{"id":6249,"date":"2019-05-08T19:35:29","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T19:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=6249"},"modified":"2019-05-08T19:35:29","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T19:35:29","slug":"fonseka-warns-terror-threat-still-not-eliminated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/fonseka-warns-terror-threat-still-not-eliminated\/","title":{"rendered":"Fonseka warns terror threat still not eliminated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Former Army Commander Sarath Fonseka yesterday warned in Parliament that he does not feel the threat posed by terrorism to Sri Lanka has been completely eliminated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Fonseka slammed the statement made by President Maithripala Sirisena in Parliament day before yesterday where he had claimed that the threat had been mostly eliminated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The former Army Commander said that more needs to be done to fully eliminate the threat.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He also said that information passed on to him showed that the threat from the Easter Sunday bombers has not been completely extinguished.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Fonseka said that the defence establishment must be strengthened to counter the threat.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Army Commander Sarath Fonseka yesterday warned in Parliament that he does not feel&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6250,"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-6249","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\/6249","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=6249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}