{"id":1672,"date":"2017-07-26T03:22:17","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T03:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=1672"},"modified":"2017-07-26T03:22:17","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T03:22:17","slug":"indo-lanka-accord-hailed-as-helping-defeat-prabakaran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/indo-lanka-accord-hailed-as-helping-defeat-prabakaran\/","title":{"rendered":"Indo-Lanka accord hailed as helping defeat Prabakaran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The 1987 agreement between India and Sri Lanka helped defeat the LTTE led by Vellupillai Prabakaran, Minister of Plantation Industries Navin Dissanayake said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Dissanayake said that when the Indo-Lanka accord was signed at the time his father, Gamini Dissanayake, was a Minister in the United National Party (UNP) Government, the Sri Lanka Freedom Party opposed it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He says if the agreement was not signed India would not have supported Sri Lanka to defeat Vellupillai Prabakaran.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cAfter 1987 India did not oppose Sri Lanka\u2019s moves to defeat Prabakaran,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Minister said that if India had helped Prabakaran, terrorism in Sri Lanka would have been worse that what it was.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 1987 agreement between India and Sri Lanka helped defeat the LTTE led by&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-srilankan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}