{"id":76072,"date":"2013-03-06T13:02:08","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T13:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=76072"},"modified":"2013-03-06T13:28:44","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T13:28:44","slug":"geneva-lies-infographics-the-militarisation-of-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/geneva-lies-infographics-the-militarisation-of-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Geneva Lies: Infographics The Militarisation Of Sri Lanka"},"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><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Mahinda+Samarasinghe&amp;x=12&amp;y=6\">Mahinda Samarasinghe<\/a><\/span>, the Sri Lankan envoy on Human rights <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/we-need-time-and-space-mr-president\/\">said last week<\/a><\/span>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">&#8220;The Government is in the process of devising measures to pay compensation to the owners of properties within such areas or provide them with alternate land. I must re-emphasize that the military is in no way engaged in civil administration which is the sole responsibility of civilian officials. There are absolutely no restrictions on travel today in the North and civilians enjoy complete freedom of movement.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On 5th March 2013 the family members, who were travelling to Colombo\u00a0to participate in a protest campaign and to hand over a petition to UN\u00a0regarding their disappeared relatives, were blocked in Vavuniya by a\u00a0joint operation of the police and the military.<\/p>\n<p>The infographics below are created by the\u00a0Sri Lanka Campaign.\u00a0The militarisation of Sri Lanka &#8211; infographics to highlight the current situation in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/geneva-lies-infographics-the-militarisation-of-sri-lanka\/sri_infographic_fig3_a\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-76073\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-76073\" title=\"SRI_infographic_fig3_A\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/SRI_infographic_fig3_A.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/SRI_infographic_fig3_A.jpg 2480w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/SRI_infographic_fig3_A-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/SRI_infographic_fig3_A-1024x721.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/SRI_infographic_fig3_A-800x563.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/geneva-lies-infographics-the-militarisation-of-sri-lanka\/sri_infographic_fig3_b\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-76084\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-76084\" title=\"SRI_infographic_fig3_B\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/SRI_infographic_fig3_B.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"643\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/SRI_infographic_fig3_B.jpg 2480w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/SRI_infographic_fig3_B-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/SRI_infographic_fig3_B-1024x721.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/SRI_infographic_fig3_B-800x563.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 643px) 100vw, 643px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":76073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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