{"id":57429,"date":"2012-10-24T14:14:20","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T14:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=57429"},"modified":"2012-10-27T01:16:42","modified_gmt":"2012-10-27T01:16:42","slug":"gotabhaya-weerawansa-and-champika-are-part-of-an-international-conspiracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/gotabhaya-weerawansa-and-champika-are-part-of-an-international-conspiracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Gotabhaya, Weerawansa And Champika Are Part Of An International Conspiracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LSSP Leader and Senior Minister <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Tissa+Vitharana&amp;x=7&amp;y=5\">Tissa Vitharana<\/a><\/span> said yesterday the demand by certain government members to abrogate the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=13th+Amendment&amp;x=11&amp;y=2\">13th Amendment<\/a><\/span> could be an international conspiracy to embarrass Sri Lanka at the November <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=UNHRC&amp;x=12&amp;y=5\">UNHRC<\/a><\/span> sessions in Geneva,\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/epaper.dailymirror.lk\/epaper\/viewer.aspx\">Daily Mirror<\/a><\/span> print edition reports.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_57430\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/gotabhaya-weerawansa-and-champika-are-part-of-an-international-conspiracy\/tissa-vitharana1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-57430\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57430\" class=\"size-full wp-image-57430\" title=\"Tissa Vitharana1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Tissa-Vitharana1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Tissa-Vitharana1.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Tissa-Vitharana1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Tissa-Vitharana1-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-57430\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tissa Vitharana<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThose who are campaigning against the 13th Amendment were supplying ammunition to our detractors who are hell bent on destabilizing Sri Lanka. The suggestions to abrogate the 13th Amendment to the Constitution was extremely unfortunate and will bring vastly negative repercussions,\u201d said the Minister who chaired the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=APRC&amp;x=10&amp;y=6\">APRC<\/a><\/span> and submitted a set of proposals on power devolution to President <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Mahinda+Rajapaksa&amp;x=7&amp;y=9\">Mahinda Rajapaksa<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am sorry that some government members are carrying out a campaign to abrogate the 13th Amendment to the Constitution which introduced the Provincial Council system that led to all the militant groups except the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=LTTE&amp;x=10&amp;y=6\">LTTE<\/a><\/span> to give up arms and enter the democratic process under a unitary state. If under any circumstances the 13th Amendment and thereby the PCs were abrogated \u2013I hope it will never happen \u2013 it will diminish and dash all hopes of not only Tamils but all Tamil-speaking people of this country to live in a united Sri Lanka as one nation with the Sinhalese. This is disastrous to the extreme,\u201d Dr. Vitharana told Daily Mirror.<\/p>\n<p>He said if there were weaknesses in the 13th Amendment those had to be corrected in a collective effort which will meet the aspirations of all Sinhalese, Tamils and Muslims. The position of the LSSP is that the 13th Amendment has to be further strengthened by devolving power to the village level to ensure there would be no seeds of separatism on Sri Lankan soil, the Daily Mirror reported.<\/p>\n<p>Ministers <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Champika+Ranawaka&amp;x=6&amp;y=5\">Champika Ranawaka<\/a><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Wimal+Weerawansa&amp;x=9&amp;y=5\">Wimal Weerawansa<\/a><\/span> and the\u00a0Secretary to the Ministry of Defense and\u00a0Urban Development <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Gotabhaya+Rajapaksa&amp;x=14&amp;y=10\">Gotabhaya Rajapaksa<\/a><\/span> are campaigning against the\u00a0\u00a013th Amendment to the Constitution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":57706,"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-57429","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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