{"id":102816,"date":"2013-08-30T16:29:35","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T10:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=102816"},"modified":"2013-09-04T01:48:12","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T20:18:12","slug":"sri-lankan-military-does-pr-for-pillay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sri-lankan-military-does-pr-for-pillay\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan Military Does PR For Pillay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sri Lanka Army has urged the country&#8217;s press corps to to secure invitations to the press briefing by visiting UN Human Rights Envoy <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"ttps:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Navi+Pillay&amp;x=7&amp;y=7\">Navanethem Pillay<\/a><\/span> and report the &#8220;true facts&#8221; to the public.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_102817\" style=\"width: 144px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sri-lankan-military-does-pr-for-pillay\/ruwan-wanigasooriya\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-102817\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-102817\" class=\"size-full wp-image-102817\" title=\"Ruwan Wanigasooriya\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Ruwan-Wanigasooriya.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"134\" height=\"125\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-102817\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ruwan Wanigasooriya<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In a special email dispatch to local journalists and Colombo based international correspondents Military Spokesman Brigadier Ruwan Wanigasooriya informed media personnel about the time of the event and said &#8220;the whole country\/world is waiting for feedback on her visit&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am sure you will exercise your right to media freedom and attend this event and report true facts to the public as the whole country is keenly awaiting to know the outcome of this visit&#8221; the email from the military spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>Following is the full text:<\/p>\n<p>Dear Friends,<br \/>\nThe Human Rights Commissioner who is concluding her visit\u00a0tomorrow\u00a0is scheduled to have a press conference at 1100 hrs at the UN Office, Colombo.\u00a0 Its on invitation and hope you have secured your invitation.\u00a0 Please contact relevant authorities at the UN Office Colombo and secure your press invitation to this all important event as the whole country\/world is waiting for a feed back on her visit.\u00a0 I am sure you will exercise your right to media freedom and attend this event and report true facts to the public as the whole country is keenly awaiting to know the outcome of this visit.<\/p>\n<p>Best Regards,<br \/>\nBrigadier Ruwan Wanigasooriya<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">Military Spokesman\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Tel:<a href=\"tel:%2B94%2011%202686915\" target=\"_blank\">+94 11 2686915<\/a>,\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"tel:%2B94%2011%202325332\" target=\"_blank\">+94 11 2325332<\/a><br \/>\nFax:\u00a0<a href=\"tel:%2B94%2011%202430163\" target=\"_blank\">+94 11 2430163<\/a>\u00a0Mob:\u00a0<a href=\"tel:%2B94%20773082585\" target=\"_blank\">+94 773082585<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":102817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2187,1,6969,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-most-popular","category-news","category-popular-stories","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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