{"id":3238,"date":"2018-05-30T03:52:32","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T03:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=3238"},"modified":"2018-05-30T03:52:32","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T03:52:32","slug":"northern-province-minister-refuses-to-accept-summons-by-tid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/northern-province-minister-refuses-to-accept-summons-by-tid\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Province Minister refuses to accept summons by TID"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Northern Province Minister of Education Dr K Sarveswaran has refused to accept a summons issued on him by the Police Terrorism Investigations Department (TID).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Sarveswaran had been issued the summons yesterday to appear before the TID on June 5th to record a statement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">However Sarveswaran says he had refused to accept the summons as his name did not appear on the notice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Sarveswaran had recently called on schools in the North to fly the Northern Provincial Council (NPC) flag at half-mast on May 18 as a mark of respect to the Tamils killed during the war.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He had said in a statement that the Tamils have been fighting for their rights for 70 years, both diplomatically and through war.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Sarveswaran had said that in May 2009 the international community was misled to believe the armed struggle for Tamil rights was terrorism and they supported the end of the war.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northern Province Minister of Education Dr K Sarveswaran has refused to accept a summons&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3239,"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-3238","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\/3238","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=3238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}