{"id":78521,"date":"2013-03-22T03:07:39","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T03:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=78521"},"modified":"2013-03-31T12:40:43","modified_gmt":"2013-03-31T12:40:43","slug":"presidents-adviser-made-a-complaint-that-i-scolded-the-president-azath-salley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/presidents-adviser-made-a-complaint-that-i-scolded-the-president-azath-salley\/","title":{"rendered":"President&#8217;s Adviser Made A Complaint That I Scolded The President &#8211; Azath Salley"},"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><strong>Yesterday soon after the UNHRC voting took place two jeeps with police officers have come to my residence to arrest me, on informing that I was not available they came to my office. By that time I came out of office and was staying outside up to now, says the\u00a0Muslim Tamil National Alliance leader <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Azath+Salley&amp;x=6&amp;y=7\">Azath Salley<\/a><\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_53557\" style=\"width: 136px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/tna-stake-the-claim-to-form-the-eastern-provincial-administration-together-with-the-slmc-and-unp\/m-azath-s-salley\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-53557\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53557\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-53557\" title=\"M. Azath S. Salley\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/M.-Azath-S.-Salley-126x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"126\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-53557\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Azath Salley<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sending an email to Colombo Telegraph he said; &#8220;We sent three lawyers to C C D to check, they informed that the President&#8217;s adviser on religious affairs, has made a complaint that I scolded the president and intimidated him. If that is the case they should have logged the case at the Cinnamon Garden police station and referred it to the mediation board for settlement but, the information I have got is that five teams have been deployed for my arrest with some reason.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Muslim Tamil National Alliance, led by Azath Salley, urged the UN to draw the attention of the Government of Sri Lanka to international standards relevant to the protection and promotion of the rights of minorities.<\/p>\n<p>The letter sent to UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, had said that radical members of the Buddhist clergy were taking the law into their hands, with the enforcers of the law watching from the sidelines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter the defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Ealam, the Muslims of Sri Lanka have been looking at every opportunity to bring about national unity at a time when the country is in transition. We fail to understand the failure of the government of Sri Lanka in arresting the current trend which if left to go its course ,would spell disaster for the country we call our home,\u201d the letter said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":53557,"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-78521","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 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>President&#039;s Adviser Made A Complaint That I Scolded The President - Azath Salley - Colombo Telegraph<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/presidents-adviser-made-a-complaint-that-i-scolded-the-president-azath-salley\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"President&#039;s Adviser Made A Complaint That I Scolded The President - 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