{"id":67924,"date":"2017-07-17T14:41:02","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T21:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=67924"},"modified":"2017-07-17T14:41:02","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T21:41:02","slug":"allegations-against-ex-navy-spokesman-are-false-gammanpila","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/07\/17\/allegations-against-ex-navy-spokesman-are-false-gammanpila\/","title":{"rendered":"Allegations against ex-navy spokesman are false: Gammanpila"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Sheain Fernandopulle Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Allegations against ex-navy spokesman D.K.P. Dassanayake are baseless, Pivithuru\u00a0 Hela Urumaya General Secretary, Udaya Gammanpila said today.<\/p>\n<p>He told a news conference that Commodore Dassanayake was not involved in the abduction and disappearance of 11 youth and the statements made by Police Media Spokesman Ruwan Gunasekara with regard to the allegations were false and baseless.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I challenge the police media spokesman to an open debate so that I could prove who should be arrested over the allegations made against Commodore Dassanayake,&#8221; Mr. Gammanpila said.<\/p>\n<p>He said a war hero should not be held responsible so-called abductions and disappearances.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are not in a position to defend the accused but we are keen to see that justice is meted out and provide evidence against those who should be arrested,&#8221; Mr. Gammanpila said.\u00a0<em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Allegations against ex navy spokesman are false  Gammanpila\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6xRMHYRchP0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheain Fernandopulle Courtesy The Daily Mirror Allegations against ex-navy spokesman D.K.P. Dassanayake are baseless, Pivithuru\u00a0 Hela Urumaya General Secretary, Udaya Gammanpila said today. He told a news conference that Commodore Dassanayake was not involved in the abduction and disappearance of 11 youth and the statements made by Police Media Spokesman Ruwan Gunasekara with regard to [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67924","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=67924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}