{"id":69870,"date":"2017-09-18T15:33:34","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T22:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=69870"},"modified":"2017-09-18T15:34:31","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T22:34:31","slug":"govt-politicians-are-lying-about-the-mandate-of-the-omp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/09\/18\/govt-politicians-are-lying-about-the-mandate-of-the-omp\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt. politicians are lying about the mandate of the OMP"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Premalal Ferdinando Switzerland<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Govt. politicians are lying about the mandate of the OMP. \u00a0The Office of the Missing persons act (OFFICE ON MISSING PERSONS<br \/>\n(ESTABLISHMENT, ADMINISTRATION AND DISCHARGE OF FUNCTIONS) ACT, No. 14 OF 2016\u00a0is available at: <a href=\"http:\/\/imadr.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Sri-Lanka_OMP-Act-No.-14_2016.pdf\">http:\/\/imadr.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Sri-Lanka_OMP-Act-No.-14_2016.pdf<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>From Art. 10(2) and Art 12(b)(i) it is clear that OMP has the mandate to investigate past incidents of missing persons.<\/p>\n<p>The synonyms given for &#8220;most recently&#8221; in the dictionaries are &#8220;more recently than any other time&#8221; and &#8220;last&#8221;. For example the JVP insurrection was in the past. The LTTE war took place &#8220;more recently than the JVP insurrection&#8221;. Therefore, incidents of the LTTE war according to Art 12(b)(i) will come under the mandate of the OMP. Our Prime Minister&#8217;s statement to the contrary is therefore FALSE.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/imadr.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Sri-Lanka_OMP-Act-No.-14_2016.pdf\">http:\/\/imadr.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Sri-Lanka_OMP-Act-No.-14_2016.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Premalal Ferdinando Switzerland Govt. politicians are lying about the mandate of the OMP. \u00a0The Office of the Missing persons act (OFFICE ON MISSING PERSONS (ESTABLISHMENT, ADMINISTRATION AND DISCHARGE OF FUNCTIONS) ACT, No. 14 OF 2016\u00a0is available at: http:\/\/imadr.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Sri-Lanka_OMP-Act-No.-14_2016.pdf. From Art. 10(2) and Art 12(b)(i) it is clear that OMP has the mandate to investigate past [&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-69870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69870","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=69870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}