{"id":3371,"date":"2018-06-22T07:39:59","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T07:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=3371"},"modified":"2018-06-22T07:39:59","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T07:39:59","slug":"anunayake-of-asgiriya-chapter-ven-vendaruwe-upali-thera-advises-gotabhaya-rajapaksa-to-launch-military-rule-like-adolf-hitler-and-build-up-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/anunayake-of-asgiriya-chapter-ven-vendaruwe-upali-thera-advises-gotabhaya-rajapaksa-to-launch-military-rule-like-adolf-hitler-and-build-up-the-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Anunayake of Asgiriya Chapter Ven Vendaruwe Upali Thera advises Gotabhaya Rajapaksa to launch military rule like Adolf Hitler and build up the country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">A senior Buddhist monk yesterday advised former Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa to launch into a military rule \u2018like Hitler\u2019.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The monk, Ven Vendaruwe Upali thera, made this remark while speaking at a religious ceremony to mark the birthday of the former Defence Secretary.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He is an Anunayake of the Asgiriya Chapter, in Kandy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cWhat I have to say is that you must take lead in building this country up. Launch into a military rule like Hitler and revive this country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The monk\u2019s remarks came under severe criticism on social media yesterday as many opined that it was an open invitation for a violent rule.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Former German ruler Adolf Hitler was directly responsible for killings of hundreds of thousands of jews during his rule in Nazi Germany.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Asian Mirror<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A senior Buddhist monk yesterday advised former Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa to launch into&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3372,"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-3371","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\/3371","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=3371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}