{"id":159555,"date":"2016-03-22T14:09:20","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T08:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=159555"},"modified":"2016-03-22T14:09:20","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T08:39:20","slug":"gotabaya-offers-to-rescue-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/gotabaya-offers-to-rescue-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Gotabaya Offers To Rescue Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s controversial former secretary to the ministry of defence <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Gotabaya+Rajapaksa&amp;x=13&amp;y=3\">Gotabaya Rajapaksa<\/a><\/span> has come forward to help rescue the country from its current administration.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_146416\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/threat-to-national-security\/gotabaya-5\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-146416\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-146416\" class=\"size-full wp-image-146416\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Gotabaya-.jpg\" alt=\"Gotabaya Rajapaksa \" width=\"150\" height=\"149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Gotabaya-.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Gotabaya--50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-146416\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gotabaya Rajapaksa<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Addressing Sri Lankans living in Japan via Skype, Gotabaya yesterday said that, \u201cif mistakes were made we should learn from them and help Sri Lanka recover from its current fallen state, and I am happy to help rescue this country,\u201d he told the forum.<\/p>\n<p>He also denied any connections with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Bodu+Bala+Sena&amp;x=11&amp;y=6\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Bodu Bala Sena<\/span><\/a>, saying it was due to these false rumours that his brother, former President Mahinda Rajapaksa lost the election as Muslims voted against him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can categorically state that neither did Mahinda Rajapaksa, the government or I worked in any way to bring injustice to the Muslims and Tamils in Sri Lanka,\u201d said Rajapaksa, who takes credit for the war win against the LTTE and also have been embroiled in the white van abduction saga.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":146416,"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-159555","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 - 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