{"id":57582,"date":"2018-02-09T00:45:33","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T05:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=57582"},"modified":"2018-02-09T00:49:03","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T05:49:03","slug":"state-minister-of-defence-ruwan-wijewardene-praises-brig-priyanka-fernando-for-givig-the-right-signal-to-pro-ltte-diaspora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=57582","title":{"rendered":"State Minister of Defence Ruwan Wijewardene Praises Brig.Priyanka Fernando For Giving the Right Signal to Pro-LTTE Diaspora."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By<\/p>\n<p>Yohan Perera<br \/>\n     <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>State Minister of Defense Ruwan Wijewardene today lauded Minister Counsellor (Defence) Brigadier Priyanka Fernando of the Sri Lankan High Commission in UK, for giving a signal to the pro LTTE Diaspora members whom he said are not genuinely interested in the Tamil community in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy preference is for Brigadier Fernando as he had given the right signal to pro LTTE Diaspora,\u201d he said. The Secretary Ministry of Foreign Affairs made a request to recall him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, the President intervened and asked him to remain in the UK. I am happy about it as the State Minister of Defense, my vote is for the Brigadier as he gave a signal to the pro LTTE group. I thank him as I don\u2019t think any of the pro LTTE people who protested there have ever come to Sri Lanka. They collect funds for various organizations. They don\u2019t love the Tamils at all,\u201d State Minister Wijewardene said. <\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:Daily Mirror<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton57582\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D57582&amp;text=State%20Minister%20of%20Defence%20Ruwan%20Wijewardene%20Praises%20Brig.Priyanka%20Fernando%20For%20Giving%20the%20Right%20Signal%20to...%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>By Yohan Perera State Minister of Defense Ruwan Wijewardene today lauded Minister Counsellor (Defence) Brigadier Priyanka Fernando of the Sri Lankan High Commission in UK, for giving a signal to the pro LTTE Diaspora members whom he said are not genuinely interested in the Tamil community in Sri Lanka.<\/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\/57582"}],"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=57582"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57586,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57582\/revisions\/57586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}