{"id":189887,"date":"2018-04-18T15:43:37","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T10:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=189887"},"modified":"2018-04-19T12:02:18","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T06:32:18","slug":"malicious-media-discrediting-government-president-tells-sri-lankans-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/malicious-media-discrediting-government-president-tells-sri-lankans-in-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Malicious Media Discrediting Government, President Tells Sri Lankans In London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Maithripala+Sirisena\">Maithripala Sirisena<\/a> lamented that the \u2018forward march of the motherland\u2019 is being stymied by certain people\u2019s efforts to suppress truth and inflate untruths.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing a gathering of expatriate Sri Lankans living in London, President Sirisena requested them to understand the true situation and support efforts to put the country back on track, according to a media release of the President\u2019s Media Unit.<\/p>\n<p>Sirisena further stated that correct information about the government\u2019s programme to develop the country while establishing democracy and freedom has not been disseminated to the general public. He principally blamed unnamed media institutions and social media platforms for this state of affairs, claiming that political and commercial objectives have motivated these to suppress the truth and disseminate lies.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the Government has spared no efforts over the last three years to discharge all responsibilities to the \u2018beloved motherland\u2019 and noted that turning the peace obtained by establishing reconciliation and co-existence into a sustainable peace has been a priority in these efforts.<\/p>\n<p>President Sirisena boasted that several significant victories have been scored over the past three years including economic policies that have been successful at strengthening the economy of the people and developing the country, and winning over sections of the international community previously arrayed against the country.<\/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%2Fmaithripalas%2Fvideos%2F10156071777021327%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":189889,"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-189887","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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