{"id":51032,"date":"2017-01-24T00:06:41","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T05:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=51032"},"modified":"2017-01-24T00:16:13","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T05:16:13","slug":"mahinda-rajapaksa-ready-to-reveal-name-of-lasantha-wickrematunges-killer-if-cid-questions-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=51032","title":{"rendered":"Mahinda Rajapaksa Ready to Reveal Name of Lasantha Wickrematunge&#8217;s Killer if CID Questions Him."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Norman Palhawadana<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday said that the people of this country knew very well who was behind the killing of former &#8220;Sunday Leader&#8221; editor Lasantha Wickramatunge and if the CID questioned him about the killing he would reveal the identity of the killer.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>When &#8220;The Island&#8221; queried the former President regarding the statement made by Minister Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka to the media at Hunupitiya, Wattala on the killing of former &#8220;Sunday Leader&#8221; editor, the former President said &#8220;Certain elements simply make comments without considering the consequences or its seriousness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rajapaksa said the masses were keeping a watchful eye on what\u2019s going on in the country and they were disgusted of the government.<\/p>\n<p>Fonseka had told the media at a earlier press conference that the CID should interrogate the former President and his brother former Defence Secretary Gotaabhaya Rajapaksa on the Wickramatunge killing.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:The Island<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton51032\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D51032&amp;text=Mahinda%20Rajapaksa%20Ready%20to%20Reveal%20Name%20of%20Lasantha%20Wickrematunge%26%238217%3Bs%20Killer%20if%20CID%20Questions%20Him.&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>By Norman Palhawadana Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday said that the people of this country knew very well who was behind the killing of former &#8220;Sunday Leader&#8221; editor Lasantha Wickramatunge and if the CID questioned him about the killing he would reveal the identity of the killer.<\/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\/51032"}],"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=51032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51033,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51032\/revisions\/51033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}