{"id":7156,"date":"2019-09-05T04:12:09","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T04:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=7156"},"modified":"2019-09-05T04:12:09","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T04:12:09","slug":"mr-claims-cid-focusing-on-gota-and-not-easter-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/mr-claims-cid-focusing-on-gota-and-not-easter-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"MR claims CID focusing on Gota and not Easter attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Former President and Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapaksa today claimed that the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) is focusing its attention on former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa and not the Easter attacks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Speaking at an event yesterday, Rajapaksa said that the CID is investigating false allegations over Gotabaya Rajapaksa\u2019s passport.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">However he says the CID is not focused on the investigations over the deadly attacks on Easter Sunday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He said that the Government is determined on taking revenge on members of the former Government.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The former President noted that following the defeat of the LTTE the country enjoyed peace and freedom but that peace was shattered on Easter Sunday this year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He said that no one in the Government is taking responsibility for the attacks but are instead pointing fingers at each other.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the Presidential candidate of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) was also present at the event.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President and Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapaksa today claimed that the Criminal Investigations Department&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7157,"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-7156","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\/7156","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=7156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}