{"id":114985,"date":"2013-11-16T03:29:37","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T21:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=114985"},"modified":"2013-11-20T04:31:40","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T23:01:40","slug":"who-is-mahinda-rajapaksa-hero-or-war-criminal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/who-is-mahinda-rajapaksa-hero-or-war-criminal\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Is Mahinda Rajapaksa? Hero Or War Criminal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Who is Mahinda Rajapaksa? Hero or war criminal? Sri Lankan leader stands accused<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa was once a human rights activist, campaigning with the mothers of the \u201cdisappeared\u201d. Now, he is accused of presiding over war crimes and crimes against humanity, and his government actively prevents the families of the \u201cdisappeared\u201d from protesting.<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/asia\/hero-or-war-criminal-sri-lankan-leader-mahinda-rajapaksa-under-pressure-8940591.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">more<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/MR-Sudath-Silva.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-114986\" alt=\"MR Sudath Silva\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/MR-Sudath-Silva.jpg\" width=\"605\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/MR-Sudath-Silva.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/MR-Sudath-Silva-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/MR-Sudath-Silva-800x600.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 605px) 100vw, 605px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":114986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,3402],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-editors-choice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Who Is Mahinda Rajapaksa? 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