{"id":38754,"date":"2012-04-16T13:15:35","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T13:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=38754"},"modified":"2012-04-16T13:15:35","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T13:15:35","slug":"sri-lankan-opposition-demand-debate-on-disappearance-abduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sri-lankan-opposition-demand-debate-on-disappearance-abduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan Opposition Demand Debate On Disappearance, Abduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"Content\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sri-lankan-opposition-demand-debate-on-disappearance-abduction\/sri-lanka-parliament-fight-getty\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38755\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-38755\" title=\"Sri-Lanka-parliament-fight-Getty\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Sri-Lanka-parliament-fight-Getty-300x210.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Sri-Lanka-parliament-fight-Getty-300x210.png 300w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Sri-Lanka-parliament-fight-Getty.png 594w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>COLOMBO, April 16 (Xinhua) &#8212; Sri Lanka&#8217;s main opposition on Monday said it was demanding for a debate on increasing number of disappearances and abductions in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The Chief Opposition Whip, United National Party MP John Amaratunga said the party hopes to table this adjournment motion at the parliamentary session starting on May 8.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want to bring this serious problem before the parliament as the incidents of abductions and disappearance have gone up rapidly over the recent past,&#8221; Amaratunga said.<\/p>\n<p>He said the request for the inclusion of the motion in parliamentary agenda is to be submitted to the parliamentary secretary this week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The government should be answerable to increasing number of disappearances,&#8221; Amaratunga said.<\/p>\n<p>The opposition&#8217;s demand to take up the issue before parliament was triggered by the disappearance of Sri Lanka&#8217;s new Marxist party Frontline Socialist Party leader Premakumar Gunaratnam.<\/p>\n<p>Gunaratnam, a former member of the Marxist People&#8217;s Liberation Front, the leading opposition political party in Sri Lanka, went missing earlier this month before he was found a couple of days later.<\/p>\n<p>Gunaratnam and a few others split from the People&#8217;s Liberation Front, also known as the JVP, following a rift with the party leadership, and launched the Frontline Socialist Party this month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"line-height: normal;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":38755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-from-foreign-media"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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