{"id":67404,"date":"2017-06-29T17:30:29","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T00:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=67404"},"modified":"2017-06-29T17:30:29","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T00:30:29","slug":"ex-ltte-leaders-wife-sworn-in-as-north-lanka-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/06\/29\/ex-ltte-leaders-wife-sworn-in-as-north-lanka-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-LTTE leader&#8217;s wife sworn in as north Lanka minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy DNA<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The wife of a former top LTTE leader was today sworn in as a minister in Sri Lanka&#8217;s northern provincial council.<\/p>\n<p>Ananthi Saseetharan was appointed as the minister of rehabilitation and women&#8217;s affairs by Chief Minister C V Wigneswaran in the reshuffle of the northern council of ministers.<\/p>\n<p>Saseetharan&#8217;s husband Velayutham Sasitharan alias Elilan was the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE&#8217;s) eastern political commissar when the LTTE ran a parallel administration in the North and East provinces.<\/p>\n<p>Saseetharan said she is still looking for justice for her husband whom she claimed had disappeared in the final battle of May 2009 when he had surrendered to the military.<\/p>\n<p>Elilans disappearance was cited by her in many complaints lodged with international rights organisations including the UN Human Rights Council.<\/p>\n<p>(This article has not been edited by DNA&#8217;s editorial team and is auto-generated from an agency feed.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy DNA The wife of a former top LTTE leader was today sworn in as a minister in Sri Lanka&#8217;s northern provincial council. Ananthi Saseetharan was appointed as the minister of rehabilitation and women&#8217;s affairs by Chief Minister C V Wigneswaran in the reshuffle of the northern council of ministers. Saseetharan&#8217;s husband Velayutham Sasitharan alias [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67404","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=67404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}