{"id":81573,"date":"2018-10-01T15:33:01","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T22:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=81573"},"modified":"2018-10-01T15:33:01","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T22:33:01","slug":"gammanpila-claims-counter-plot-to-kill-dig-nalaka-de-silva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/10\/01\/gammanpila-claims-counter-plot-to-kill-dig-nalaka-de-silva\/","title":{"rendered":"Gammanpila claims counter plot to kill DIG Nalaka De Silva"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>Sheain Fernandopulle\u00a0Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>There was a counter plot to kill DIG Nalaka De Silva, who was accused of a plot to assassinate President Maithripala Sirisena and Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Pivithuru Hela Urumaya (PHU) leader and MP Udaya Gammanpila claimed today.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing a news briefing, he said the best option available for the conspirators was assassination of DIG De Silva, so that he would then be silent forever with the secrets he possessed.<\/p>\n<p>We have evidence in the past in relation to cases where prominent people were arrested and remanded irrespective of their offices or social standings when they were accused of such plots.<\/p>\n<p>When the Government received a false information that Vasudeva Nanayakkara was involved in the insurrection in 1971, he was arrested and remanded despite of being a MP in the then Government,\u201d Gammanpila said.<\/p>\n<p>Soon after hearing the attempted coup of 1962, the Government arrested every suspect including several DIGs and Army Colonels,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>An attempt to assassinate the President is not a mere homicide attempt. It is against the State. In such a background, it is questionable as to why the incumbent Government behaves in a strange manner with regard to DIG Silva,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0db1\u0dcf\u0db8\u0dbd\u0dca \u0d9a\u0dd4\u0db8\u0dcf\u0dbb \u0db8\u0dcf\u0db1\u0dc3\u0dd2\u0d9a \u0dbb\u0ddd\u0dc4\u0dbd\u0da7? \u0db1\u0dcf\u0dbd\u0d9a \u0dc3\u0dd2\u0dbd\u0dca\u0dc0\u0dcf \u0d9d\u0dcf\u0dad\u0db1\u0dba \u0d9a\u0dbb\u0dba\u0dd2\u0daf?\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JyvUnIsEztE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheain Fernandopulle\u00a0Courtesy The Daily Mirror There was a counter plot to kill DIG Nalaka De Silva, who was accused of a plot to assassinate President Maithripala Sirisena and Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Pivithuru Hela Urumaya (PHU) leader and MP Udaya Gammanpila claimed today. Addressing a news briefing, he said the best option available for the conspirators was [&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-81573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81573","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=81573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}