{"id":141706,"date":"2015-03-26T01:46:32","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T20:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=141706"},"modified":"2015-04-03T00:12:18","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T18:42:18","slug":"sfs-promotion-is-a-symbolic-act-of-militarization-dr-dewasiri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sfs-promotion-is-a-symbolic-act-of-militarization-dr-dewasiri\/","title":{"rendered":"SF\u2019s Promotion Is A Symbolic Act Of Militarization: Dr. Dewasiri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Academic and social activist Dr. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Nirmal+Ranjith+Dewasiri&amp;x=9&amp;y=4\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Nirmal Ranjith Dewasiri<\/span><\/a> says the recently awarded Field Marshall title to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Sarath+Fonseka&amp;x=7&amp;y=5\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Sarath Fonseka<\/span><\/a> is a \u2018politically motivated move\u2019 and says it is a symbolic act of militarization.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_138329\" style=\"width: 176px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Nirmal-Ranjith.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-138329\" class=\"wp-image-138329 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Nirmal-Ranjith-247x300.jpg\" alt=\"DR. Nirmal Ranjith Dewasiri\" width=\"166\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Nirmal-Ranjith-247x300.jpg 247w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Nirmal-Ranjith.jpg 352w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 166px) 100vw, 166px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-138329\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">DR. Nirmal Ranjith Dewasiri<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Dr. Dewasiri points out although there is no doubt over the fact that Fonseka was subjected to great injustice under the Rajapaksa regime, the question however remains as to whether awarding this title was the best way to compensate for the injustice he faced.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose who are shedding tears for the \u2018injustices\u2019 allegedly faced by the Rajapaksa today under the present government, are behaving as though they are not aware of what happened to Fonseka following the 2010 Presidential election or to retired Chief Justice <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Shirani+Bandaranayake&amp;x=11&amp;y=3\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Shirani Bandaranayake<\/span><\/a>. The question, however, is whether this is the way to compensate for such injustice,\u201d he said while adding that he perceives this promotion as a symbolic act of militarization, which was one of the main criticisms against the Rajapaksa regime.<\/p>\n<p>He also said the move is problematic in the context of SF being a major political player in the present political scene and added that it is interesting to see how the Tamil community would perceive this move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":138329,"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-141706","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>SF\u2019s Promotion Is A Symbolic Act Of Militarization: Dr. Dewasiri - 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\/sfs-promotion-is-a-symbolic-act-of-militarization-dr-dewasiri\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"SF\u2019s Promotion Is A Symbolic Act Of Militarization: Dr. Dewasiri - Colombo Telegraph\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"[&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sfs-promotion-is-a-symbolic-act-of-militarization-dr-dewasiri\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Colombo Telegraph\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-03-25T20:16:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2015-04-02T18:42:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Nirmal-Ranjith.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"352\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"426\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"COLOMBO TELEGRAPH\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"COLOMBO TELEGRAPH\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sfs-promotion-is-a-symbolic-act-of-militarization-dr-dewasiri\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sfs-promotion-is-a-symbolic-act-of-militarization-dr-dewasiri\/\",\"name\":\"SF\u2019s Promotion Is A Symbolic Act Of Militarization: Dr. Dewasiri - Colombo Telegraph\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sfs-promotion-is-a-symbolic-act-of-militarization-dr-dewasiri\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sfs-promotion-is-a-symbolic-act-of-militarization-dr-dewasiri\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Nirmal-Ranjith.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-03-25T20:16:32+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-04-02T18:42:18+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/#\/schema\/person\/9db3d0cfcfa59e1997e3c3524d454cb3\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sfs-promotion-is-a-symbolic-act-of-militarization-dr-dewasiri\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sfs-promotion-is-a-symbolic-act-of-militarization-dr-dewasiri\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sfs-promotion-is-a-symbolic-act-of-militarization-dr-dewasiri\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Nirmal-Ranjith.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Nirmal-Ranjith.jpg\",\"width\":352,\"height\":426,\"caption\":\"DR. 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