{"id":182540,"date":"2017-09-29T04:54:32","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T23:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=182540"},"modified":"2017-09-30T00:39:29","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T19:09:29","slug":"un-safe-house-attack-police-fail-to-nab-saffron-thugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/un-safe-house-attack-police-fail-to-nab-saffron-thugs\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Safe House Attack: Police Fail To Nab Saffron Thugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite obtaining video footage, police have failed to nab <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/myanmar-style-vigilante-action-by-sinhala-ravaya\/\">the attackers of the\u00a0Rohingya refugees<\/a>\u00a0on Tuesday in Mount Lavinia, while they were under the care of the\u00a0United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday Minister of Finance and Media Mangala Samaraweera and government spokesman Minister Rajitha Senaratne have condemned the\u00a0mob lead by Buddhist monks and urged police to take action against the perpetrators.<\/p>\n<p>The attackers were &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/video-mangala-condemns-attacks-on-rohingya-refugees\/\">thugs in robes<\/a>,&#8217; Mangala Samaraweera said. \u201cIt is a shameful act and every right-minded citizen of this country especially Buddhists must condemn this action by this so called priests and I also urge the police to take the strongest possible action against the perpetrators of these crimes against these innocent refugees,\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Br2ILdbUedk\" width=\"900\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8OG6A0eLoM0\" width=\"900\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":182542,"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-182540","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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