{"id":4984,"date":"2012-02-23T02:57:27","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T02:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/colombotelegraph.com\/?p=4984"},"modified":"2012-02-23T02:57:27","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T02:57:27","slug":"shavendra-removed-from-un-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/shavendra-removed-from-un-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Shavendra removed from UN group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By<a href=\"http:\/\/colombotelegraph.com\/\"> Colombo Telegraph <\/a><\/strong>&#8211;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4985\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/major-general-shavendra-silva-colombotelegraph.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4985\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4985\" title=\"Major General Shavendra Silva colombotelegraph\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/major-general-shavendra-silva-colombotelegraph.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"178\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4985\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Major General Shavendra Silva<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s deputy U.N. ambassador has been dropped from a group advising Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on payment to troops participating in U.N. peacekeeping operations, the Associated Press reported today.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the group\u2019s chair, former U.N. deputy secretary-general Louise Frechette, said in a statement Wednesday that after consulting other members she had advised Major General Shavendra Silva \u201cthat his participation is not appropriate or helpful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Silva was a top commander during the final stages of the country\u2019s civil war.<\/p>\n<p>Frechette gave no further explanation, but Silva headed Division 58, which was named in a U.N. report in connection with alleged war crimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":4985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,53,31,1,63,67,26],"tags":[2029,2030,2031,1402],"class_list":["post-4984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-disappearance","category-global-politics","category-judiciary","category-news","category-politics-2","category-reconciliation","category-war-crimes","tag-shavendra-removed-from-un","tag-sri-lankas-deputy-u-n-ambassador","tag-u-n-peacekeeping-operations","tag-war-crimes-sri-lanka"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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