{"id":71829,"date":"2017-11-20T18:02:44","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T01:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=71829"},"modified":"2017-11-20T18:02:44","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T01:02:44","slug":"shame-on-the-politicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/11\/20\/shame-on-the-politicians\/","title":{"rendered":"Shame on the politicians"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Mareena Thaha Reffai,<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

After massive damage had been caused at Gintota, to people\u2019s lives, property and morale, \u00a0the Muslim politicians visiting the \u00a0place, having meetings and expressing their views and promises is \u2013 to say the least – \u00a0shameful.<\/p>\n

Where were they when the problem was brewing, when the damage was being enacted by planned group of thugs from outstations? When the social media was giving \u00a0details ball by ball, with live videos and audios, what were the politicians doing? Their phone numbers are regularly circulated \u00a0by the social media as a long long list but how come none of them could be contacted during the crisis? It is not as if it happened in the dead of the night.\u00a0 And this is not the first or second time such co incidences\u201d of the phones of all the politicians going non functional at times of crisis happened.<\/p>\n

Having gone through Aluthgama crisis, and many more attacks on shops, places of worship and individuals, still the reactions of the politicians come always too late.<\/p>\n

Why? Are they scared to face the mob? Are they powerless to wake up the powers that be? Or – Are they too part of the plan anyway? These are questions the people are asking \u2013 not unfairly.<\/p>\n

Enough is enough.\u00a0 It\u2019s time the politicians rise to the occasion as and when the calamity is happening. Not long later when the dust has settled. When a few lives are lost. When irreparable damage is done.\u00a0 It\u2019s time every politician set up hot lines \u2013 preferably more then one at each ministry \u2013 to receive warnings when any trouble is brewing in any part of the country. It\u2019s time the politicians give up their beauty sleep once in a blue moon to attend to the crisis BEFORE IT HAPPENS.<\/p>\n

IT\u2019S TIME PEOPLE DMEANDED THE POLITICIANS TO \u00a0PROTECT AND SAVE THE PEOPLE WHO VOTED FOR THEM. After all, they did come to power by promising a better tomorrow. When is that tomorrow due?<\/p>\n

Sent by:<\/p>\n

Dr. Mareena Thaha Reffai,<\/p>\n

23A, Auburn side, Dehiwela<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr. Mareena Thaha Reffai, After massive damage had been caused at Gintota, to people\u2019s lives, property and morale, \u00a0the Muslim politicians visiting the \u00a0place, having meetings and expressing their views and promises is \u2013 to say the least – \u00a0shameful. Where were they when the problem was brewing, when the damage was being enacted by […]<\/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-71829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71829","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=71829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}