{"id":6360,"date":"2019-05-20T05:38:17","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T05:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=6360"},"modified":"2019-05-20T05:38:17","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T05:38:17","slug":"president-recalls-even-ipkf-could-not-defeat-ltte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/president-recalls-even-ipkf-could-not-defeat-ltte\/","title":{"rendered":"President recalls even IPKF could not defeat LTTE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">President Maithripala Sirisena today recalled that even Indian troops could not defeat the LTTE during the war.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He said that over 100,000 Indian Peacekeeping Force (IPKF) troops had been sent to Sri Lanka during the war on a request made by Sri Lanka yet the foreign troops could not help defeat the LTTE.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The IPKF was in Sri Lanka from 1987 to 1990 and withdrew from Sri Lanka in 1990.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Eventually, the President noted, it was the Sri Lankan military which defeated the LTTE and ended the 30 year war.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The President expressed these views while speaking at a National event held to mark 10 years since the end of the war at the National War Memorial near the Parliament complex.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Speaking further, the President said that the defeat of the LTTE was welcomed by all and the focus later shifted to developing the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">However, he said that unexpectedly terror struck Sri Lanka in April this year resulting in around 300 people being killed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The President said that the Sri Lankan military and Police are now focused on defeating the new threat faced by Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He said that all those involved in the Easter Sunday attacks have either been killed or arrested.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">However, he said no one can control the spread of religious extremism so Sri Lanka needs to work with the international community to defeat what is an international threat.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Maithripala Sirisena today recalled that even Indian troops could not defeat the LTTE&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6361,"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-6360","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\/6360","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=6360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}