{"id":54646,"date":"2016-05-14T15:04:08","date_gmt":"2016-05-14T22:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=54646"},"modified":"2016-05-14T15:04:08","modified_gmt":"2016-05-14T22:04:08","slug":"prez-musevenis-inauguration-by-bandu-de-silva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/05\/14\/prez-musevenis-inauguration-by-bandu-de-silva\/","title":{"rendered":"Prez Museveni\u2019s inauguration By Bandu De Silva,,,,,"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr Sarath Obeysekera\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

Right to reply \u2026\u2026\u2026.<\/p>\n

When you read the opinion column in today\u2019s Island ,I am tempted to comment and justify and substantiate the invitation sent by President elect of Uganda extended to our President ( sorry ex-president) of Sri Lanka .<\/p>\n

After Mrs Banadaranyake became the first woman prime \u00a0minister \u00a0in the world ,and reined few extended years everyone thought that she will stay for life time .<\/p>\n

I even heard that when J R came to power she was little reluctant to leave the temple trees<\/p>\n

After many years of her leaving the prime minister\u2019s office many people in foreign counties \u00a0( who sometimes do not know where Sri Lanka is geographically located ) think that we still have the same woman prime minister and keeps asking us about her<\/p>\n

That means Ugandan people may be thinking that MR is still the president and sent the invitation addressed to the President H E Mahinda Rajapakse and sent to his home address ,or may even be that it went to him my mistake.<\/p>\n

MS \u00a0is very often addressed as H E \u00a0Mahinda Rajapakse in many meetings by \u00a0some ministers and secretaries in the incumbent government either by mistake or to irk the current president who is mild mannered and takes it in a lighter vein .<\/p>\n

My contention is that even in US ex president Bush is addressed as President \u00a0Bush hence MR being called President is and honour ,just like SF is called Field Marshal without a battalion !<\/p>\n

I feel that Ugandan President wants to remind the people in Uganda of horrific ethnic cleansing by Idi Amin ,and bringing our President ( I mean ex president ) to honour the man for his stopping the ethnic cleansing by LTTE<\/p>\n

Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr Sarath Obeysekera\u00a0 Right to reply \u2026\u2026\u2026. When you read the opinion column in today\u2019s Island ,I am tempted to comment and justify and substantiate the invitation sent by President elect of Uganda extended to our President ( sorry ex-president) of Sri Lanka . After Mrs Banadaranyake became the first woman prime \u00a0minister \u00a0in the […]<\/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-54646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54646","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=54646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}