{"id":2081,"date":"2017-11-21T01:58:13","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T01:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=2081"},"modified":"2017-11-21T01:58:13","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T01:58:13","slug":"bodu-bala-sena-gen-secy-gnanasara-thero-accosts-island-political-correspondent-chandraprema-at-a-funeral-and-threatens-him-saying-he-can-box-his-ears-mata-puluwan-thamusage-kana-pal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/bodu-bala-sena-gen-secy-gnanasara-thero-accosts-island-political-correspondent-chandraprema-at-a-funeral-and-threatens-him-saying-he-can-box-his-ears-mata-puluwan-thamusage-kana-pal\/","title":{"rendered":"Bodu Bala Sena Gen Secy Gnanasara Thero accosts Island Political Correspondent Chandraprema at a funeral and threatens him Saying \u201cHe can box his ears\u201d (Mata puluwan thamusage kana palanna)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Island political correspondent, C.A. Chandraprema, was threatened yesterday by Galagodaatte Gnanasara Thera while the former was at the funeral of Ven. Medagoda Abhayatissa Thera\u2019s mother in Narammala.After paying his last respects to the remains of the monk\u2019s mother.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Chandraprema was speaking with a Nayake Thera when Gnansara Thera accosted him, demanding to know whether he was Chandraprema. When Chandraprema answered in the affirmative, Gnanasara Thera pitched into him, saying \u201cthamusege mama kana palanawa\u201d (I\u2019m going to box your ears).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Thereupon, Chandraprema told Gnansara Thera that it was Ven. Abhayatissa\u2019s mother\u2019s funeral and if there was anything to be discussed that should be done outside the premises, but Gnanasara Thera kept telling Chandraprema \u201cMama dannawa thamusege Kolapata Samajaya gena \u2026 mata puluwan thamusege kana palanna.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Some senior monks intervened and sent Chandraprema away. Chandraprema who counts over three decades in journalism says that he has never been threatened by any politician or anyone else in that manner.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: The Island<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Island political correspondent, C.A. Chandraprema, was threatened yesterday by Galagodaatte Gnanasara Thera while&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2082,"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-2081","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\/2081","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=2081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}