{"id":91395,"date":"2019-07-14T15:19:46","date_gmt":"2019-07-14T22:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=91395"},"modified":"2019-07-14T15:19:46","modified_gmt":"2019-07-14T22:19:46","slug":"robberies-in-broad-daylight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/07\/14\/robberies-in-broad-daylight\/","title":{"rendered":"Robberies in broad daylight"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr Sarath Obeysekera\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>In colloquial sinhala we have words like Kamba horu, pal\n&nbsp;horu, neelakasa horu, ali horu, Karawala horu , Ali baba Saha horu\nhathaliya, jaraa horu , and &nbsp;may &nbsp;be few more pseudonyms ,to\nname&nbsp;a few who are robbers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When you read about the robbing which had taken place in Sri\nLankan Air lines published in Sunday Paper today &nbsp;and plethora of\nnewspaper articles about Robbing the Central Bank , we Sri Lankan should start\nseriously think before we place of cross to elect next parliament and their\nleaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was s news item sometime back when a girl trespassed\ninto a coconut land and stole few coconuts because she did not have money to\neat , the judge almost put her in the prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the crooks who have stolen national wealth are freely\nroaming around .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When we heard about chief of staff of the head of the state\nand another head of a State Corporation being caught red handed when they were\ncounting the loot , &nbsp;we remember the Sinhala saying wattath niyarath\ngoyam ka man Kaata pawadami a Amaruwa <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>{ in a poor translation in means to whom can we complain\nwhen Paddy cultivation is consumed by the fence and bund which is supposed to\nbe protecting it <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"441\" height=\"615\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/HoruR.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-91396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/HoruR.jpg 441w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/HoruR-215x300.jpg 215w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 441px) 100vw, 441px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&#8220;Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.&#8221;<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>When\npeople get power, they always do mean, dishonest things. We shouldn&#8217;t allow\nanyone to have too much power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr\nSarath Obeysekera&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera\u00a0 In colloquial sinhala we have words like Kamba horu, pal &nbsp;horu, neelakasa horu, ali horu, Karawala horu , Ali baba Saha horu hathaliya, jaraa horu , and &nbsp;may &nbsp;be few more pseudonyms ,to name&nbsp;a few who are robbers. When you read about the robbing which had taken place in Sri Lankan Air [&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-91395","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\/91395","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=91395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}