{"id":81508,"date":"2018-09-28T23:39:13","date_gmt":"2018-09-29T05:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=81508"},"modified":"2018-09-28T16:35:47","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T23:35:47","slug":"was-president-sirisena-commander-in-chief-during-last-two-weeks-of-the-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/09\/28\/was-president-sirisena-commander-in-chief-during-last-two-weeks-of-the-war\/","title":{"rendered":"WAS PRESIDENT SIRISENA COMMANDER IN CHIEF DURING LAST TWO WEEKS OF THE WAR?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>By M D P DISSANAYAKE<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>We have now found out the name of our Great Commander in Chief, about two weeks prior to the conclusion of the war against Tamil Terrorists.\u00a0 His name is clearly PALLEWATTE GAMARALALAGE MAITHREEPALA SIRISENA\u201d.\u00a0 According to a speech delivered few days ago in New York in the presence of Sri Lankan community he acknowledged the responsibility for ending the war acting in his capacity as Commander in Chief of Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>We have no doubt the United Nations would have heard this loud and clear.\u00a0\u00a0 We have no doubt the Human Rights Commission would have heard this loud and clear.\u00a0 Then how about : (a) Prince Zeid bin Ra\u2019ad Zeid al-Hussein (b) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com.au\/search?rlz=1C1YKST_enAU782AU782&amp;q=Michelle+Bachelet&amp;stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAOPgE-LQz9U3MM1NS1HiBLGMy8uL47UUM8qt9JPzc3JSk0sy8_P084vSE_MyqxJBnGKrjNTEFAApbu9ZOgAAAA&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjUtJaJ3dzdAhWKWrwKHQI2D-MQmxMoATAaegQICBAb\">Michelle Bachelet<\/a> Jeria, (c) Navenetham Pillay who were looking for the alleged culprits for the so called killing of civilians during last stages of war.<\/p>\n<p>Prince Zeid in his capacity as the Commissioner of the Office of Human Rights at the United Nations visited Sri Lanka from 5 to 7 March\u00a0 2018.\u00a0 In addition to touring his famous pilgrimage to North of Sri Lanka, he met Chief Minister Vigneswaran.<\/p>\n<p>In making a public statement before his departure he went on to say I come to you shortly after wrapping up my visit here with meetings with PRESIDENT MAITHREEPALA SIRISENA and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and the Leader of the Opposition, in which we discussed a wide range of issues that will have an important bearing on the future of Sri Lanka. Since arriving here on Saturday, I have also met the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Justice, National Dialogue, and Prison Reforms, Rehabilitation and Resettlement, as well as the Defence Secretary, Chief of Defence Staff, Army and Air Force Commanders and the Chief of Staff of the Navy.\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Has our President SHOT HIMSELF IN THE FOOT\u201d, best called in Sinhala ILLAN KEWADA\u201d?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By M D P DISSANAYAKE We have now found out the name of our Great Commander in Chief, about two weeks prior to the conclusion of the war against Tamil Terrorists.\u00a0 His name is clearly PALLEWATTE GAMARALALAGE MAITHREEPALA SIRISENA\u201d.\u00a0 According to a speech delivered few days ago in New York in the presence of Sri [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-m-d-p-dissanayake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81508","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=81508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}