{"id":40402,"date":"2012-05-02T01:36:26","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T01:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=40402"},"modified":"2012-05-02T01:36:26","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T01:36:26","slug":"sri-lanka-against-disguising-global-influence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sri-lanka-against-disguising-global-influence\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka Against Disguising Global Influence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_40403\" style=\"width: 355px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sri-lanka-against-disguising-global-influence\/mahinda-r-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40403\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40403\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40403\" title=\"Mahinda R\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Mahinda-R.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"345\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Mahinda-R.jpg 345w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Mahinda-R-300x211.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 345px) 100vw, 345px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-40403\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Mahinda Rajapaksa<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Colombo, May 2 (IANS) International &#8220;conspiracies&#8221; under the guise of human rights will not be allowed to break Sri Lankans&#8217; unity, President Mahinda Rajapaksa has said.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing a May Day rally Tuesday in Colombo, the Sri Lankan president said &#8220;the unity of working people is essential to rebuild this nation&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am confident that you will not deviate from this task and I promise that no outside influences will de-rail the intentions of this government with talk over human rights,&#8221; Xinhua quoted the president as saying.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, at the Opposition&#8217;s May Day rallies in the country, the Sri Lankan government was urged by opposition parties to release jailed former army commander Sarath Fonseka.<\/p>\n<p>Fonseka, who challenged Rajapaksa during the 2010 presidential election, was sentenced to an additional three years in prison after his sentence expired in January 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The main opposition United National Party (UNP) deputy leader Sajith Premadasa called for &#8220;unconditional release&#8221; of Fonseka who has filed an appeal for bail.<\/p>\n<p>Besides, the country&#8217;s main Tamil party &#8212; Tamil National Alliance &#8212; reiterated their demand for a political solution through power devolution from the central government on this day.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":40403,"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-40402","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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