{"id":53241,"date":"2016-03-25T19:40:56","date_gmt":"2016-03-26T01:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=53241"},"modified":"2016-03-25T12:02:55","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T19:02:55","slug":"terrorist-attack-in-brussels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/03\/25\/terrorist-attack-in-brussels\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrorist attack in Brussels"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>P.A.Samaraweera, Brisbane<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>On Tuesday night, terrorists had attacked Brussels, by bombing a subway station and the Zavantem International Airport. As a result 30 had been killed and injured more than 140. It had been confirmed that the carnage was caused by suicide bombers. Suicide bombers were introduced by the LTTE. In Sri Lanka , prior to 2009 most of the political leaders and top commanders of the security forces \u00a0were targeted by suicide bombers. For eg Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and President Premadasa were\u00a0 victims of\u00a0 suicide bombers.\u00a0Subsequently, this type of killing was copied by other terror groups.<\/p>\n<p>An attack on Brussels is considered as an attack on European countries. Now\u00a0these countries are going through the horrible experiences which Sri Lanka went through for 3 decades.\u00a0\u00a0After the bomb attack,\u00a0PM David Cameron had immediately summoned a meeting of the political leaders of France and Germany.\u00a0 The UK., France and Germany had initiated crisis\u00a0 meetings after the attack in Brussels. But\u00a0these countries have given asylum to terrorist leaders who left Sri Lanka towards the end of the war.\u00a0 Now they are moving freely in European countries.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, it is good that the European countries get a `taste` of terrorism.\u00a0Because there was a time when\u00a0these countries were of the view that terrorist acts are a phenomenon only in countries like Sri Lanka. And they\u00a0turned a blind eye to the rampage caused by the\u00a0LTTE terrorists.\u00a0\u00a0Then in Sri Lanka,\u00a0the reward for wiping out terrorism is for the war heroes\u00a0to go\u00a0 before a war crimes court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>P.A.Samaraweera, Brisbane On Tuesday night, terrorists had attacked Brussels, by bombing a subway station and the Zavantem International Airport. As a result 30 had been killed and injured more than 140. It had been confirmed that the carnage was caused by suicide bombers. Suicide bombers were introduced by the LTTE. In Sri Lanka , prior [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drpasamaraweera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53241","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=53241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}