{"id":116606,"date":"2013-12-12T00:25:20","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T18:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=116606"},"modified":"2013-12-21T22:07:18","modified_gmt":"2013-12-21T16:37:18","slug":"red-flag-about-war-crimes-inquiry-from-archbishop-of-colombo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/red-flag-about-war-crimes-inquiry-from-archbishop-of-colombo\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Flag About War Crimes Inquiry From Archbishop Of Colombo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Archbishop of Colombo Cardinal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Malcolm+Ranjith&amp;x=8&amp;y=6\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Malcolm Ranjith<\/span><\/a> yesterday warned the Government that foreign intervention would be inevitable unless serious allegations of rights abuses and the work of reconciliation is addressed within the country.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_64685\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Malcom-Cardinal-Ranjith.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-64685\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-64685 lazyload\" alt=\"Archbishop Dr. Malcom Cardinal Ranjith\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Malcom-Cardinal-Ranjith-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Malcom-Cardinal-Ranjith-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Malcom-Cardinal-Ranjith-50x50.jpg 50w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 150px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 150\/150;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-64685\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Archbishop Dr. Malcom Cardinal Ranjith<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Issuing a pastoral letter yesterday, the Cardinal urged President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Mahinda+Rajapaksa&amp;x=11&amp;y=3\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Mahinda Rajapaksa<\/span><\/a> and the Tamil National Alliance to work towards finding a long term political solution to the ethnic conflict.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Foreigners should not tell us what to do. 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But if we do not resolve these issues, then we open ourselves to foreign intervention,&#8221; the Cardinal said.<\/p>\n<p>In his pastoral letter, the Cardinal warned that an international inquiry into war crimes could pose a serious threat to the country&#8217;s sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p>In its 24-page letter, the church also asked the government to ensure accountability for politically-motivated killings going back four decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":64685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,6969,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-popular-stories","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - 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