{"id":37794,"date":"2012-04-09T11:43:41","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T11:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=37794"},"modified":"2012-04-09T15:51:06","modified_gmt":"2012-04-09T15:51:06","slug":"gota-asked-aussies-to-prove-gunaratnams-arrival-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/gota-asked-aussies-to-prove-gunaratnams-arrival-in-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Gota Asked Aussies To Prove Gunaratnam\u2019s Arrival In Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Colombo Telegraph &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_37815\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/gota-asked-aussies-to-prove-gunaratnams-arrival-in-sri-lanka\/admiral-thisara-samarasingh-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-37815\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37815\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-37815\" title=\"Admiral-Thisara-Samarasingh\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Admiral-Thisara-Samarasingh-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Admiral-Thisara-Samarasingh-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Admiral-Thisara-Samarasingh.jpg 703w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-37815\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Samarasinghe and Gotabhaya<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Defence Secretary Gotabhaya has asked the Australian government to provide details of the leader of JVP dissident\u00a0group leader\u00a0 Premakumar Gunaratnam\u2019s arrival in Sri Lanka.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He made this request when Australian High Commissioner in Colombo, Robyn Mudie, took up the issue of his disappearance with the government over the weekend. \u00a0Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa told Mudie that since she had declared the missing person an Australian national, she should prove that he had arrived in Sri Lanka. Rajapaksa emphasised that as far as records pertaining to arrivals at the Bandaranaike International Airport were concerned, no Australian national carrying a passport bearing the name, Premakumar Gunaratnam, had ever come to Sri Lanka. \u00a0High Commissioner\u00a0Mudie has claimed that Australian authorities had received a complaint from <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wife-issues-plea-for-missing-australian-abc-news\/\">the missing person\u2019s wife that her husband had gone missing<\/a><\/span> in Sri Lanka. The Defence Secretary has also reminded HC Mudie that the Australian High Commission had ignored a previous request from the GoSL to help establish the whereabouts of Gunaratnam, following media reports of his arrival in the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile\u00a0Sri Lankan High Commissioner to Australia, Thisara Samarasinghe, says his government has yet to establish whether Sydney man Kumar Gunaratnam was abducted in Colombo. Watch the \u00a0ABC video\u00a0below \u00a0for the full\u00a0interview;<\/p>\n<p>Related stories;<strong><a title=\"A Detail Account Of Gunaratnam Abduction\" href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/a-detail-account-of-gunaratnam-abduction\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">A Detail Account Of Gunaratnam Abduction<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/no-abductions-in-sri-lanka-samarasinghe-denies-record-of-missing-gunaratnam-abc\/\"><strong>No Abductions In Sri Lanka: Samarasinghe Denies Record Of Missing Gunaratnam \u2013 ABC<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=N64MsgGwM4c#!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":37797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,2375],"tags":[2468,2463],"class_list":["post-37794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-stories","tag-kumar-mahaththaya-news-latest","tag-premkumar-gunaratnam-latest"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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