{"id":59627,"date":"2018-06-20T21:18:33","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T02:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=59627"},"modified":"2018-06-20T22:17:08","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T03:17:08","slug":"anunayake-of-asgiriya-chapter-ven-vendaruwe-upali-thera-advises-gotabhaya-rajapaksa-to-launch-military-rule-like-adolf-hitler-and-build-up-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=59627","title":{"rendered":"Anunayake of Asgiriya Chapter  Ven Vendaruwe Upali Thera Advises Gotabhaya Rajapaksa To Launch Military Rule Like Adolf Hitler and Build Up The Country."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A senior Buddhist monk yesterday advised former Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa to launch into a military rule &#8216;like Hitler&#8217;. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The monk, Ven  Vendaruwe Upali thera, made this remark while speaking at a religious ceremony to mark the birthday of the former Defence Secretary. <\/p>\n<p>He is an Anunayake of the Asgiriya Chapter, in Kandy. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What I have to say is that you must take lead in building this country up. Launch into a military rule like Hitler and revive this country,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p>The monk&#8217;s remarks came under severe criticism on social media yesterday as many opined that it was an open invitation for a violent rule. <\/p>\n<p>Former German ruler Adolf Hitler was directly responsible for killings of hundreds of thousands of jews during his rule in Nazi Germany.<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nCourtesy:Asian Mirror<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton59627\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D59627&amp;text=Anunayake%20of%20Asgiriya%20Chapter%20%20Ven%20Vendaruwe%20Upali%20Thera%20Advises%20Gotabhaya%20Rajapaksa%20To%20Launch%20Military%20Rule...%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>A senior Buddhist monk yesterday advised former Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa to launch into a military rule &#8216;like Hitler&#8217;. The monk, Ven Vendaruwe Upali thera, made this remark while speaking at a religious ceremony to mark the birthday of the former Defence Secretary. He is an Anunayake of the Asgiriya Chapter, in Kandy.<\/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\/59627"}],"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=59627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59628,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59627\/revisions\/59628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}