{"id":87486,"date":"2019-04-23T14:15:28","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T21:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=87486"},"modified":"2019-04-23T14:15:28","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T21:15:28","slug":"our-sorrow-and-condolences-to-the-victims-and-families-of-the-sri-lankas-easter-carnage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/04\/23\/our-sorrow-and-condolences-to-the-victims-and-families-of-the-sri-lankas-easter-carnage\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Sorrow and Condolences to the Victims and Families of the Sri Lanka\u2019s Easter Carnage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Society for Peace, Unity and Human Rights in Sri Lanka (SPUR) NSW Inc Australia<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

Our Society expresses its\nprofound and heartfelt sorrow on the senseless killing of innocents in Sri\nLanka. Our thoughts are with the families and persons affected by the deaths,\ngrievous injury and destruction of property by terrorists who have caused fear\nand terror in the people of Sri Lanka and to the visitors to the island. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We give our condolences to\nthe Christians who had been targetted on their Holiest Day of Easter Sunday\nwhilst at prayer with sacred thoughts and goodwill at heart. This is a heinous\ncrime our Society condemns unreservedly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our Society has been in the\nforefront of anti-terrorism in the 30 years of terrorism, conflict and the\ncarnage in Sri Lanka which ended in 2009. Such an ending was possible due to\nthe selfless life sacrifices made by members of our valiant defence forces. We\nwill continue to assist in Sri Lankans to overcome the scourge of terrorism foisted\non them once again this Easter Sunday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our Society also condemns\nmultiple policy weaknesses of the present government in Sri Lanka that has\ncontributed to the carnage. The government has deliberately let the guard down\nfrom 2015 in Sri Lanka even when surrounded by a world of enhanced extremist\nideology, expansionist ethnic and religious greed, indoctrination through\nre-constructed histories, fake news, malicious propaganda, uncontrolled\nundisciplined social media and by open terrorism. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The government of Sri Lanka\nhas again started bending backwards to please terrorist fronts who manipulate\nand operate through national and international agencies both government and\nnon-government. Our security forces had been belittled, then witch-hunted time\nand again, and its moral broken and almost equated to terrorists themselves.\nOur intelligence agencies treated step-motherly, politicised, disbanded or\ntheir funding cut. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this time of great\nsorrow let us pray and wish for the speedy recovery of all injured, the\nrecovery from physical, mental and emotional damage caused to themselves and to\nthose near and dear. Our respect and thoughts lie with the three members of the\nsecurity forces and their families for the selfless sacrifice made in\napprehending the suspects to this crime. It is once again time for those who\ndeliberately forgot the security forces to reflect their undeniable worth and\nvalour. Our thoughts are also with all Sri Lankans and others affected by these\nbarbaric acts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us also urge the\npersons in power or had been in power in Sri Lanka, not to find escape routes\nand hide behind flimsy excuses being made to the citizens, but to reflect upon\ntheir own deliberate actions in the past few years that contributed to this\ndebacle, and take responsibility like leaders. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

They will need to work for\nthe good of the people, and to immediately stop working for their own selves and\nfor their own political survival only. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nimal Liyanage                 <\/strong>                                                                                Nihal Jayasinghe <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

President                                                                                                            \nSecretary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Society for Peace, Unity and Human Rights in Sri Lanka (SPUR) NSW Inc Australia Our Society expresses its profound and heartfelt sorrow on the senseless killing of innocents in Sri Lanka. Our thoughts are with the families and persons affected by the deaths, grievous injury and destruction of property by terrorists who have caused fear […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87486","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=87486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}