{"id":56657,"date":"2012-10-15T09:40:39","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T09:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=56657"},"modified":"2012-10-19T14:38:19","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T14:38:19","slug":"hate-poster-campaign-against-civil-society-launched-in-colombo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/hate-poster-campaign-against-civil-society-launched-in-colombo\/","title":{"rendered":"Hate Poster Campaign Against Civil Society Launched In Colombo"},"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>A massive anonymous\u00a0hate poster campaign against civil society launched in Colombo. The poster says; \u00a0&#8220;Protect people-friendly Divineguma Bill which will uplift 1.5 million poor people from the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=paikiasothy+saravanamuttu&amp;x=12&amp;y=1\">Paikiasothy<\/a><\/span> Gang that aids and abets the separation of the country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Centre+for+Policy+Alternatives&amp;x=13&amp;y=7\">Centre for Policy Alternatives<\/a><\/span>\u00a0and its Executive Director\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Paikiasothy+Saravanamuttu&amp;x=4&amp;y=7\">Dr. Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu\u00a0<\/a><\/span>filed a Petition in August in the Supreme Court challenging the constitutionality of the\u00a0\u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/divineguma-bill-challenged-in-supreme-court\/\">Divineguma Bill<\/a><\/span>\u201d.\u00a0The Supreme Court\u2019s determination on the\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Divineguma+Bill&amp;x=4&amp;y=7\">Divineguma Bill<\/a><\/span>\u00a0was tabled in Parliament yesterday (18<sup>\u00a0<\/sup>September). A government-sponsored crowd \u2013 about 3000 were assembled in the Kalapola near Parliament \u2013 transported from various locations in about 40 buses, had been orchestrated, armed with anti Supreme Court slogans. Ministers\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Basil+Rajapaksa&amp;x=13&amp;y=5\">Basil Rajapaksa<\/a><\/span>, Lakshman Yapa Abeywardene and Bandula Gunawardene were seen among the \u201cprotestors.\u201d The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Divineguma-Determination.pdf\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Supreme Court decided that the Bill was\u00a0unconstitutiona<\/span>l<\/a>\u00a0and cannot be passed by Parliament without first being submitted to the Provincial councils for the ascertainment of their views.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/hate-poster-campaign-against-civil-society-launched-in-colombo\/pic_0176\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-56658\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-56658 aligncenter\" title=\"PIC_0176\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/PIC_0176.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"622\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/PIC_0176.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/PIC_0176-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/PIC_0176-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/PIC_0176-800x600.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 622px) 100vw, 622px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/hate-poster-campaign-against-civil-society-launched-in-colombo\/pic_0175\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-56663\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-56663\" title=\"PIC_0175\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/PIC_0175.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"622\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/PIC_0175.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/PIC_0175-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/PIC_0175-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/PIC_0175-800x600.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 622px) 100vw, 622px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":56658,"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":[5579,5578,5580],"class_list":["post-56657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-most-popular","category-news","category-stories","tag-hate-poster-campaign-against-civil-society-launched-in-colombo","tag-hate-poster-campaign-againstdr-paikiasothy-saravanamuttu","tag-poster-campaign-against-ngos-sri-lanka"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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