{"id":11919,"date":"2022-06-20T04:20:38","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T04:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=11919"},"modified":"2022-06-20T04:20:40","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T04:20:40","slug":"us-seeks-probe-on-excessive-use-of-force-at-fuel-stations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/us-seeks-probe-on-excessive-use-of-force-at-fuel-stations\/","title":{"rendered":"US seeks probe on excessive use of force at fuel stations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The United States (US) has called for an investigation into any excessive use of force at fuel stations in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The US Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Julie Chung urged the authorities to exercise restraint under these difficult circumstances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAs petrol lines &amp; power cuts increase, tensions are naturally rising too. But boiling over will not address SL\u2019s urgent needs. I urge authorities to exercise restraint under these difficult circumstances. Any excessive use of force should be quickly investigated,\u201d she tweeted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier, the UN Resident Coordinator to Sri Lanka, Hanaa Singer-Hamdy said she was troubled by the images of violence in petrol queues, involving the Police and Army.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI urge security services to understand the frustration of citizens spending hours in long lines, &amp; to exercise restraint in the use of force. I call on authorities to investigate any excessive use of force,\u201d she tweeted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A number of incidents have been reported at fuel stations across the country as the public wait in long queues for fuel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States (US) has called for an investigation into any excessive use of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11920,"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-11919","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\/11919","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=11919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11921,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11919\/revisions\/11921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}