{"id":183354,"date":"2017-10-24T03:24:36","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T21:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=183354"},"modified":"2017-11-01T21:25:38","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T15:55:38","slug":"supporters-of-new-constitution-must-be-killed-major-general-kamal-gunaratne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/supporters-of-new-constitution-must-be-killed-major-general-kamal-gunaratne\/","title":{"rendered":"Supporters Of New Constitution &#8216;Must Be Killed&#8217;: Major General Kamal Gunaratne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Retired Major General <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Kamal+Gunaratne\">Kamal Gunaratne<\/a> insisted that the \u201ctraitors&#8221; who attempt to divide the country introducing a new constitution must be killed. Reminding the 1986-1989 JVP insurrection he said those traitors must not be given a decent funeral.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The former Commander Security Forces Headquarters &#8211; Wanni made the above remarks on Saturday in a meeting organised by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Viyathmaga\">Viyathmaga<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Former Secretary to the Ministry of Defence <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Gotabaya+Rajapaksa\">Gotabaya Rajapaksa<\/a> chaired the meeting, which was also addressed by General Secretary of the Patriotic National Movement Dr. Wasantha Bandara, Design Director of Kandygs Anuradha Yahampath and Dr. Nalaka Godahewa.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Gunaratne said that the government was trying to bring in the new Constitution on the requirement of the Western forces and Tamil Diaspora to please Tamil separatists. He also criticised the government&#8217;s reconciliation process.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In his 26 minutes speech he castigated the people who want to introduce a new constitution and supporters of the\u00a0new constitution as \u201ctraitors to the country\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Watch the video below:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FviyathmagaPBF%2Fvideos%2F1974785622549584%2F&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=560\" width=\"900\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":183356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2186,1,6969,2375,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-featured-news","category-news","category-popular-stories","category-stories","category-video"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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