{"id":1843,"date":"2017-09-10T14:45:34","date_gmt":"2017-09-10T14:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=1843"},"modified":"2017-09-10T14:45:34","modified_gmt":"2017-09-10T14:45:34","slug":"all-tamils-in-north-are-not-terrorists-asserts-wigneswaran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/all-tamils-in-north-are-not-terrorists-asserts-wigneswaran\/","title":{"rendered":"All Tamils in North are not terrorists asserts Wigneswaran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Northern Province Chief Minister C V Wigneswaran asserted that all Tamils in the North are not terrorists<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He says some people in the South have got the wrong impression about the people in the North.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Wigneswaran said he discussed this matter with the Chief Prelates in Kandy when he visited them yesterday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He also invited the Chief Prelates to visit the North and see for themselves the issues faced by the people there.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cCalling for a federal system is not a move to divide the country. We have no intention of dividing the country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Wigneswaran said that some media in the South give the wrong image of what is taking place in the North or what is being said in the North.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Chief Minister said that people in the North have no objections to Buddhist statues being placed in the North but it must be done legally.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He said the Tamils do not oppose Buddhist statues being placed in the North but the issue is some do it illegally, like placing it near a Hindu Temple, just to create a conflict.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Wigneswaran also said that the allegations against former Army Commander Jagath Jayasuriya related to the war must be investigated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northern Province Chief Minister C V Wigneswaran asserted that all Tamils in the North&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1844,"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-1843","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\/1843","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=1843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}