{"id":156828,"date":"2016-02-03T14:00:50","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T08:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=156828"},"modified":"2016-02-04T13:55:56","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T08:25:56","slug":"mahinda-now-says-foreign-funded-ngos-behind-yoshithas-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/mahinda-now-says-foreign-funded-ngos-behind-yoshithas-arrest\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahinda Now Says Foreign Funded NGOs Behind Yoshitha\u2019s Arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Mahinda+Rajapaksa&amp;x=9&amp;y=1\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Mahinda Rajapaksa<\/span><\/a> today claimed that several foreign funded NGOs were behind the arrest of his second son, Yoshitha, along with several others.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_136324\" style=\"width: 376px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/electoral-authoritarianism-and-fraudulent-elections\/mahinda-pic-sudath-silva-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-136324\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-136324\" class=\"wp-image-136324 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Mahinda-pic-Sudath-Silva1.jpg\" alt=\"Mahinda Rajapaksa\" width=\"366\" height=\"484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Mahinda-pic-Sudath-Silva1.jpg 366w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Mahinda-pic-Sudath-Silva1-226x300.jpg 226w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 366px) 100vw, 366px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-136324\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mahinda Rajapaksa<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In a statement issued to commemorate the national independence day of Sri Lanka that falls tomorrow, Rajapaksa said; \u201cIt was reported in the press that the leaders of several\u00a0foreign funded NGOs had met leaders of the present government and insisted on the arrest of members of my government on corruption charges before the 4th of February this year. It is not surprising that such agents of foreign powers would see some symbolic value in jailing members of a government that won the war against terrorism before Independence Day. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Yoshitha+Rajapaksa&amp;x=12&amp;y=4\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">My son Yoshitha<\/span><\/a>, my Press Secretary Rohan Welivita, Nishantha Ranatunga and two directors of the CSN TV Channel Ravinath Fernando and Kavishan Dissanayake have been arrested under an omnibus provision in the Criminal Procedure Code enabling the police to arrest individuals to conduct investigations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He further noted that as Sri Lanka marks the 68th year of independence from foreign powers, \u201cI wish to pledge before the people of Sri Lanka that even if my entire family and I myself am imprisoned, I will not deviate from the path of reasserting our national independence, ensuring the territorial integrity of our motherland, restarting the stalled process of economic development and re-establishing our national self respect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While elaborating on the war that was won in May 2009 against the separatists, Rajapaksa noted that due to the actions of certain conspiratorial forces, even this respite was short-lived.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince 8 January 2015, we are once again being used by foreign powers for their purposes. The separatists who could not achieve their aims after nearly four decades of terrorism, now hope to achieve their aim with the help of these foreign powers. Since last year there has been an unending procession of foreign dignitaries visiting their latest \u2018conquest\u2019. Due to the influence of these foreign powers, dangerous LTTE detainees have been released and members of the armed forces have been arrested under the Prevention of Terrorism Act. Furthermore, plans are afoot to prosecute our war heroes for war crimes,\u201d he said in the statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":136324,"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-156828","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>Mahinda Now Says Foreign Funded NGOs Behind Yoshitha\u2019s Arrest - 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\/mahinda-now-says-foreign-funded-ngos-behind-yoshithas-arrest\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mahinda Now Says Foreign Funded NGOs Behind Yoshitha\u2019s Arrest - 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