{"id":144058,"date":"2015-05-04T15:20:08","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T09:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=144058"},"modified":"2015-05-04T15:25:40","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T09:55:40","slug":"nirmal-attack-shows-fascist-group-hasnt-given-up-their-white-van-culture-lfd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/nirmal-attack-shows-fascist-group-hasnt-given-up-their-white-van-culture-lfd\/","title":{"rendered":"Nirmal Attack Shows Fascist Group Hasn&#8217;t Given Up Their White Van Culture: LfD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Lawyers for Democracy\u2019 has today condemned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/futa-demands-investigation-into-dons-attack\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">the physical attack<\/span><\/a> on Dr. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Nirmal+Ranjith+Devasiri&amp;x=13&amp;y=5\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Nirmal Ranjith Devasiri<\/span><\/a>, the former President of the Federation of University Teachers\u2019 Associations, when he was at the May day rally at Kirulapane organized by the group of parties supporting the former president Mahinda Rajapaksa.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_138329\" style=\"width: 257px\" 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=\"size-medium wp-image-138329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Nirmal-Ranjith-247x300.jpg\" alt=\"DR. Nirmal Ranjith Dewasiri\" width=\"247\" height=\"300\" 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: 247px) 100vw, 247px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-138329\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">DR. Nirmal Ranjith Dewasiri<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;This attack which is a blatant attack on democracy and the mandate given by the people in no uncertain terms at the last presidential election. The people voted against the fascist and racist politics of the last government and expressed the desire to be governed under a democratic system where rule of law and human rights are respected.&#8221; the LfD said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>LfD said; &#8220;This attack on Dr. Nirmal is an attack on the movement that brought about this change as Dr. Nirmal and FUTA led by him was in the forefront of the struggle for restoration of democratic rule. The attack by this fascist and racist group shows that though the white van has disappeared, but this group has not given up the white van culture which prevailed during the last few years and used by them to suppress the people by bringing fear into them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While we condemn this dastardly act it is an eye opener to civil society that the threat to democracy still exist as seen from the behavior of this group in Parliament to obstruct the passage of the 19th Amendment. It is the demonstration in Colombo on the 28th organized by the forces led by Rev. Maduluwawe Sobitha Thero that forced this group to retract from obstructing the passage of the 19th Amendment. Civil Society has to be vigilant to protect the peoples\u2019 victory of 8th January 2015.&#8221;<\/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":[3,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Nirmal Attack Shows Fascist Group Hasn&#039;t Given Up Their White Van Culture: LfD - 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\/nirmal-attack-shows-fascist-group-hasnt-given-up-their-white-van-culture-lfd\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nirmal Attack Shows Fascist Group Hasn&#039;t Given Up Their White Van Culture: LfD - Colombo Telegraph\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"[&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/nirmal-attack-shows-fascist-group-hasnt-given-up-their-white-van-culture-lfd\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Colombo Telegraph\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-05-04T09:50:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2015-05-04T09:55:40+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\/nirmal-attack-shows-fascist-group-hasnt-given-up-their-white-van-culture-lfd\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/nirmal-attack-shows-fascist-group-hasnt-given-up-their-white-van-culture-lfd\/\",\"name\":\"Nirmal Attack Shows Fascist Group Hasn't Given Up Their White Van Culture: LfD - Colombo Telegraph\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/nirmal-attack-shows-fascist-group-hasnt-given-up-their-white-van-culture-lfd\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/nirmal-attack-shows-fascist-group-hasnt-given-up-their-white-van-culture-lfd\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Nirmal-Ranjith.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-05-04T09:50:08+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-05-04T09:55:40+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/#\/schema\/person\/9db3d0cfcfa59e1997e3c3524d454cb3\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/nirmal-attack-shows-fascist-group-hasnt-given-up-their-white-van-culture-lfd\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/nirmal-attack-shows-fascist-group-hasnt-given-up-their-white-van-culture-lfd\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/nirmal-attack-shows-fascist-group-hasnt-given-up-their-white-van-culture-lfd\/#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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