{"id":62188,"date":"2012-11-28T09:50:18","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T09:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=62188"},"modified":"2012-12-09T11:37:15","modified_gmt":"2012-12-09T11:37:15","slug":"sri-lanka-sends-us-a-suspect-emissary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sri-lanka-sends-us-a-suspect-emissary\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka Sends Us A Suspect Emissary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Peter Fabricius &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<div id=\"attachment_62189\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sri-lanka-sends-us-a-suspect-emissary\/ss\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-62189\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62189\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-62189\" title=\"SS\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/SS-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/SS-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/SS-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-62189\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shavendra Silva<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Sri Lankan government\u2019s controversial decision to appoint, as its deputy high commissioner to South Africa, an army general accused of war crimes serves \u2013 if nothing else \u2013 to highlight that country\u2019s inadequate efforts to consign its recent dismal civil war to history.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Sri Lankan high commissioner Winithkumar Shehan Rantavale confirmed speculation in the Sri Lankan media that General Shavendra Silva\u2019s appointment to Pretoria was \u201cin the pipeline\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Read more\u00a0in the\u00a0South African newspaper group IOL <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/news\/sri-lanka-sends-us-a-suspect-emissary-1.1432088#.ULXeIuQ2ZAC\">here<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Related posts;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a title=\"Alleged War Criminals Appointed Again, Militarisation Of Diplomatic Service Continues\" href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/alleged-war-criminals-appointed-again-militarisation-of-diplomatic-service-continues\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Alleged War Criminals Appointed Again, Militarisation Of Diplomatic Service Continues<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":62189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,46,8,2938],"tags":[6729,6730],"class_list":["post-62188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-constitutional-reforms","category-editorial","category-popular","tag-shavendra-silvas-appointment-to-south-africa","tag-war-crimes-and-diplomats-sri-lanka"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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