{"id":45366,"date":"2012-06-15T18:24:35","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T18:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=45366"},"modified":"2012-06-18T10:37:25","modified_gmt":"2012-06-18T10:37:25","slug":"two-jvp-members-killed-govt-attempting-to-evade-responsibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/two-jvp-members-killed-govt-attempting-to-evade-responsibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Two JVP Members Killed, Govt. Attempting To Evade Responsibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Colombo Telegraph &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The government is attempting to evade the responsibility of the shooting at the JVP meeting held at Katuwana in Hambantota District. In an announcement issued by the Director General of the Media Center for National Security after a long time states the shooting was the result of a clash between two factions of the JVP.\u00a0However, it is being revealed that the shooting has been carried out by Joolampitiye Amare, an underworld leader manipulated by the government.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/two-jvp-members-killed-govt-attempting-to-evade-responsibility\/jvp-logo\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-45367\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-45367\" title=\"jvp-logo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/jvp-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"166\" \/><\/a>A woman and a boy were killed and 25 others were critically injured when an unidentified group shot indiscriminately at a Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) political meeting held in Katuwana , in the Beliaththa area in Hambantota, this evening. \u00a0.<\/p>\n<p>It is confirmed that Kiripitiyegedera Samanthe (18 years) and Edirimannage Manel (50) were killed in the shooting. \u00a0A group of ten had come in five motorcycles to carry out the shooting. The Member of the Central Committee of the JVP Dr. Nalinda Jayatissa and several others had been on stage at the time of shooting. A spokesman for\u00a0the\u00a0JVP stated\u00a0that\u00a0the\u00a0government was trying to evade\u00a0the\u00a0responsibility of\u00a0the\u00a0shooting.<\/p>\n<p>The owner of the house where the meeting was held and several others have been injured.\u00a0Police Spokesperson SP Ajith Rohana said, \u201cThe incident had taken place at around 7 p.m., this evening, where a JVP meeting attended by approximately 150 members was shot at by one of the four to five motorcyclists who arrived at the meeting, killing a woman and a boy, while critically injuring 25 others.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":45367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[2730,2729,2731,2732],"class_list":["post-45366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","tag-jvp-meeting-held-at-katuwana","tag-jvp-members-killed","tag-jvp-members-killed-news","tag-jvp-members-killed-updates"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Two JVP Members Killed, Govt. 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