{"id":88847,"date":"2019-05-15T14:59:02","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T21:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=88847"},"modified":"2019-05-15T16:13:02","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T23:13:02","slug":"exemplary-minister-and-a-honourable-politician-mr-athulathmudali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/05\/15\/exemplary-minister-and-a-honourable-politician-mr-athulathmudali\/","title":{"rendered":"Exemplary. Minister and a honourable politician Mr Athulathmudali"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>When I see how government ministers and opposition\npoliticians and politically motivated artists &nbsp;express various views\nindirectly supporting and even abetting terrorism &nbsp;and also tend to\ninterfere in police actions against wrongdoers in various areas ,I feel sad\nthat we lost leader like Athulathmudali who would have act differently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In eighties one of his nephew was arrested by police for\nactive involvement In JVP &nbsp;activities and kept in Panagoda camp<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His father who was a ex military office met me after coming\nfrom UK to try to get him released.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ministers flatly refused &nbsp;to interfere<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After he was released I gave him a sponsor letter to run\naway to UK<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our blabbering politicians should stop interfering with the\npolice actions against &nbsp;Muslim terrorists as well as Sinhalese racist\nelements &nbsp;who are trying to destablise the good name of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BBC and some western press organisations are already going\nto town trying to tell the world that Sinhalese &nbsp;Buddhists are very racist\n.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My contention still stands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We need a just and benevolent brave leader to take matters\nto their hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Military top brass should stop playing political games&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One voice from one leader should decide how to tackle the\nsituation&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That is the need of the hour&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera When I see how government ministers and opposition politicians and politically motivated artists &nbsp;express various views indirectly supporting and even abetting terrorism &nbsp;and also tend to interfere in police actions against wrongdoers in various areas ,I feel sad that we lost leader like Athulathmudali who would have act differently. In eighties one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-sarath-obeysekera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88847","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=88847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}