{"id":67272,"date":"2017-06-24T16:32:23","date_gmt":"2017-06-24T23:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=67272"},"modified":"2017-06-24T16:33:23","modified_gmt":"2017-06-24T23:33:23","slug":"well-known-lawyer-lakshan-dias-flees-sri-lanka-after-justice-minister-wijeyadasa-rajapakshe-threatens-to-take-action-in-two-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/06\/24\/well-known-lawyer-lakshan-dias-flees-sri-lanka-after-justice-minister-wijeyadasa-rajapakshe-threatens-to-take-action-in-two-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Well-known Lawyer Lakshan Dias Flees Sri Lanka After Justice Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe Threatens to Take Action in Two Days.."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr Sarah Obeysekera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Lawyer Lakshan Dias Flees Sri Lanka After Justice Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe Threatens to Take Action ; Source \u2026.DBS Jeyaraj\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/archives\/53873#more-53873\">http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/archives\/53873#more-53873<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was quite surprised to read the article by DBSJ about Chistian Bashing !<\/p>\n<p>I know many Christians and \u00a0Muslims who live in Harmony in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>I also followed the reaction from the minister where he stated that this lawyer should be struck off from the registry lawyers for making such statements<\/p>\n<p>Then the news item says that THE LAWYER \u00a0has fled the country .<\/p>\n<p>NGO\u2019s who fund such scrupulous Human Right Lawyers may have promised him political refugee status in a western country?<\/p>\n<p>Let him run away<\/p>\n<p>We will find a way out to create a society with harmony among all like in Singapore .<\/p>\n<p>This is why I keep advocating that we need the President to be firm in these instances and use his executive powers to stop these nonsense<\/p>\n<p>If a minister is misbehaving like the ones in Wilpattu creating an impression among majority that his actions tantamount to religious \u2013expansion ,he should also be kicked out .<\/p>\n<p>Let Cardinal gives speech in TV in the same podium with Nayake Theros and Muslim Leaders and state that we are a one country one society with equal rights.<\/p>\n<p>I as a Buddhist can vouch that there is harmony .It is BBS and some extreme politicians and these Human Right Lawyers are trying to create the rift to destabilize the country .<\/p>\n<p>( I was approached by a Sinhalese living the Thihariya which a a predominantly muslim stronghold to donate a 10 feet Buddhist statue to be placed in the town\u00a0 to show Muslims that Buddhist are united in the area .I kicked him out of my house !)<\/p>\n<p>Dr Sarah Obeysekera<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarah Obeysekera Lawyer Lakshan Dias Flees Sri Lanka After Justice Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe Threatens to Take Action ; Source \u2026.DBS Jeyaraj\u00a0http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/archives\/53873#more-53873 I was quite surprised to read the article by DBSJ about Chistian Bashing ! I know many Christians and \u00a0Muslims who live in Harmony in Sri Lanka. I also followed the reaction from [&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-67272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67272","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=67272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}