{"id":48349,"date":"2016-09-08T18:16:53","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T22:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=48349"},"modified":"2016-09-08T18:16:53","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T22:16:53","slug":"if-not-for-change-in-government-the-verdict-may-have-been-different-says-a-tearful-hirunika-premachandra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=48349","title":{"rendered":"&#8221; If not for Change in Government the Verdict May have been Different&#8221; says a Tearful Hirunika Premachandra."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Former MP Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra\u2019s daughter Hirunika Premachandra, addressing the media after the verdict of the Colombo Chief Magistrate said justice was achieved because the supremacy of law is protected under the new President.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the Government had not changed, maybe the verdict would have been different,\u201d the weeping UNP MP said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJustice was achieved because the supremacy of law is protected under new President,\u201d she stressed.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI cannot be happy that they were sentenced to death,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am not that inhumane. But injustice was served to us. We still suffer it at home. I still hear my father\u2019s voice when I go home.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now, justice is served,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The Colombo High Court this morning delivered a verdict sentencing former parliamentarian Duminda Silva and four others to death, for killing former MP Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra in a shootout at the Walpola Junction, near Mulleriyawa, on October 08, 2011.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:Daily News<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton48349\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D48349&amp;text=%26%238221%3B%20If%20not%20for%20Change%20in%20Government%20the%20Verdict%20May%20have%20been%20Different%26%238221%3B%20says%20a%20Tearful%20Hirunika...%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>Former MP Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra\u2019s daughter Hirunika Premachandra, addressing the media after the verdict of the Colombo Chief Magistrate said justice was achieved because the supremacy of law is protected under the new President. \u201cIf the Government had not changed, maybe the verdict would have been different,\u201d the weeping UNP MP said. \u201cJustice was achieved &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=48349\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;&#8221; If not for Change in Government the Verdict May have been Different&#8221; says a Tearful Hirunika Premachandra.&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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48349"}],"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=48349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48350,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48349\/revisions\/48350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}