{"id":88618,"date":"2019-05-12T14:42:51","date_gmt":"2019-05-12T21:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=88618"},"modified":"2019-05-12T14:42:51","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T21:42:51","slug":"ovt-must-guarantee-security-of-the-country-mahinda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/05\/12\/ovt-must-guarantee-security-of-the-country-mahinda\/","title":{"rendered":"ovt. must guarantee security of the country &#8211; Mahinda"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Leader of the Opposition Mahinda Rajapaksa stated that the government should provide a guarantee regarding the security of the country especially in a background where the schools will be starting again from tomorrow (13).<\/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=\"People have no faith in security of country - Mahinda (English)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SLGM6-regN4?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>Stating that the past government commenced the missions in search of extremists, he claimed that the current situation arose as a result of destroying the system where they had sent spies into these extremist organizations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He says that the government needs to think twice on opening the schools tomorrow when there are warnings of a possible attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rajapaksa says that there needs to have one voice between the President and the Prime Minister guaranteeing the security of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, the Opposition Leader stated that Vesak should be celebrated with much more enthusiasm than usual, at the temples.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Leader of the Opposition Mahinda Rajapaksa stated that the government should provide a guarantee regarding the security of the country especially in a background where the schools will be starting again from tomorrow (13). Stating that the past government commenced the missions in search of extremists, he claimed that the current situation [&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-88618","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\/88618","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=88618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}