{"id":130961,"date":"2014-09-29T11:55:08","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T06:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=130961"},"modified":"2014-10-08T12:12:17","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T06:42:17","slug":"high-commissioner-nonis-quits-after-assault-by-sajin-vaas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/high-commissioner-nonis-quits-after-assault-by-sajin-vaas\/","title":{"rendered":"High Commissioner Nonis Quits After Assault By Sajin Vass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka High Commissioner in United Kingdom, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Chris+Nonis&amp;x=8&amp;y=2\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Chris Nonis<\/span><\/a> has resigned after he was assaulted mercilessly by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=sajin+vass+gunawardena&amp;x=13&amp;y=5\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Sajin Vass Gunawardena<\/span><\/a>, the Monitoring MP for the Ministry of External Affairs at a house in New York.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Chris-Nonis.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-85321\" alt=\"Chris Nonis\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Chris-Nonis-223x300.jpg\" width=\"223\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Chris-Nonis-223x300.jpg 223w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Chris-Nonis.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/><\/a>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Mahinda+Rajapaksa&amp;x=10&amp;y=5\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Mahinda Rajapaksa<\/span><\/a>, who returned to Colombo from New York, after attending the UN has ordered the state and private media to blackout the news and not report anything on this matter. He personally spoke to everyone concerned.<\/p>\n<p>The incident took place at the house of Dilan Ariyawansa, who is now Director of Sri Lankan Airlines in New York. He has thrown a dinner for many members of Rajapaksa\u2019s team taking part in UN General Assembly. Ariyawansa was originally sent to New York as an employee-manager of Sri Lanka Travel Inc. in 2000 by Lalith Kotelawala and was involved in many controversies.<\/p>\n<p>One of the persons who took part in the dinner told the Colombo Telegraph that among those who took part in the dinner were Nonis, Foreign Secretary <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Kshenuka+Senewiratne&amp;x=11&amp;y=2\">Kshenuka Senewiratne<\/a><\/span>\u00a0and Sajin Vass Gunawardena.<\/p>\n<p>In a highly intoxicated state, Gunawardena MP has got involved in an argument with Nonis. He called him a \u201cbloody pariah\u201d and accused him of using the words \u201cfucking bitch on Kshenuka Seneviratne.\u201d He has raised his hands and given Nonis a thundering slap forcing him to fall on the ground. Thereafter, Gunawardena has continued to kick High Commissioner Nonis. His toe was hurt because of this and he was walking with a bandage.<\/p>\n<p>Nonis did not sit for the string hopper, chicken curry and seeni sambol dinner. He drew to the five star New York Hotel Rajapaksa stayed and gave his resignation. The next morning he took a flight from New York to London.<\/p>\n<p>Nonis complained to a member of the Sri Lanka delegation Rajapaksa will not take any action against Gunawardena. He had revealed Rajapaksa told him I will deal with the fellow but nothing will happen, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":85321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,6969,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130961","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 v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>High Commissioner Nonis Quits After Assault By Sajin Vass - Colombo Telegraph<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/high-commissioner-nonis-quits-after-assault-by-sajin-vaas\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"High Commissioner Nonis Quits After Assault By Sajin Vass - 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