{"id":90069,"date":"2019-06-08T12:40:05","date_gmt":"2019-06-08T19:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=90069"},"modified":"2019-06-08T12:40:05","modified_gmt":"2019-06-08T19:40:05","slug":"parliament-select-committee-reminds-me-of-sinhala-garayaka-ritual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/06\/08\/parliament-select-committee-reminds-me-of-sinhala-garayaka-ritual\/","title":{"rendered":"Parliament select committee reminds me of Sinhala Garayaka ritual"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr Sarath OBEYSEKERA\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Former Defence Secretary Hemasiri Fernando says that the Director of the\nState Intelligence Service (SIS) had sent him a message on WhatsApp the day\nbefore the Easter attacks took place.<\/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=\"Gara Yaka\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S5KNic8TwTw?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>Testifying\nbefore the Special Parliament Select Committee appointed to look into the\nEaster attack yesterday (06), the former defence secretary stated that he was\nnot well on the day the message was received.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said he was\nnot well that day and that he was sleeping, as he had a very bad headache\u201d.\nFernando says he received a call from the director of SIS asking him to check\nthe WhatsApp message the latter had sent, which contained information on a\npossible attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Normally I\ndon\u2019t like WhatsApp, but I read it,\u201d the former defence secretary told the\nselect committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The director\nof SIS had said, during the telephone conversation, that he had already spoken\nto the IGP on the relevant information and asked Hemasiri Fernando to put some\npressure\u201d on the IGP in this regard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The former\ndefence secretary says that he subsequently contacted the IGP on the matter and\nconfirmed that the IGP was already aware of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The IGP has\ntold that he was already making arrangements regarding the information\nreceived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The former\ndefence secretary says that he tried to contact the director of the SIS\nafterwards but he could not be contacted. I sent him a message and he spoke to\nthe IGP.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He further\nstated that the director of SIS had contacted him hours before the attacks\nquerying him on the number of Methodist churches in Colombo, as the forewarning\nhas said the target of the attack is not Catholic Churches<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These few days people have &nbsp;been watching the\nproceedings of select committee appointed by the parliament to inquire about\nthe Easter Sunday attacks my Saharan &#8211; the devil&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You see how IGP and defence secretary playing the role of\ndevil ( garayaka) and various healers ( yakaduro) posing hilarious questions\nabout the Easter Sunday incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just like the audience in the Gara Yasa ritual I am sure\nthat people keep laughing about the questions and the hilarious answers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Funniest answer was from defence secretary when he mentioned\nthat chief of intelligence asked him about the location of Mehodist churches in\nColombo .i<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He opted to ask a friend  option as in Lahshpathi reality\nshow .His friend told him where the Methodist churches where Devil May attack .\nIs that all ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>IGP and both Defence secretary were the unwanted children in\nthe family&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People will say  Anae pow\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yakadoro like the chief field marshal was giving the answers\nto the questions posed to get reply what they want in order crucify ( sorry in\nSinhala Bill Puja) of the president who was preaching another foreign god in\nThirupathi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally tree in which Gara Yaka keeps shaking will collapse\nand the humour of the public will remain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday the main devil called a meeting of the yakaduro\nand warned them<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Sarath OBEYSEKERA&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watch Gara yaka rutual for entertainment <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath OBEYSEKERA\u00a0 Former Defence Secretary Hemasiri Fernando says that the Director of the State Intelligence Service (SIS) had sent him a message on WhatsApp the day before the Easter attacks took place. Testifying before the Special Parliament Select Committee appointed to look into the Easter attack yesterday (06), the former defence secretary stated that [&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-90069","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\/90069","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=90069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}