{"id":79717,"date":"2018-07-29T15:58:06","date_gmt":"2018-07-29T22:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=79717"},"modified":"2018-07-29T15:58:06","modified_gmt":"2018-07-29T22:58:06","slug":"the-forgotten-thirteen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/07\/29\/the-forgotten-thirteen\/","title":{"rendered":"The Forgotten Thirteen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Second Lieutenant A.P.N.C. De Vaas Gunawardene and twelve other Army personnel were brutally killed in an ambush of the ill-fated Four Four Bravo patrol by the LTTE at Tinneveli on July 23, 1983.<\/p>\n<p>They were innocent of any crime and were only performing their professional and military duties while engaging in routine Patrol of the districts of Jaffna for reasons of security.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately there is no remembrance of these brave soldiers who died fighting purely in self &#8211; defense. While the biased media are full of stories of the events that followed the incident of July 23, 1983, no English language newspaper has thought it fit to give space and detailed accounts of the last stand of the 13 Sinhalese soldiers who died valiantly as a result of a cowardly ambush.<\/p>\n<h1>A. P. N. C. De S. Vaas Gunawardene<\/h1>\n<p>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/A._P._N._C._De_S._Vaas_Gunawardene\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/A._P._N._C._De_S._Vaas_Gunawardene<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Second Lieutenant A.P.N.C. De Vaas Gunawardene and twelve other Army personnel were brutally killed in an ambush of the ill-fated Four Four Bravo patrol by the LTTE at Tinneveli on July 23, 1983. They were innocent of any crime and were only performing their professional and military duties while engaging in routine Patrol of 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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79717","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=79717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}