{"id":87693,"date":"2019-04-25T15:48:54","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T22:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=87693"},"modified":"2019-04-25T15:48:54","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T22:48:54","slug":"the-terrorist-attacks-carried-churches-and-hotels-in-sri-lanla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/04\/25\/the-terrorist-attacks-carried-churches-and-hotels-in-sri-lanla\/","title":{"rendered":"The terrorist attacks carried churches and hotels in Sri Lanla"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>International Network for Sri Lankan Democracy (INSD), Stuttgart\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>We at&nbsp;International\nNetwork for Sri Lankan Democracy&nbsp;(INSD) condemn the terrorist attacks\ncarried out&nbsp;targeting&nbsp;churches and hotels in Sri\nLanka&nbsp;claiming&nbsp;lives of over 300 innocent&nbsp;civilians&nbsp;including&nbsp;foreigners,&nbsp;and\ninjuring nearly 500.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We commend the people\nof Sri Lanka for the patient manner in which they reacted at a time of shock\nand immense grief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A close look at the\nfacts shows that the government of Sri Lanka could have avoided this disaster\nif due consideration had been given to&nbsp;&nbsp;the&nbsp;information provided\nby international intelligence&nbsp;with regard to the attacks. The fact that\nthe Minister of Defense who is also the President, to whose attention this\ninformation had been brought, completely ignored the matter at the heavy cost\nof civilian lives, is appalling. Further, it has been brought to light that the\nMinister of Defense failed to inform the Prime Minister, the second citizen of\nthe country, about this crucial matter concerning the security of the people.\nThis appears to be purposeful. The Minister of Defense, with his stubbornness\nand arrogance, has once more failed the country and should be held responsible\nfor the innocent lives lost.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We call upon the government\nof Sri Lanka to bring to justice all involved in the terror attack as well as\nall officers guilty of unethical conduct.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, we request\nall citizens to remain composed and cautious, to extend your fullest\ncorporation to bring the terrorists to justice and to disregard the actions of\nindividuals and groups who are trying to gain political advantage using this\nsituation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ranjith Lochbihler.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sivasamy Sivarajan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mankayatkarasy\nSivarajan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ruwandi\nSilva.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Krishna\nsubramania.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Senaka\nWattegedara.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Network for Sri Lankan Democracy (INSD), Stuttgart\u00a0 We at&nbsp;International Network for Sri Lankan Democracy&nbsp;(INSD) condemn the terrorist attacks carried out&nbsp;targeting&nbsp;churches and hotels in Sri Lanka&nbsp;claiming&nbsp;lives of over 300 innocent&nbsp;civilians&nbsp;including&nbsp;foreigners,&nbsp;and injuring nearly 500.&nbsp;&nbsp; We commend the people of Sri Lanka for the patient manner in which they reacted at a time of shock and immense [&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-87693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87693","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=87693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}