{"id":23267,"date":"2013-07-26T06:20:34","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T10:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=23267"},"modified":"2013-07-27T11:55:25","modified_gmt":"2013-07-27T15:55:25","slug":"address-by-m-a-sumanthiran-mp-on-30-the-anniversary-of-black-july-in-parliament-of-sri-lanka-23-july-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=23267","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka Governments twice in my student-days confirmed that I will be safe in my &#8216;Homeland&#8217; &#8211; MA Sumanthiran MP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>M<\/strong> A Sumanthiran MP speaks in remembrance of Black July, the anti Tamil progrom and riots of July 1983. The TNA parliamentarian made the remarks ahead of a session on July 23, 2013 regarding Sri Lanka Electricity Board Amendment Bill<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/MAS072613.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/MAS072613.jpg\" alt=\"MAS072613\" width=\"478\" height=\"358\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23272\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He describes the dark period in Sri Lankan history which has split the individual and collective living experience in this country:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/inImYj3IFfk?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Part 1 (22 minutes)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NfSSzDcm8V0?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Part 2 (13 minutes) &#8211; <em>The sound at 10:20 to 10:50 drops out because it has been expunged from the Parliament record.<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton23267\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D23267&amp;text=Sri%20Lanka%20Governments%20twice%20in%20my%20student-days%20confirmed%20that%20I%20will%20be%20safe%20in%20my%20%26%238216%3BHomeland%26%238217%3B...%20&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M A Sumanthiran MP speaks in remembrance of Black July, the anti Tamil progrom and riots of July 1983. The TNA parliamentarian made the remarks ahead of a session on July 23, 2013 regarding Sri Lanka Electricity Board Amendment Bill He describes the dark period in Sri Lankan history which has split the individual and &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=23267\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Sri Lanka Governments twice in my student-days confirmed that I will be safe in my &#8216;Homeland&#8217; &#8211; MA Sumanthiran MP&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23267"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23267"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23304,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23267\/revisions\/23304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}