{"id":136953,"date":"2015-01-13T20:55:23","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T15:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=136953"},"modified":"2015-01-19T21:15:04","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T15:45:04","slug":"ive-received-death-threats-udaya-gammanpila","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/ive-received-death-threats-udaya-gammanpila\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve Received Death Threats: Udaya Gammanpila"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former front-liner of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=JHU&amp;x=11&amp;y=5\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Jathika Hela Urumaya<\/span><\/a> and founder of the Pivithuru Hela Urumaya (PHU), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Udaya+Gammanpila&amp;x=6&amp;y=13\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Udaya Gammanpila<\/span><\/a> today said that he has received death threats to leave the country.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_103071\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Udaya-Gammanpila.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-103071\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-103071\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Udaya-Gammanpila-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Udaya Gammanpila\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Udaya-Gammanpila-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Udaya-Gammanpila-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-103071\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Udaya Gammanpila<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Speaking at a media breifing, Gammanpila said that his wife has received death threats from anonymous callers who have said that he and his two children will be killed if they do not migrate.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, at the press conference he also had a racist take on the victory of the newly elected President Maithripala Sirisena, claiming he is the &#8216;first President to not receive the majority of the majority community. . .&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>He went on to state that they would offer their support to implement Sirisena&#8217;s 100-day program but added that in the meantime, they will be working towards establishing a &#8216;patriotic government&#8217; in Sri Lanka in another 97 days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":103071,"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-136953","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 - 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