{"id":77468,"date":"2022-05-11T00:18:13","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T04:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=77468"},"modified":"2022-05-11T19:29:04","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T23:29:04","slug":"mahinda-rajapaksa-evacuated-from-temple-trees-to-trincomalee-the-former-pm-is-at-the-naval-dockyard-in-trincomalee-he-will-be-there-for-a-few-more-days-we-will-provide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=77468","title":{"rendered":"Mahinda Rajapaksa  Evacuated  From \u201cTemple Trees\u201d to Trincomalee;  \u201cThe former PM is at the Naval Dockyard in Trincomalee. He will be there for a few more days. We will provide him with whatever security he needs and for as long as he wants.\u201d Says Defence Secretary Gen Kamal  Gunaratne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By<\/p>\n<p>Meera Srinivasan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa was evacuated from Temple Trees, his official residence in Colombo, and taken to a naval base in the eastern port city of Trincomalee on May 10 for his \u201csecurity\u201d, according to Kamal Gunaratne, Secretary to the Defence Ministry. <\/p>\n<p>Addressing a media conference on May 11, he said: \u201cThe former PM is at the Naval Dockyard in Trincomalee. He will be there for a few more days. We will provide him with whatever security he needs and for as long as he wants.\u201d<br \/>\nAs violence intensified, the former Prime Minister was flown to Trincomalee, some 300 km north-east of capital Colombo, and home to Tamils, Muslims, and Sinhalese. He was not safe in the Sinhala-majority south, where he once commanded much respect and adoration. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>However, his son Namal Rajapaksa told AFP that his father \u201cwill not flee\u201d Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>Amid fears of military rule flagged by some past and present leaders, the Defence Ministry secretary, who was a controversial top field commander during the war, said: \u201cThere is no danger of a military coup in Sri Lanka. It is very difficult to do such a thing in this country. I say it with full responsibility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Army chief Shavendra Silva said troops in armoured personnel carriers were deployed across the island, including in Colombo, to contain violence. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are using Buffels (armoured cars) to carry our troops,\u201d he told reporters, on camouflaged military vehicles being spotted in the capital.<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nCourtesy:The Hindu<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton77468\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D77468&amp;text=Mahinda%20Rajapaksa%20%20Evacuated%20%20From%20%E2%80%9CTemple%20Trees%E2%80%9D%20to%20Trincomalee%3B%20%20%E2%80%9CThe%20former%20PM%20is%20at%20the%20Naval...%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 Meera Srinivasan Meanwhile, Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa was evacuated from Temple Trees, his official residence in Colombo, and taken to a naval base in the eastern port city of Trincomalee on May 10 for his \u201csecurity\u201d, according to Kamal Gunaratne, Secretary to the Defence Ministry. Addressing a media conference on May 11, he said: \u201cThe &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=77468\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Mahinda Rajapaksa  Evacuated  From \u201cTemple Trees\u201d to Trincomalee;  \u201cThe former PM is at the Naval Dockyard in Trincomalee. He will be there for a few more days. We will provide him with whatever security he needs and for as long as he wants.\u201d Says Defence Secretary Gen Kamal  Gunaratne&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\/77468"}],"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=77468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77469,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77468\/revisions\/77469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}