{"id":63594,"date":"2017-02-21T01:48:35","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T07:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=63594"},"modified":"2017-02-20T18:29:43","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T01:29:43","slug":"the-golden-statue-at-sanda-hiru-seya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/02\/21\/the-golden-statue-at-sanda-hiru-seya\/","title":{"rendered":"The golden statue at Sanda Hiru Seya"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>RANJITH SOYSA<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The former Defence Secretary had been summoned by the FCID who is obviously inquiring into the issue of obtaining confiscated gold in the possession of Sri Lanka Navy, to mould a Buddha statue for Sanda Hiru Seya , Anuradhapura. The Sanda Hiru Seya Chaitaya is a national monument constructed in memory of 29,000\u00a0 persons of defence services who made the supreme sacrifice and 14,000 others who were injured in emancipating the country from the yoke of Tamil Tiger Terrorists who waged war against Sri Lankan people and the State for over 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>One wonders how ethical is it to conduct such an inquiry when the State takes steps to construct a Chaitya as Sri Lanka had engaged in such hallowed actions from King Devanampiytissa\u2019s time to the Kandyan period. Even during JRJ\u2019s rule late Mr Gamini Dissanayake erected Mahaveli Seya after completing the Mahaveli scheme utilizing the State resources.<\/p>\n<p>One wonders how the FCID was activated to investigate into this issue and it is important for a responsible organization or an individual to initiate action under Freedom of Information process to ascertain the source so that the general public who will never forget the sacrifices made by the Defence forces to protect the country and the nation will be able to know the traitorous forces which are at work,<\/p>\n<p>The concerned authorities and the Government should be ashamed to have summoned Mr Gotabhaya Rajapakase , one of the architects of the victory over the terrorists like a common criminal to the FCID to inquire into an offering of a Buddha Statue to a Buddhist stupa, especially at a time when the billion rupee bond thieves et are in business as usual.<\/p>\n<p>RANJITH SOYSA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RANJITH SOYSA The former Defence Secretary had been summoned by the FCID who is obviously inquiring into the issue of obtaining confiscated gold in the possession of Sri Lanka Navy, to mould a Buddha statue for Sanda Hiru Seya , Anuradhapura. The Sanda Hiru Seya Chaitaya is a national monument constructed in memory of 29,000\u00a0 [&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-63594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63594","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=63594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}