{"id":43209,"date":"2012-05-29T23:12:04","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T23:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=43209"},"modified":"2012-06-01T10:30:09","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T10:30:09","slug":"gota-is-manipulating-demography-suresh-premachandran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/gota-is-manipulating-demography-suresh-premachandran\/","title":{"rendered":"Gota Is Manipulating Demography &#8211;  Suresh Premachandran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/\">Colombo Telegraph<\/a><\/span> &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThe most recent census revealed that out of the 954,000 residents in the North 900,000 are Tamils and 23,000 Sinhalese, so what is the Defence Secretary trying to say? Almost all the census carried out by the governments, have revealed this demographic pattern. Is he saying that this is not true?\u201d \u00a0 TNA MP Suresh Premachandran told media.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_43210\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/gota-is-manipulating-demography-suresh-premachandran\/suresh-premachandran-colombo-telegraph\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-43210\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43210\" class=\"size-full wp-image-43210\" title=\"Suresh Premachandran Colombo Telegraph\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Suresh-Premachandran-Colombo-Telegraph.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Suresh-Premachandran-Colombo-Telegraph.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Suresh-Premachandran-Colombo-Telegraph-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-43210\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Suresh Premachandran<\/p><\/div>\n<p>TNA MP Suresh Premachandran refuting <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-18207198\">recent remarks made by Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa<\/a><\/span> said that the statement was a prelude to changing the demographic patterns of the North, Daily Mirror reports.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-18207198\">BBC<\/a><\/span>, Defence secretary Rajapaksa has said it is not appropriate to view the north of the country, over which a separatist war was fought, as a predominantly Tamil area.<\/p>\n<p>Premachandran went on to state that that the acts of the government are clearly set on an agenda. \u201c The growing number of Buddhist temples in the area, the militarization of the north and the fact that there are new Sinhalese settlements in many areas of the North shows what the Defence Secretary wants to do is to change the demographic patterns of the Northern province\u201d he said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":43210,"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":[],"class_list":["post-43209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-most-popular","category-news","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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