{"id":20533,"date":"2023-03-15T13:52:38","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T08:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=20533"},"modified":"2024-01-09T12:40:48","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T07:10:48","slug":"retired-air-vice-marshal-who-expressed-his-views-on-npp-platform-blacklisted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=20533","title":{"rendered":"Retired Air Vice Marshal, who expressed his views on NPP platform, blacklisted"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A retired air force officer has been barred from entering air force bases and getting all the facilities that a retired officer can get from the air force for doing politics and expressing views on it.<br \/>The officer who has been blacklisted since last 10th is Air Vice Marshal (Retired) Sampath Thuiyakontha. He retired from service one and a half years ago after receiving awards as a senior officer of the Air Force and a distinguished officer.<br \/>In an inquiry by &#8216;thetime.lk&#8217;, Air Force Media Spokesperson Group Captain Dushan Wijesinghe confirmed the related news.<br \/>The media spokesperson told the site that this retired officer had been blacklisted based on a statement he made on a political party platform, and accordingly he has been banned from entering any air force base or receiving any facilities from the air force.<br \/>Air Vice Marshal (Retired) Sampath Thuiyakontha is currently doing political work with the NPP. He had recently criticized the government&#8217;s performance in a major meeting of the retired three armed forces collective held in Gampaha.<br \/>When asked what the specific opinion expressed by Sampath Thuiyakontha that influenced authorities to take such a decision was, the Air Force Media Spokesman said that it was based on his statement that retired and serving military personnel are ready to work with the political<br \/>Source: \u2018thetime.lk\u2019<\/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-20533' class='saic-link saic-icon-link saic-icon-link-true auto-load-true' href='?post_id=20533&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-20533' class='saic-wrap-comments' style='display:none;'><div id='saic-wrap-form-20533' class='saic-wrap-form saic-clearfix'><div class='saic-form-avatar'><\/div><div id='saic-container-form-20533' 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-20533'  class='saic-comment-status'><\/div><ul id='saic-container-comment-20533' class='saic-container-comments saic-order-DESC ' data-order='DESC'><\/ul><div class='saic-holder-20533 saic-holder'><\/div><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-comments--><\/div><!--.saic-wrapper-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A retired air force officer has been barred from entering air force bases and getting all the facilities that a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20534,"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":[106,97,107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","category-smartphones","category-political","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20533","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=20533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22690,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20533\/revisions\/22690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}