{"id":156575,"date":"2016-01-31T00:04:25","date_gmt":"2016-01-30T18:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=156575"},"modified":"2016-02-01T02:05:35","modified_gmt":"2016-01-31T20:35:35","slug":"you-can-arrest-us-but-you-cannot-wipe-us-out-mahinda-rajapaksa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/you-can-arrest-us-but-you-cannot-wipe-us-out-mahinda-rajapaksa\/","title":{"rendered":"You Can Arrest Us, But You Cannot Wipe Us Out \u2013 Mahinda Rajapaksa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa proclaimed that even if his entire family was arrested, including himself, no one can wipe out the history created by the Rajapaksa\u2019s since 1936.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/you-can-arrest-us-but-you-cannot-wipe-us-out-mahinda-rajapaksa\/mahinda-on-yoshitha\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-156576\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-156576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Mahinda-on-Yoshitha.jpg\" alt=\"Mahinda on Yoshitha\" width=\"639\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Mahinda-on-Yoshitha.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Mahinda-on-Yoshitha-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Mahinda-on-Yoshitha-800x558.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/><\/a>In a picture message uploaded on his official Facebook page just minutes after his son,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/gotabaya-rajapaksa-wants-to-end-tyrant-regime-and-bring-back-peace\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> Yoshitha was remanded for allegedly committing financial irregularities at the Carlton Sports Network<\/span><\/a>, Rajapaksa said, \u201cArrest my entire family, and if that is not enough arrest me, but the temper of steel history left by the Rajapaksa\u2019s since 1936 cannot be wiped out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The picture message depicted Rajapaksa feeding his now remanded son, Yoshitha cake during a birthday.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate post, also on his Facebook page, Rajapaksa said that it is the parents who suffer the most when misfortune befalls a child.<\/p>\n<p>Namal, Rajapaksa\u2019s eldest son in a picture post uploaded on his Facebook and Twitter pages which showed Mahinda Rajapaksa in tears soon after the court verdict, said; \u201cThe man who wiped off the tears of an entire country, is today in tears.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Namal Rajapaksa added that the parents\u2019 love for their children can only be understood by parents. \u201cIt\u2019s difficult seeing our parents this way,\u201d he said in a tweet.\u00a0<strong><em>(By Munza Mushtaq\u00a0\u00a9 CT )<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/you-can-arrest-us-but-you-cannot-wipe-us-out-mahinda-rajapaksa\/mahinda-on-yoshitha-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-156578\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-156578 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Mahinda-on-Yoshitha1.jpg\" alt=\"Mahinda on Yoshitha\" width=\"502\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Mahinda-on-Yoshitha1.jpg 502w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Mahinda-on-Yoshitha1-251x300.jpg 251w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 502px) 100vw, 502px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":156576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2186,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-featured-news","category-news","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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