{"id":83565,"date":"2018-11-22T04:05:05","date_gmt":"2018-11-22T11:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=83565"},"modified":"2018-11-22T04:05:05","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T11:05:05","slug":"we-purr-and-also-spur-at-the-appropriate-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/11\/22\/we-purr-and-also-spur-at-the-appropriate-time\/","title":{"rendered":"WE PURR, AND ALSO SPUR AT THE APPROPRIATE TIME"},"content":{"rendered":"

RANJITH SOYSA <\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

I, as a SPUR member wish to refer to D. Rajapakese\u2019s concerns on purring SPUR (Island 19th<\/sup> Nov) . While he does not welcome\u201d foreign interference\u201d in Sri Lankan affairs, he obviously does not like when the protesting voice is originated by the overseas Sri Lankans. Be that as it may, among us are Sri Lankan citizens, dual citizens and others who have their parents, sisters and brother living in Sri Lanka and we do travel to Sri Lanka very often. We, in Australia encouraged by the State learn Sinhala, involve in Sinhala cultural practices and celebrate Sinhala New Year in a grand scale notwithstanding gathering\u00a0 in thousands to cheer Sri Lankan cricket team. It is with pride we state that Sinhala plays, films, singers and musicians have a big audiences down under. We still consider Sri Lanka to be our second Mother Land. In short, specially, for the first generation of Sri Lankans or any other community group of migrants it is difficult to cut off their nexus to their own native land.<\/p>\n

Let me also state that we also spur the Sri Lankan Nation at times of need. We have defended the unitary Sri Lanka and its territorial integrity at foreign fora when the FNG0 s and the separatist groups engage in destroying the image of Sri Lanka. We have presented our story of Sri Lanka to the United Nations. Within Sri Lanka we have been looking after over 200 school going children in remote, poor villages and sons and daughters of disabled soldiers\u00a0 by getting sponsors to partly fund their educational needs. We are proud to say that some of them now serve Mother Lanka as surgeons, doctors, teachers including other categories, We funded the disabled soldiers garment factory at Yakkala and provided beds and other equipment to Victory military hospital in Anuradahapura and Ranaviru Sevana. We supplied over 150 artificial legs to the wounded soldiers and provided urgently needed medicine to the army hospitals. It may be interest to note that it was SPUR which send sniffer dogs to Sri Lankan army which saved the lives of civilians from bomb explosions. We took the lead in the building of 25 comfortable houses for Tsunami affected families in Madihe and sent funds to the flood affected in Aranyake and Kalutara. We also sent funds to Lady Ridgeway hospital and Cancer institute in Maharagma.<\/p>\n

We reiterate that we consider it\u2019s our bounden duty to purr and also spur Sri Lanka and we will remain as friends of Sri Lanka like the children for the Mother,<\/p>\n

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RANJITH SOYSA I, as a SPUR member wish to refer to D. Rajapakese\u2019s concerns on purring SPUR (Island 19th Nov) . While he does not welcome\u201d foreign interference\u201d in Sri Lankan affairs, he obviously does not like when the protesting voice is originated by the overseas Sri Lankans. Be that as it may, among us […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ranjith-soysa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83565","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=83565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}