{"id":15428,"date":"2021-09-10T10:25:15","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T04:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=15428"},"modified":"2024-05-14T08:54:36","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T03:24:36","slug":"kamal-gunaratne-breaks-the-silence-on-behalf-of-gotabaya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=15428","title":{"rendered":"Kamal Gunaratne breaks the silence on behalf of Gotabaya"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Secretary to the Ministry of Defense, Kamal Gunaratne, held a press conference at the Ministry yesterday (9th) and asked the people not to fall prey to the attempts of some to portray the Easter attack as a conspiracy to bring the President to power.<br \/>It is clear that the Secretary to the Ministry of Defense, who has been silent in recent times, held a press conference on this occasion to respond to the strong criticisms levelled at the government by the Cardinal and other Catholic priests.<br \/>The government&#8217;s &#8216;Dinamina&#8217; newspaper reported that, &#8220;Gunaratne had said after the Cardinal made the statement, intelligence and police officials gave a four-hour explanation to the Catholic bishops, and the bishops were satisfied with the explanation. However, unfortunately, the Cardinal did not attend the meeting.&#8221;<br \/>The newspaper further reported that &#8220;Ginarawtne had said that some people were trying to form an opinion that the attack was a conspiracy to bring the President to power and urged the people not to be deceived by false ideologies.<\/p>\n<div class='saic-wrapper saic-default saic-comments-closed saic-border' style='overflow: hidden;'><div class='saic-wrap-link'><a id='saic-link-15428' class='saic-link saic-icon-link saic-icon-link-true auto-load-true' href='?post_id=15428&amp;comments=0&amp;get=30&amp;order=DESC' title='0 Comments'><i class='saico-comment'><\/i><span>0<\/span> Comments<\/a><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-link--><div id='saic-wrap-commnent-15428' class='saic-wrap-comments' style='display:none;'><div id='saic-wrap-form-15428' class='saic-wrap-form saic-clearfix'><div class='saic-form-avatar'><\/div><div id='saic-container-form-15428' class='saic-container-form saic-no-login'><p>Comments are closed<\/p><\/div><!--.saic-container-form--><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-form--><div id='saic-comment-status-15428'  class='saic-comment-status'><\/div><ul id='saic-container-comment-15428' class='saic-container-comments saic-order-DESC ' data-order='DESC'><\/ul><div class='saic-holder-15428 saic-holder'><\/div><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-comments--><\/div><!--.saic-wrapper-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Secretary to the Ministry of Defense, Kamal Gunaratne, held a press conference at the Ministry yesterday (9th) and asked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[97,107,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-smartphones","category-political","category-religion","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24336,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15428\/revisions\/24336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}