{"id":74513,"date":"2018-02-07T07:48:04","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T14:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=74513"},"modified":"2018-02-07T07:48:04","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T14:48:04","slug":"%e0%b6%bd%e0%b6%b1%e0%b7%8a%e0%b6%a9%e0%b6%b1%e0%b6%ba%e0%b7%9a%e0%b6%af%e0%b7%93-%e0%b6%9a%e0%b7%9c%e0%b6%a7%e0%b7%92-%e0%b6%b6%e0%b6%ba%e0%b6%b7%e0%b7%93%e0%b6%ad-%e0%b6%9a%e0%b6%bd-%e0%b6%bb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/02\/07\/%e0%b6%bd%e0%b6%b1%e0%b7%8a%e0%b6%a9%e0%b6%b1%e0%b6%ba%e0%b7%9a%e0%b6%af%e0%b7%93-%e0%b6%9a%e0%b7%9c%e0%b6%a7%e0%b7%92-%e0%b6%b6%e0%b6%ba%e0%b6%b7%e0%b7%93%e0%b6%ad-%e0%b6%9a%e0%b6%bd-%e0%b6%bb\/","title":{"rendered":"\u0dbd\u0db1\u0dca\u0da9\u0db1\u0dba\u0dda\u0daf\u0dd3 \u0d9a\u0ddc\u0da7\u0dd2 \u0db6\u0dba\u0db7\u0dd3\u0dad \u0d9a\u0dbd \u0dbb\u0dab\u0dc0\u0dd2\u0dbb\u0dd4\u0dc0\u0dcf \u0dc0\u0dd9\u0db1\u0dd4\u0dc0\u0dd9\u0db1\u0dca \u0da2\u0db1\u0db4\u0dad\u0dd2 \u0db4\u0dd9\u0dbb\u0da7.. \u0dc3\u0dd2\u0dba\u0dc5\u0dd4 \u0d9c\u0dde\u0dbb\u0dc0 \u0dc3\u0dc4\u0dd2\u0dad\u0dc0 \u0dc3\u0dda\u0dc0\u0dba\u0dda \u0dba\u0dbd\u0dd2 \u0db4\u0dd2\u0dc4\u0dd2\u0da7\u0dd4\u0dc0\u0dba\u0dd2.. \u0dc4\u0db8\u0dd4\u0daf\u0dcf\u0db4\u0dad\u0dd2\u0dad\u0dca \u0d94\u0dc4\u0dd4 \u0dc0\u0dd9\u0db1\u0dd4\u0dc0\u0dd9\u0db1\u0dca.."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>Dr. Sarath Obeysekera<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>When I read this news\u00a0 item \u00a0I feel that any true Sinhala Person will get agitated and angry when you get insulted like this by tigers .<\/p>\n<p>Unless you show the enemy that you are stronger ,they will re attack<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-74514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/sarath070218.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/sarath070218.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/sarath070218-300x159.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In 1970\u2019s\u00a0 \u2018s I was in London staying in the Students Centre .Much before Tamil Tigers became very strong .Many Tamil youngsters surrounded Sri Lankan\u00a0 High commission and came to the student centre .There \u00a0were only few Sinhala students and out numbered .\u00a0 Few Tamil boys walked into the Centre\u00a0 shouting\u00a0 in Sinahala callin us  Sinhalaya Modaya !\u201d\u201d and behaving aggressively .Police was called in and they were dispersed .<\/p>\n<p>What do you think \u00a0we did with few Sinhala students .?We walked towards Paddington Station and confronted few aggressive boys .We beat the hell out of them and quietly retreated .<\/p>\n<p>Message came to the crowd in front of the Embassy and they became more vociferous, but nothing could be done.<\/p>\n<p>I am generally a non-racist ,but when it comes to being insulted I will never keep quite .<\/p>\n<p>If I was standing in that place where the Brigadier was I would have made similar or more threatening gesture.<\/p>\n<p>Long live Sri Lankan Forces who have fought to eradicate the tiger menace<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Sarath Obeysekera When I read this news\u00a0 item \u00a0I feel that any true Sinhala Person will get agitated and angry when you get insulted like this by tigers . Unless you show the enemy that you are stronger ,they will re attack In 1970\u2019s\u00a0 \u2018s I was in London staying in the Students Centre [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-sarath-obeysekera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74513","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=74513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}