{"id":56575,"date":"2016-07-15T04:28:32","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T11:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=56575"},"modified":"2016-07-15T04:28:32","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T11:28:32","slug":"truck-bomb-ramming-in-nice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/07\/15\/truck-bomb-ramming-in-nice\/","title":{"rendered":"Truck Bomb Ramming In Nice"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM,\u00a0Spokesperson,\u00a0United Sri Lanka Assn.,<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Dear Editor,<\/p>\n<p>Our hearts bleed for the victims of the terrorist ramming of a truck laden with explosives into\u00a0 participants of Bastille day celebrations in Nice France. To Sri Lankan\u2019s it is a grim reminder of the carnage following a similar explosive laden truck ramming \u00a0\u00a0by the Tamil Tiger terrorists \u00a0into the Central Bank in Colombo in January 1996. We support the French President\u2019s undertaking \u00a0\u00a0to seek out the miscreants from wherever, for punishment\u00a0 .<\/p>\n<p>However, I can\u2019t help but also recall that it was the French foreign minister along with his British counterpart that in, April 2009 unsuccessfully pressured the then Sri Lankan president to call off the offensive that ended three decades of Tiger Terrorism\u00a0 in Sri Lanka barely a month later. One hopes that the folly of such pressuring is realized even now.<\/p>\n<p>Even more important would be the French \u00a0and the other western leader\u2019s realization of the folly of the continued persecution of Sri Lanka through the UNHCR, for more and more commissions to investigate\u00a0 unsubstantiated Tiger diaspora \u00a0allegations of human rights violations during their defeat. Many see this as a reprisal for Sri Lanka\u2019s insolence then and economic factors necessitated closeness to China now \u00a0.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM<\/p>\n<p>Spokesperson,<\/p>\n<p>United Sri Lanka Assn.,<\/p>\n<p>Lower Hutt,<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM,\u00a0Spokesperson,\u00a0United Sri Lanka Assn., Dear Editor, Our hearts bleed for the victims of the terrorist ramming of a truck laden with explosives into\u00a0 participants of Bastille day celebrations in Nice France. To Sri Lankan\u2019s it is a grim reminder of the carnage following a similar explosive laden truck ramming \u00a0\u00a0by the Tamil [&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-56575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56575","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=56575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}