{"id":161363,"date":"2016-04-27T15:33:29","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T10:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=161363"},"modified":"2016-04-27T15:33:29","modified_gmt":"2016-04-27T10:03:29","slug":"tna-says-sampanthan-did-not-forcefully-enter-army-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/tna-says-sampanthan-did-not-forcefully-enter-army-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"TNA Says Sampanthan Did Not Forcefully Enter \u2018Army Camp\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tamil National Alliance today denied forcefully entering an Army Camp in Kilinochchi.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_155853\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/mixed-reactions-as-national-anthem-sung-in-tamil\/r-sampanthan-colombo-telegraph\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-155853\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-155853\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-155853\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/R.-Sampanthan-Colombo-Telegraph-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"R. Sampanthan\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/R.-Sampanthan-Colombo-Telegraph-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/R.-Sampanthan-Colombo-Telegraph-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-155853\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">R. Sampanthan<\/p><\/div>\n<p>TNA MP, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=M.+A.+Sumanthiran&amp;x=15&amp;y=5\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">M. A. Sumanthiran<\/span><\/a> said that the land which was reported as an army camp, has been illegally acquired by the military, hence the TNA led by its leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=R.+Sampanthan&amp;x=9&amp;y=7\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">R. Sampanthan<\/span><\/a> did not forcefully enter any camp, but \u2018visited a private property, legally not acquired by the Army.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Sampanthan also met with Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe this morning to complain about the army continuing to forcefully occupy the land of civilians in Kilinochchi.<\/p>\n<p>Over the week, several media reported that Sampanthan, along with other TNA MPs and their supporters had forcefully entered the Paravipachchan camp in Kilinochchi on April 16 without obtaining prior permission from the Army and had remained in the camp for several hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":155853,"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-161363","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>TNA Says Sampanthan Did Not Forcefully Enter \u2018Army Camp\u2019 - 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\/tna-says-sampanthan-did-not-forcefully-enter-army-camp\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"TNA Says Sampanthan Did Not Forcefully Enter \u2018Army Camp\u2019 - Colombo Telegraph\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"[&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/tna-says-sampanthan-did-not-forcefully-enter-army-camp\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Colombo Telegraph\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-04-27T10:03:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/R.-Sampanthan-Colombo-Telegraph.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"223\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"240\" \/>\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\/tna-says-sampanthan-did-not-forcefully-enter-army-camp\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/tna-says-sampanthan-did-not-forcefully-enter-army-camp\/\",\"name\":\"TNA Says Sampanthan Did Not Forcefully Enter \u2018Army Camp\u2019 - Colombo Telegraph\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/tna-says-sampanthan-did-not-forcefully-enter-army-camp\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/tna-says-sampanthan-did-not-forcefully-enter-army-camp\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/R.-Sampanthan-Colombo-Telegraph.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-04-27T10:03:29+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/#\/schema\/person\/9db3d0cfcfa59e1997e3c3524d454cb3\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/tna-says-sampanthan-did-not-forcefully-enter-army-camp\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/tna-says-sampanthan-did-not-forcefully-enter-army-camp\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/tna-says-sampanthan-did-not-forcefully-enter-army-camp\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/R.-Sampanthan-Colombo-Telegraph.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/R.-Sampanthan-Colombo-Telegraph.jpg\",\"width\":223,\"height\":240,\"caption\":\"R. 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