{"id":72062,"date":"2017-11-26T16:29:54","date_gmt":"2017-11-26T23:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=72062"},"modified":"2017-11-26T16:29:54","modified_gmt":"2017-11-26T23:29:54","slug":"commemorating-ltte-dead-is-tantamount-to-celebrating-every-person-killed-by-the-ltte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/11\/26\/commemorating-ltte-dead-is-tantamount-to-celebrating-every-person-killed-by-the-ltte\/","title":{"rendered":"Commemorating LTTE dead is tantamount to celebrating every person killed by the LTTE"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mahinda Gunasekera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

Your Excellency, Maithripala Sirisena, Hon. Prime Minister, Hon. Cabinet Ministers and Hon. Members of Parliament ,<\/p>\n

Please see the annexed article published By Ms. Shenali D. Waduge highlighting the absurd lengths to which the present government has been directly and knowingly acceded to the extremist demands made by the Tamil National Alliance (Proxy Party representing the banned LTTE) and the TNA controlled Provincial Council of the Northern Province, which goes against the principles of good governance or yahapalanaya.<\/p>\n

Tax payers’ monies paid into the Central Government allocated to the Northern Province under the decentralized budget in the amount of Rupees 4 Million is to be utilized by the NPC for setting up a Museum to commemorate those who died in the ranks of the internationally designated terrorist group known as the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) which carried on armed warfare against the duly elected Government of Sri Lanka for over three decades to break-up the unitary state and establish a separate state encompassing the northern and eastern provinces, extending to nearly 30 percent of the island’s land area and 66 percent of its coastal belt by force of arms, for approximately 8-10 percent of the island’s total population, in which region the resident population is\u00a0 predominantly from the Tamil community. This move to break up the country and form a separate state was attempted knowing full well that the majority of the Tamils lived outside the northern and eastern provinces, and at a time they enjoyed equal rights throughout the country.<\/b><\/p>\n

It is indeed shocking to have the Central Government overlook this serious departure from good governance and silently watch tax payer funds being misused by the NPC. Accepting nonsensical fiscal measures drawn up by the subordinate provincial body with regard to funds allocated to it by the centre is the prime act of irresponsibility, as it in NO WAY helps to bring about RECONCILIATION. <\/b>Is this the irresponsible and wayward manner of a government also embroiled in a major loss to the nation as a result of the Central Bank Bond Scam and attempted cover up, to win the support of the TNA when it next faces the polls? The Minister of Finance must take steps to prevent the misuse of tax funds by the NPC and ensure that same is not misdirected towards the stated objective of establishing a Museum to honour fighters of a proscribed terrorist group which is currently banned.<\/b><\/p>\n

Mahinda Gunasekera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mahinda Gunasekera Your Excellency, Maithripala Sirisena, Hon. Prime Minister, Hon. Cabinet Ministers and Hon. Members of Parliament , Please see the annexed article published By Ms. Shenali D. Waduge highlighting the absurd lengths to which the present government has been directly and knowingly acceded to the extremist demands made by the Tamil National Alliance (Proxy […]<\/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-72062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72062","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=72062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}