{"id":203011,"date":"2019-06-30T09:35:19","date_gmt":"2019-06-30T04:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=203011"},"modified":"2019-06-30T09:35:19","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T04:05:19","slug":"easter-sunday-attacks-viyathmaga-kamal-gunaratne-trashes-army-commander-and-the-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/easter-sunday-attacks-viyathmaga-kamal-gunaratne-trashes-army-commander-and-the-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Easter Sunday Attacks: Viyathmaga Kamal Gunaratne Trashes Army Commander And The Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gotabaya Rajapaksa\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Viyathmaga\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Viyathmaga<\/span><\/strong><\/a> front-liner and retired Major General <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Kamal+Gunaratne\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Kamal Gunaratne<\/span><\/strong><\/a> has trashed Army Commander Mahesh Senanayake and the Sri Lanka Police.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_183356\" style=\"width: 905px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Major-General-Kamal-Gunaratne.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-183356\" class=\" wp-image-183356\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Major-General-Kamal-Gunaratne.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"895\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Major-General-Kamal-Gunaratne.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Major-General-Kamal-Gunaratne-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 895px) 100vw, 895px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-183356\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gunaratne<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThis group [referring to the National Thawheed Jamath] was training and preparing for the attacks but our Army Commander says \u2018we didn\u2019t know\u2019 and \u2018we were not told\u2019,\u201d Gunaratne says implying it is the most preposterous comment that can be made by an Army Commander.<\/p>\n<p>He says the Army Commander is an official who has access to the richest intelligence sources of the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are over 3500 officers and soldiers in intelligence units reporting to the Army Commander&#8230;Surely we didn\u2019t fight the war for 30 years while waiting for information from a police officer?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He went on to trash the Army Commander, criticizing his lack of action to prevent the Easter Sunday attacks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t need an army commander who waits for cues from someone else on impending attacks&#8230;If that was the case, we don\u2019t need to appoint a General to that position,\u201d he added.<\/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":[3,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203011","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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