{"id":75107,"date":"2018-02-25T13:19:33","date_gmt":"2018-02-25T20:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=75107"},"modified":"2018-02-25T13:25:32","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T20:25:32","slug":"the-recall-of-brigadier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/02\/25\/the-recall-of-brigadier\/","title":{"rendered":"The recall of Brigadier"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>KONARA WANIGASEKARA Kotte\u00a0Courtesy The Island<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Why has Sri Lankan military attach\u00e9, Brig. P. Fernando, been recalled? Has the government gone bonkers? When did it start taking instructions from the British?<\/p>\n<p>Something that Dr ANS Kulasinghe told the Plant &amp; Equipment (P&amp;E) Engineer at Polgolla comes to mind. When did you start taking instructions from the \u2018Baas Unnahe\u2019? He said this when the P&amp;E engineer replied to a question Dr K asked from him, what was it the \u2018Baas Unnahe\u2019 said about what was wrong in the cement bowser?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.island.lk\/modules\/modPublication\/article_title_images\/1805417626brigadiar.jpg\" alt=\"article_image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know who has the authority to talk on behalf of the British. If they talk out of turn, we simply ask them to fly a kite. A proscribed organisation mustn\u2019t be allowed to protest near any embassy.<\/p>\n<p>If the government is going to continue this kind of stupid policies, there is no doubt that very soon the public will pull down the statues of all (or most) of the politicians in the country, and erect those of military-personnel who saved this country.<\/p>\n<p>KONARA WANIGASEKARA<\/p>\n<p>Kotte<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KONARA WANIGASEKARA Kotte\u00a0Courtesy The Island Why has Sri Lankan military attach\u00e9, Brig. P. Fernando, been recalled? Has the government gone bonkers? When did it start taking instructions from the British? Something that Dr ANS Kulasinghe told the Plant &amp; Equipment (P&amp;E) Engineer at Polgolla comes to mind. When did you start taking instructions from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75107","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=75107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}