{"id":56517,"date":"2016-07-12T22:38:13","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T04:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=56517"},"modified":"2016-07-12T15:31:37","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T22:31:37","slug":"president-sirisena-snarls-at-sunday-divaina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/07\/12\/president-sirisena-snarls-at-sunday-divaina\/","title":{"rendered":"President Sirisena\u00a0 snarls\u00a0 at Sunday Divaina"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ranjith Soysa<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

After reading the headline of Sunday Divaina of 10th July, the President Sirisena blasted the news paper for carrying the news item that War Crimes Investigation will commence in 9 months time and it will be with foreign judges.<\/p>\n

The report outlined the relevant details and it was written by veteran defence columnist Keerthi Waranakulsuriya,It proceeded to discuss the key role played by<\/p>\n

9 USA based retired judges who were hired by the TGTE to lobby UNHCR in Geneva and its head the Prince Seyd.Further, the report discussed that this decision will be followed up at the UNHRC ‘s session in March 2017 and the setting up of the hybrid courts will commence in February 2017. By September 2016 the the Truth Commission on the lines of South Africa’s Truth Commission will be formed.<\/p>\n

It is indeed hypocritical for the President to have reprimanded the news paper for accurate reporting of Sri Lanka’s pathetic situation arising from the Government’s suicidal act of co-sponsoring the war crimes resolution against the country.<\/p>\n

The Foreign Minister too had blasted this Defence columnist recently for having<\/p>\n

exposed the minister in the company of top LTTE-Eelamists sympathizer lobbyists by publishing a number of photographs.<\/p>\n

What Times! The fate of freedom of expression !!!<\/p>\n

Ranjith Soysa<\/p>\n

Will not allow foreign judges or courts to interfere: President \u0daf\u0dd2\u0dc0\u0dba\u0dd2\u0db1 \u0dc4\u0dd9\u0dbd\u0dd2\u0daf\u0dbb\u0dc0\u0dd4\u0dc0\u0dd9\u0db1\u0dca \u0da2\u0db1\u0db4\u0dad\u0dd2 \u0d9a\u0dd2\u0db4\u0dda.. \u0db8\u0dc4 \u0dc3\u0db7\u0dcf\u0dc0\u0d9a \u0db4\u0dad\u0dca\u0dad\u0dbb\u0dd9\u0dca\u0daf \u0db4\u0dd9\u0db1\u0dca\u0dc0\u0dcf \u0daf\u0dd9\u0dc4\u0dd2 \u0d9a\u0db4\u0dba\u0dd2.. [Video]<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n

President Maithripala Sirisena today vowed that he would not allow any foreign court, judge or organization to interfere with the internal administration and judiciary in the country. Though various views are being expressed in various places regarding the bringing of foreign judges and establishing of foreign military courts to take action against the so called human rights violations during the period of war, I will not allow any national or international activity which challenges the freedom, independence and territorial integrity of the country\u201d he said. The President was speaking at the 70th National Upasampada Vinayakarma (Higher Ordination) ceremony of the… -Full Story-<\/a><\/span> (LankaWeb – 11\/07\/16)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ranjith Soysa After reading the headline of Sunday Divaina of 10th July, the President Sirisena blasted the news paper for carrying the news item that War Crimes Investigation will commence in 9 months time and it will be with foreign judges. The report outlined the relevant details and it was written by veteran defence columnist […]<\/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-56517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56517","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=56517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}