{"id":3516,"date":"2018-07-22T06:17:44","date_gmt":"2018-07-22T06:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=3516"},"modified":"2018-07-22T06:17:44","modified_gmt":"2018-07-22T06:17:44","slug":"malaysian-politician-rejects-allegations-linking-him-to-the-ltte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/malaysian-politician-rejects-allegations-linking-him-to-the-ltte\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysian politician rejects allegations linking him to the LTTE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Malaysia\u2019s Penang Deputy Chief Minister II Dr P Ramasamy has brushed aside allegations linking him to the terrorist group, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), the Star reported.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The allegations surfaced after a photo of him and pro-LTTE politician V. Gopalasamy was circulated online.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Dr Ramasamy explained that he was invited to be a peace consultant between the Sri Lankan Government and LTTE back in 2003 when he was a professor at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia in the field of Political Economics and Interna\u00adtional Conflicts Management.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cAt the same time, I was also part of the constitutional affairs committee which was tasked with formulating a peace solution.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Dr Ramasamy said it was illogical to link him to a terrorist group which was destroyed in May 2009, calling it an \u201cextraordinary imagination\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cYou can make thousands of reports against me, but make sure they have basis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cI\u2019ll leave it to the police to investigate the matter,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysia\u2019s Penang Deputy Chief Minister II Dr P Ramasamy has brushed aside allegations linking&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3516","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=3516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}