{"id":77753,"date":"2018-05-27T15:15:23","date_gmt":"2018-05-27T22:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=77753"},"modified":"2018-05-27T15:15:23","modified_gmt":"2018-05-27T22:15:23","slug":"what-purpose-if-citizens-do-not-have-protection-mr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/05\/27\/what-purpose-if-citizens-do-not-have-protection-mr\/","title":{"rendered":"What purpose if citizens do not have protection: MR"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>Thilanka Kanakarathna\u00a0Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa questioned the country\u2019s law and order stating that there is no purpose if it doesn\u2019t protect the people.<\/p>\n<p>While expressing his condolence on Saturday over the tragic assassination of cricketer Dhananjaya de Silva\u2019s father &#8211; Ranjan de Silva, MP Rajapaksa said authorities should take the matter serious as the incident could add a black mark to the country.<\/p>\n<p>He said the tragedy had occurred due to the actions of these drug kingpins who were operating under the shade of money and political umbrella.<\/p>\n<p>Without bending the country\u2019s law and order IGP Pujith Jayasundara should take immediate actions to curb the drug menace and eradicate crimes,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thilanka Kanakarathna\u00a0Courtesy The Daily Mirror Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa questioned the country\u2019s law and order stating that there is no purpose if it doesn\u2019t protect the people. While expressing his condolence on Saturday over the tragic assassination of cricketer Dhananjaya de Silva\u2019s father &#8211; Ranjan de Silva, MP Rajapaksa said authorities should take the matter [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77753","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=77753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}