek political refuge under UNP. Did he behave like a Theravada Buddhist? Did he behave like a respectable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-m-d-p-dissanayake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50641","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=50641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}