{"id":11783,"date":"2022-04-24T09:11:24","date_gmt":"2022-04-24T09:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=11783"},"modified":"2022-04-24T09:11:26","modified_gmt":"2022-04-24T09:11:26","slug":"sri-lankans-in-sydney-stage-demonstration-against-rajapaksas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/sri-lankans-in-sydney-stage-demonstration-against-rajapaksas\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankans in Sydney stage demonstration against Rajapaksas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Sri Lankan community in Sydney staged a demonstration today against President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The demonstrators held placards during the protest written in English and Sinhalese.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The protesters demanded an end to nepotism, corruption and discrimination in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Similar protests have already been staged in other parts of the world as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A mass protest is currently underway at Galle Face demanding the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his Cabinet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The protesters are also demanding a change in the political system in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The protests began after Sri Lanka plunged into a serious economic crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The crisis saw a shortage of fuel, gas and other essential items in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sri Lankan community in Sydney staged a demonstration today against President Gotabaya Rajapaksa&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11785,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11783\/revisions\/11785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}