{"id":77487,"date":"2018-05-18T15:47:37","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T22:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=77487"},"modified":"2018-05-18T15:47:37","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T22:47:37","slug":"rajitha-factually-incorrect-dead-tamil-terrorists-not-children-of-mother-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/05\/18\/rajitha-factually-incorrect-dead-tamil-terrorists-not-children-of-mother-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Rajitha Factually Incorrect: Dead Tamil Terrorists Not Children of Mother Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>\u00a0Dilrook Kannangara<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Rajitha made another joke recently saying dead Tamil terrorists were also children of Mother Lanka. It is not true. They were never sons and daughters of this nation. In fact, they did their very best to murder Mother Lanka and thankfully failed. They were self-admitted children of a mythical nation called Tamil Eelam. Their dream nation was buried along with them.<\/p>\n<p>At least 35% of Tamil terrorists were citizens of the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. They were never citizens of Sri Lanka. There is no record of them living or dying in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>Tamil terrorists killed 28,589 service personnel and 10,228 civilians. In total 38,817 Sri Lankans were killed by Tamil terrorists and this is the total number of Sri Lankans who sacrificed their lives for the nation. All victims of Sri Lanka\u2019s legitimate forces and pro-government paramilitaries don\u2019t deserve to be called Sri Lankans.<\/p>\n<p>No one takes Rajitha seriously. However, he must not make a fool of himself with this type of misstatements. Sri Lanka is not a refuge of stateless people no matter how sympathetic the local population may be towards them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Dilrook Kannangara Rajitha made another joke recently saying dead Tamil terrorists were also children of Mother Lanka. It is not true. They were never sons and daughters of this nation. In fact, they did their very best to murder Mother Lanka and thankfully failed. They were self-admitted children of a mythical nation called Tamil Eelam. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dilrook-kannangara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77487","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=77487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}