{"id":57926,"date":"2018-02-23T17:26:15","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T22:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=57926"},"modified":"2018-02-23T17:26:15","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T22:26:15","slug":"ltte-supporters-in-uk-succeed-in-getting-britain-to-pressures-sri-lanka-into-recalling-defence-attache-brigadier-priyanka-fernando-from-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=57926","title":{"rendered":"LTTE Supporters In UK Succeed In  Getting Britain To  Pressures Sri Lanka Into Recalling Defence Attache Brigadier Priyanka Fernando  From London."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by Shamindra Ferdinando<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The government has, under heavy pressure from the UK, carried out its decision to recall Sri Lanka\u2019s military attache in London, Brig. Prinyanka Fernando, despite a presidential intervention. <\/p>\n<p>When the government announced its decision to recall the brigadier, following an incident where he allegedly made a throat slitting gesture in front of a group of British LTTE\u2008supporters of Sri\u2008Lankan origin, in London, on Feb. 04, President Sirisena, ordered that he be reinstated.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Sources said the UK had called for swift action again the military attache.<\/p>\n<p>The LTTE supporters protested near the Sri Lankan High Commission in London while Prince Edward and Sophie Wessex were in Colombo for Sri Lanka\u2019s 70th Independence Day celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>Brig. Fernando returned on Thursday (Feb. 22)<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:The Island<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton57926\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D57926&amp;text=LTTE%20Supporters%20In%20UK%20Succeed%20In%20%20Getting%20Britain%20To%20%20Pressures%20Sri%20Lanka%20Into%20Recalling%20Defence%20Attache...%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 Shamindra Ferdinando The government has, under heavy pressure from the UK, carried out its decision to recall Sri Lanka\u2019s military attache in London, Brig. Prinyanka Fernando, despite a presidential intervention. When the government announced its decision to recall the brigadier, following an incident where he allegedly made a throat slitting gesture in front of &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=57926\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;LTTE Supporters In UK Succeed In  Getting Britain To  Pressures Sri Lanka Into Recalling Defence Attache Brigadier Priyanka Fernando  From London.&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\/57926"}],"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=57926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57927,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57926\/revisions\/57927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}