{"id":4850,"date":"2018-12-19T07:51:05","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T07:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=4850"},"modified":"2018-12-19T07:51:05","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T07:51:05","slug":"former-ltte-cadre-and-head-of-cfd-summoned-by-tid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/former-ltte-cadre-and-head-of-cfd-summoned-by-tid\/","title":{"rendered":"Former LTTE cadre and head of CFD summoned by TID"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Terrorist Investigations Division (TID) has summoned former LTTE cadre and head of the Crusaders for Democracy (CFD) Ganeshalingam Chandralingam alias Thulasi to appear at the Colombo office tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Thulasi told the Colombo Gazette he was not aware of the reason for the summons issued to him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cI got notice two days ago to appear before the TID tomorrow (Wednesday). I was not told why I need to come,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Thulasi said he feared the summons was an attempt to intimidate former LTTE cadres who have entered the democratic stream.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Over the past few weeks several diplomats based in Colombo have been meeting Thulasi to discuss concerns over their security and the state of affairs in the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In an interview to a local newspaper on Sunday Thulasi had appealed to the public, to put the past behind and look to the future.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Thulasi had said that today over 40 former LTTE cadres were involved in politics.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Terrorist Investigations Division (TID) has summoned former LTTE cadre and head of the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4851,"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-4850","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\/4850","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=4850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}