{"id":232,"date":"2016-10-30T10:24:27","date_gmt":"2016-10-30T10:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=232"},"modified":"2016-10-30T10:24:27","modified_gmt":"2016-10-30T10:24:27","slug":"war-history-should-be-added-to-syllabus-mr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/war-history-should-be-added-to-syllabus-mr\/","title":{"rendered":"War history should be added to syllabus: MR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Books written on war history such as \u2018War Heroes Killed in Action\u2019 by Retd. General Gerry De Silva and \u2018Road to Nandikadal\u2019 by Major General Kamal Gunaratne should be named as recommended books for the school syllabi, former president Mahinda Rajapaksa said.<\/p>\n<p>He said this while delivering a speech at the book launch of \u2018War Heroes Killed in Action\u2019 which was held at the BMICH last evening.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Rajapaksa said commitments, sufferings, travails and tribulations of Sri Lankan tri-forces during the war should be transcribed to literature in order to commemorate the war heroes at a time when they are being discriminated.<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy: Daily Mirror<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Books written on war history such as \u2018War Heroes Killed in Action\u2019 by Retd.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":233,"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-232","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\/232","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=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}