{"id":84500,"date":"2019-01-02T00:11:22","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T06:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=84500"},"modified":"2019-01-01T15:47:31","modified_gmt":"2019-01-01T22:47:31","slug":"prins-gunasekara-is-no-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/01\/02\/prins-gunasekara-is-no-more\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cPRINS GUNASEKARA IS NO MORE\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sarath Wijesinghe\u00a0\u00a0 (former Ambassador to UAE and Israel)<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Prins 94 years\u00a0 is no more with us having sacrificed the life for the needy and downtrodden over\u00a0 seventy five years as a young activist, Journalist, Leader of the villagers, Politician, writer, senior member of the Parliament\u00a0 and a rare breed\u00a0 as one of the most honest politicians ever in the parliamentary history as declared by none other than Sam Wijesinghe former Secretary of the Parliament and first Ombudsman a legendary in public life as \u00a0 Prins is one of the honest Members of the Parliament I have ever come across. He is a great politician who will not compromise for his views on the nation and for the citizen committed to serve.\u201d He has been a unique personality as a clean politician fought for independence of the judiciary, rule of law, human rights when the standards are miserably lowering\u00a0 down to the lowest ebb – especially the rampant bribery and\u00a0 corruption in the legislature and the administration with the administration of justice with laws delays and lack of proper access to justice for the litigants against which Prins fought hard in Sri Lanka and United Kingdom as an activist and patrons of many international organizations.<\/p>\n

As a Journalist he pioneered Lankadeepa Sinhala Daily\u201d in the capacity of\u00a0 the first deputy editor under D. B. Dhanapala the great legendary Journalist Guru, and continued his career as a journals and a lawyer fearlessly until he was forced to leave Sri Lanka to flee to save his life and the family from JVP and Government death squads resulted on\u00a0 deaths and disappearances of\u00a0 over 60,000 deaths of Sri Lankan\u00a0 youth when the world was looking the other way on mass murders and destructions by JVP and death squads by then para military forces alleged by then government on clamping terrorism engulfed the entire country in fear of deaths and destructions. Over 32 lawyers were killed including his nephew and junior lawyers by terrorists and government goons then. He was taken to UK by HE David Gladstone personally – then High Commissioner and the family was\u00a0 looked after in UK by Lord Avebury – a world renewed human right activist. He has authored large number of books in Sinhala and English and the presence was felt in all courts in Sri Lanka as a senior Lawyer and a Barrister in the United Kingdom. He contributed immensely to the Sri Lankan and UK jurisprudence and the development of the international human rights and humanitarian law and practice.<\/p>\n

Prins is a clean politician without bribery and corruption with exemplary qualities with humility for the human kind and a person dedicated to serve others a rare breed in the society today He led an exemplary family life with Dr Sriya and the three daughters who stood by him in all seasons and stormy conditions due to his political and activism on human rights. He is famous for leading a simple life and speak straight with the golden quality of the ability to walk with kings not leaving the common touch with the village villagers and the common man he loved so much. He is the last in his era of politicians of highest integrity leaving a vacuum in the society. He and his great services are ever remembered.<\/p>\n

Sarath Wijesinghe<\/p>\n

Sarath7@Hotmail.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sarath Wijesinghe\u00a0\u00a0 (former Ambassador to UAE and Israel) Prins 94 years\u00a0 is no more with us having sacrificed the life for the needy and downtrodden over\u00a0 seventy five years as a young activist, Journalist, Leader of the villagers, Politician, writer, senior member of the Parliament\u00a0 and a rare breed\u00a0 as one of the most honest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sarath-wijesinghe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84500","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=84500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}