{"id":37950,"date":"2012-04-10T11:47:22","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T11:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=37950"},"modified":"2012-04-14T17:33:37","modified_gmt":"2012-04-14T17:33:37","slug":"gota-slams-aussies-aussies-thanks-gota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/gota-slams-aussies-aussies-thanks-gota\/","title":{"rendered":"Gota Slams Aussies , Aussies Thanks Gota"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Colombo Telegraph &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/gota-slams-aussies-aussies-thanks-gota\/gota-and-aussies\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-37951\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-37951\" title=\"Gota and Aussies\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Gota-and-Aussies.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"174\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>&#8220;The Australian High Commissioner in Colombo escorted <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Gunaratnam&amp;x=14&amp;y=5\">the man<\/a><\/span> to the airport and confirmed his departure from Sri Lanka. Australian authorities have thanked the police and other agencies in Sri Lanka for facilitating the man\u2019s departure from Sri Lanka,\u201d Australia\u2019s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade told to media.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile Defense secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa participating<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/gota-admitted-kumar-surrendered-to-a-police\/\"> \u2018Doramadalawa\u2019 programme of the state owned ITN<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>said that the Australian High Commission did not furnish him with any information regarding Gunarathnam when he requested for them a few months ago. \u201cThey wanted to know of a man by the name of Noel Mudalige who has disappeared, they gave me his passport number. In that letter they sent me the High commission had said that this man had arrived on the 3rd of September. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/gota-asked-aussies-to-prove-gunaratnams-arrival-in-sri-lanka\/\">Now all these details were given only after this incident<\/a><\/span>\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow many people who claim to be missing must be in Canada and Australia under different names?. This incident is the best example to prove this point. Is this what good governance is that we are being preached about? The Australian government knew very well that this man is using a different identity and has taken citizenship in Australia; they knew very well that he came to this country under this false name and was to be a leader of a political party of this country. Is this what they call good governance?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>To read stories related to the Gunarathnam abduction\u00a0affair\u00a0click<\/strong> <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Gunaratnam&amp;x=14&amp;y=5\">here<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":38536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2187,1,2375],"tags":[2493,2494,2495],"class_list":["post-37950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-most-popular","category-news","category-stories","tag-gota-on-kumar-gunaratnam-and-australians","tag-gotabhaya-on-premakumar-gunaratnam-latest","tag-robyn-mudie-and-gotabhaya-rajapkasa"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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