{"id":67047,"date":"2020-01-08T02:19:14","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T07:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=67047"},"modified":"2020-01-08T03:04:57","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T08:04:57","slug":"sarath-fonseka-criticises-president-gotabaya-rajapaksa-for-appointing-brig-suresh-sallay-as-state-intelligence-service-headbrigadier-suresh-sallay-is-a-muslim-how-can-a-muslim-be-appointed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=67047","title":{"rendered":"Sarath Fonseka Criticises President Gotabaya Rajapaksa for Appointing Brig. Suresh Sallay as State Intelligence Service Head:\u201cBrigadier Suresh Sallay is a Muslim. How can a Muslim be appointed as the SIS Head? We are fighting Islamic terrorism and there is conflict of interest here.\u201d Says Ex-Army Chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Former Army Commander and UNF MP Sarath Fonseka today criticized President Gotabaya Rajapaksa\u2019s decision to appoint Brigadier Suresh Sallay as head of the country\u2019s State Intelligence Service (SIS).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the parliamentary session today(7), Fonseka said that Sallay\u2019s ethnicity would affect his work as head of SIS.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBrigadier Suresh Sallay is a Muslim. How can a Muslim be appointed as the SIS Head? We are fighting Islamic terrorism and there is conflict of interest here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>President Rajapakse for the first time appointed a military officer to head the SIS.  Sallay is the former Head of Military Intelligence. SIS previously operated as part of the police department.<\/p>\n<p>Fonseka speaking further said a minimum of 10 years is required to bring the SIS to international standards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRajapakse says he has already restructured the SIS. A person with a sound understanding about national security will know that it takes a great deal of time, \u201d Fonseka pointed out.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:The Sunday Morning<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton67047\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D67047&amp;text=Sarath%20Fonseka%20Criticises%20President%20Gotabaya%20Rajapaksa%20for%20Appointing%20Brig.%20Suresh%20Sallay%20as%20State...%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 Army Commander and UNF MP Sarath Fonseka today criticized President Gotabaya Rajapaksa\u2019s decision to appoint Brigadier Suresh Sallay as head of the country\u2019s State Intelligence Service (SIS). Speaking at the parliamentary session today(7), Fonseka said that Sallay\u2019s ethnicity would affect his work as head of SIS. \u201cBrigadier Suresh Sallay is a Muslim. How can &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=67047\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Sarath Fonseka Criticises President Gotabaya Rajapaksa for Appointing Brig. Suresh Sallay as State Intelligence Service Head:\u201cBrigadier Suresh Sallay is a Muslim. How can a Muslim be appointed as the SIS Head? We are fighting Islamic terrorism and there is conflict of interest here.\u201d Says Ex-Army Chief&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\/67047"}],"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=67047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67048,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67047\/revisions\/67048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}