{"id":95529,"date":"2019-11-22T17:16:08","date_gmt":"2019-11-23T00:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=95529"},"modified":"2019-11-22T17:16:08","modified_gmt":"2019-11-23T00:16:08","slug":"mcc-corporation-proposed-zone-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/11\/22\/mcc-corporation-proposed-zone-in-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"MCC Corporation Proposed Zone in Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>orpheus perera<\/em> <\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p> Millennium\u00a0 Challenge Corporation was set up as an alternate to providing  American AID to the 3rd world. Around 2004, Americans must have thought, why  they help any country, unless they have some control over them politically as  well as economically.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you inspect existing MCC corporation zones in most countries,  it is different how the zone(Proposed) done in Sri Lanka. It divides the country  into two. The danger here reminds me of a statement made by former US ambassador  Robert O Blake, when Sri\u00a0Lankan forces were advancing, beating LTTE. &#8220;LTTE will never be  defeated, even if they do, they will do a comeback later because they are  resilient&#8221;. According to what I have read\u00a0 MCC has full land rights in the  proposed zone. If this is done this way and if a terrorist uprising takes place  again in the top part of the country, even Sri Lankan army will not be able to  go to the North to combat it. Your Excellency, the President,Goatabaya Rajapaksha ,\u00a0 if you have not given any  thoughts about it, please think about it. It is a different issue if you set up  more than one MCC zone(Eg. One in Trincomali, one in Batticaloa one in Jaffna  peninsula and one in Matara.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br> Asian Tribune Report:- <br><a href=\"http:\/\/asiantribune.com\/node\/93190\">http:\/\/asiantribune.com\/node\/93190<\/a><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>orpheus perera Millennium\u00a0 Challenge Corporation was set up as an alternate to providing American AID to the 3rd world. Around 2004, Americans must have thought, why they help any country, unless they have some control over them politically as well as economically.\u00a0 If you inspect existing MCC corporation zones in most countries, it is different [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orpheus-perera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95529","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=95529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}