{"id":71769,"date":"2017-11-18T17:02:22","date_gmt":"2017-11-19T00:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=71769"},"modified":"2017-11-18T17:02:22","modified_gmt":"2017-11-19T00:02:22","slug":"dinesh-gunawardena-%e0%b6%af%e0%b7%92%e0%b6%b1%e0%b7%9a%e0%b7%82%e0%b7%8a-%e0%b6%9c%e0%b7%94%e0%b6%ab%e0%b7%80%e0%b6%bb%e0%b7%8a%e0%b6%b0%e0%b6%b1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/11\/18\/dinesh-gunawardena-%e0%b6%af%e0%b7%92%e0%b6%b1%e0%b7%9a%e0%b7%82%e0%b7%8a-%e0%b6%9c%e0%b7%94%e0%b6%ab%e0%b7%80%e0%b6%bb%e0%b7%8a%e0%b6%b0%e0%b6%b1\/","title":{"rendered":"Dinesh Gunawardena \u0daf\u0dd2\u0db1\u0dda\u0dc2\u0dca \u0d9c\u0dd4\u0dab\u0dc0\u0dbb\u0dca\u0db0\u0db1"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>&#8220;Lord Naseby proves 7000 not 40000, not a Genocide, no war crimes&#8221;- Dinesh Gunawardena<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nParliament<br \/>\n2017.11.14<\/h2>\n<p>******<br \/>\n13 November 2017<\/p>\n<p>Hon Speaker<br \/>\nParliament of Sri Lanka<br \/>\nSri Jayawardanapura Kotte<\/p>\n<p>Adjournment Resolution 2017 November 14<\/p>\n<p>I intend to place before the House the following resolution at adjournment on 14 November 2017.<\/p>\n<p>This House resolves<br \/>\nthat,<br \/>\nSince Lord Naseby, addressing Britain\u2019s House of Lords, drew attention to the fact that the casualty figures for the last period of the civil conflict in Sri Lanka, which ended in May 2009, cited in the<br \/>\nUnited Nations\u2019 Darusman Report, were brought into question by the figures quoted by former UN spokesman Gordon Weiss, by former US Ambassador Blake, in the report by the UK\u2019s Major General Holmes, and finally, by the heavily-redacted ommunications from the UK\u2019s Lieutenant Colonel Anton Gash released to him by the British Government; and since he further stated that the UK must recognize that this was a war against<br \/>\nterrorism, so the rules of engagement are based on international humanitarian law, not the European Convention on Human Rights\u201d and that the West, and in particular the US and UK, must remove the threat of war crimes and foreign judges that overhangs and overshadows all Sri Lankans, especially their leaders,\u201d the Government of Sri Lanka should take action to pursue this matter with Britain\u2019s Foreign and Commonwealth Office and with the UN Human Rights Commission to change their unjust positions in regard to Sri Lanka and thereby remove the threat to this country, to its defence forces, and to its leaders, and that the<br \/>\nGovernment should also report back to Parliament on this matter.<\/p>\n<p>Dinesh Gunawardena, MP<br \/>\nLeader of Joint Opposition<\/p>\n<p>CC: Secretary General<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Gunawardena.Dinesh\/videos\/10155059288826680\/?hc_ref=ARRo2vb2SgmmZ7tUK6P5tRgbrGGt1CfEtnkUS7YtoiYFdqEIzsLbQfR70LX6vNAdyP8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Lord Naseby proves 7000 not 40000, not a Genocide, no war crimes&#8221;- Dinesh Gunawardena Parliament 2017.11.14 ****** 13 November 2017 Hon Speaker Parliament of Sri Lanka Sri Jayawardanapura Kotte Adjournment Resolution 2017 November 14 I intend to place before the House the following resolution at adjournment on 14 November 2017. This House resolves that, Since [&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-71769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71769","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=71769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}