{"id":73325,"date":"2021-06-24T15:24:53","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T20:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=73325"},"modified":"2021-06-24T15:24:53","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T20:24:53","slug":"the-killer-has-been-set-free-the-sun-will-not-shine-on-a-country-that-does-not-respect-justice-says-slain-ex-mp-bharatha-lakshman-premachandras-widow-sumana-after-dumind-silvas-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=73325","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The killer has been set free. The sun will not shine on a country that does not respect justice.&#8221; Says Slain Ex-MP Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra&#8217;s Widow Sumana After Dumind Silva&#8217;s Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By<\/p>\n<p>JAMILA HUSAIN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Widow of former parliamentarian Bharatha Premchandra today vented her anger on social media after the release of Duminda Silva who received a presidential pardon.<\/p>\n<p>Sumana Premachandra stronngly condemned the government&#8217;s decision to release Silva who was convicted in 2016 over the murder of Bharatha Premachandra and sentenced to life in prison. <\/p>\n<p>She said, &#8220;The killer has been set free. The sun will not shine on a country that does not respect justice.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Sumana further said that Sri Lanka had transformed into a country that does not respect the judiciary by disrespecting the verdicts of the High Court and Supreme Court judges.<\/p>\n<p>She said this injustice had taken place on the most auspicious day of &#8216;Poson Poya&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Silva left the Welikada Prison a short while ago using the back entrance clearly to avoid the large media entourage which was awaiting his release in the front entrance of the prison. <\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:Daily Mirror<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton73325\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D73325&amp;text=%26%238220%3BThe%20killer%20has%20been%20set%20free.%20The%20sun%20will%20not%20shine%20on%20a%20country%20that%20does%20not%20respect%20justice.%26%238221%3B...%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 JAMILA HUSAIN Widow of former parliamentarian Bharatha Premchandra today vented her anger on social media after the release of Duminda Silva who received a presidential pardon. Sumana Premachandra stronngly condemned the government&#8217;s decision to release Silva who was convicted in 2016 over the murder of Bharatha Premachandra and sentenced to life in prison. She &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=73325\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;&#8220;The killer has been set free. The sun will not shine on a country that does not respect justice.&#8221; Says Slain Ex-MP Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra&#8217;s Widow Sumana After Dumind Silva&#8217;s Release&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\/73325"}],"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=73325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73326,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73325\/revisions\/73326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}