{"id":87002,"date":"2019-04-05T15:17:54","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T22:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=87002"},"modified":"2019-04-05T15:17:54","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T22:17:54","slug":"alan-keenan-of-international-crisis-group-caught-lying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/04\/05\/alan-keenan-of-international-crisis-group-caught-lying\/","title":{"rendered":"ALAN KEENAN OF INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP CAUGHT LYING"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>A NOTE from Retd Brigadier Hiran N. Halangode (of Gemunu Watch)<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thuppahi.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/04\/aak2.jpg?w=500&amp;h=375\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-34834\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Michael&nbsp;&nbsp; [Alan Keenan\u2019s recent press release] is a typical tale\nof the sort of stories peddled in the Northern and\nEastern Provinces of Sri Lanka.&nbsp;<strong>The\nsocio-economic conditions prevailing in the neighbouring districts of Uva and\nthe North Central Provinces are very similar.&nbsp;&nbsp;These INGOs spread\nunfavourable messages about the country&nbsp;when the government is bending\nbackwards to Reconcile. It is the Tamil politicians and INGOs that spread\ndistorted versions of the state of the country in those regions without doing\nany productive work themselve<\/strong><strong>s<\/strong>. I have attached a\nwebsite reference&nbsp;http:\/\/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cimicjaffna.com\/Cimicnews_2019_04_04.php\">www.cimicjaffna.com\/Cimicnews_2019_04_04.php<\/a>&nbsp;to\nshow you what the Army is doing in the North to bring about&nbsp; resettlement,\nrehabilitation and&nbsp;reconciliation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Where is the Tamil Diaspora in this effort for\nthe past 10 years!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please tell the truth to the world we have suffered for over 30 years due to\ndeath, destruction, terror and conflict brought about by Tamil terrorists in\nSri Lanka. Where were the Keenan\u2019s and his ilk then, probably enjoying the good\nlife in the UK, now belittling the efforts of a country striving to maintain\npeace and harmony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>I am sad\nthe government doesn\u2019t give publicity to the truth \u2014 thereby allowing the\nKeenan\u2019s and their ilk to spread discord, disunity and polarisation of the\ncommunities in the country to the rest of the world.<\/strong> Sadly he\ntoo has visited the military in the North and met the Army officials on the\n03rd of April 2019 as shown below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A NOTE from Retd Brigadier Hiran N. Halangode (of Gemunu Watch) Michael&nbsp;&nbsp; [Alan Keenan\u2019s recent press release] is a typical tale of the sort of stories peddled in the Northern and Eastern Provinces of Sri Lanka.&nbsp;The socio-economic conditions prevailing in the neighbouring districts of Uva and the North Central Provinces are very similar.&nbsp;&nbsp;These INGOs spread [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87002","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=87002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}