{"id":54344,"date":"2016-05-02T19:18:12","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T01:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=54344"},"modified":"2016-05-02T12:05:22","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T19:05:22","slug":"mahindas-life-in-danger-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/05\/02\/mahindas-life-in-danger-secretary\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahinda\u2019s life in danger &#8211; Secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Adaderana <\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Withdrawal of 50 well-trained army personnel from the security detail of the former President has placed his life in danger, Media Secretary to former President Mahinda Rajapaksa says.<\/p>\n<p>Issuing a statement today (02), Roahan Welivita said 50 army personnel assigned for the security detail of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa have been withdrawn, today.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Police personnel were assigned but they are not trained on VVIP security. Mahinda Rajapaksa is under a life threat who defeated the world most powerful LTTE terrorist organization and this is the view of security experts too.<\/p>\n<p>This has been understood even by the general public. Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa is the only living Leader in the world who defeated a powerful terrorist organization. Therefore it is the public opinion that Mahinda Rajapaksa should be given proper military protection. Withdrawal of 50 well-trained army personnel has placed the life of former President in danger.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also pointed out it is the duty of the Government to provide sufficient military protection to safeguard the life of Mahinda Rajapaksa.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Police replace army personnel in Mahinda\u2019s security\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d01X03UU_7A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; See more at:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/adaderana.lk\/news\/35111\/mahindas-life-in-danger-secretary#sthash.Qa371NuM.dpuf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adaderana Withdrawal of 50 well-trained army personnel from the security detail of the former President has placed his life in danger, Media Secretary to former President Mahinda Rajapaksa says. Issuing a statement today (02), Roahan Welivita said 50 army personnel assigned for the security detail of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa have been withdrawn, today. Instead, [&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-54344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54344","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=54344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}