{"id":88560,"date":"2019-05-11T14:17:25","date_gmt":"2019-05-11T21:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=88560"},"modified":"2019-05-11T14:17:25","modified_gmt":"2019-05-11T21:17:25","slug":"i-would-resign-if-attacks-occurred-while-i-was-law-order-minister-madduma-bandara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/05\/11\/i-would-resign-if-attacks-occurred-while-i-was-law-order-minister-madduma-bandara\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I would resign if attacks occurred while I was Law &#038; Order Minister\u2019 \u2013 Madduma Bandara"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Minister Ranjith Madduma Bandara says that attempts are being made to create a false fear that the country\u2019s intelligence units were weakened under the incumbent government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said that the intelligence units had done their duty correctly in the recent past and that it was them who alerted about the possible terror attacks in advance. He said that the mistake was that no action was taken on that important intel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0db8\u0dda \u0dc3\u0dd2\u0daf\u0dca\u0db0\u0dd2\u0dba \u0db8\u0d9c\u0dda \u0d9a\u0dcf\u0dbd\u0dda \u0dc0\u0dd4\u0db1\u0dcf \u0db1\u0db8\u0dca \u0db8\u0d82 \u0d89\u0dbd\u0dca\u0dbd\u0dcf \u0d85\u0dc3\u0dca\u0dc0\u0dd9\u0db1\u0dc0\u0dcf\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/us-xaeO8Wjc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is not the UNP\u2019s responsibility. If this incident had occurred during the time that I was the Ministe of Law &amp; Order, I would resign,\u201d he said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The former Law &amp; Order Minister sated that certain individuals survive by selling off the war and war heroes and that they are now making claims that this government destroyed the intelligence services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Minister Ranjith Madduma Bandara says that attempts are being made to create a false fear that the country\u2019s intelligence units were weakened under the incumbent government. He said that the intelligence units had done their duty correctly in the recent past and that it was them who alerted about the possible terror attacks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88560","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=88560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}