{"id":100049,"date":"2013-08-13T00:38:45","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T19:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=100049"},"modified":"2013-08-19T00:21:33","modified_gmt":"2013-08-18T18:51:33","slug":"kadirs-land-grabber-unveils-his-statue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/kadirs-land-grabber-unveils-his-statue\/","title":{"rendered":"Kadir\u2019s Land Grabber Unveils His Statue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The President Mahinda Rajapaksa \u00a0unveiled\u00a0a statue of the former Foreign Minister the late Lakshman Kadirgamar at the Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute for International Relations and Strategic Studies in Colombo yesterday (August 12).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/kadirs-land-grabber-unveils-his-statue\/kadir-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-100056\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-100056\" title=\"Kadir\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Kadir1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"185\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a>The unveiling ceremony had been organized to co-inside with Kadirgamar&#8217;s eighth death anniversary. Last week the son of assassinated Foreign Minister\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Lakshman+Kadirgamar&amp;x=7&amp;y=4\">Lakshman Kadirgamar<\/a><\/span>\u00a0has <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/takeover-of-lakshman-kadirgamars-land-court-issues-notice-on-lands-minister\/\">filed legal action<\/a><\/span> against\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">Rajapaksa regime\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">moves to acquire his ancestral property in Maviddapuram in the Jaffna peninsula.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The former Minister who inherited the land from his mother, was a strong critic of the LTTE and considered Sri Lanka\u2019s best foreign minister of all time. Minister Kadirgamar\u2019s brothers have also extended yeoman service to Sri Lanka, as military officers of rank and eminent lawyers.<\/p>\n<p>His son\u2019s petition against the Rajapaksa regime&#8217;s acquisition of his personal property puts the eminently respected Minister\u2019s family front and centre of an ongoing struggle for land rights in the formerly embattled Jaffna peninsula.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/kadirs-land-grabber-unveils-his-statue\/kadiragamar-statue\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-100050\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-100050\" title=\"Kadiragamar statue\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Kadiragamar-statue.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"383\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Kadiragamar-statue.jpg 383w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Kadiragamar-statue-176x300.jpg 176w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 383px) 100vw, 383px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/kadirs-land-grabber-unveils-his-statue\/kadir\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-100051\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-100051\" title=\"Kadir\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Kadir.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Kadir.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Kadir-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":100056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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