{"id":12104,"date":"2022-09-03T06:42:07","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T06:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=12104"},"modified":"2022-09-03T06:42:09","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T06:42:09","slug":"gotabaya-rajapaksa-returns-to-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/gotabaya-rajapaksa-returns-to-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Gotabaya Rajapaksa returns to Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa returned to Sri Lanka today after fleeing the country in July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The former President arrived at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gotabaya Rajapaksa resigned from his post in July after thousands of protesters gathered in Colombo and stormed the President\u2019s House in Colombo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rajapaksa flew into Singapore from the Maldives on July 14 after fleeing Sri Lanka and tendered his resignation shortly after his arrival in Singapore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From Singapore the former President moved to Thailand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL) had said recently that Gotabaya Rajapaksa is entitled to protection and should be allowed to return to the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The HRCSL said that it had received complaints over alleged threats to the life of the former President and his family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Commission said that Rajapaksa is entitled to the protection of the law to a safe return to the country and recommended that the Government provide adequate protection to his family to return to the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa returned to Sri Lanka today after fleeing the country in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12105,"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-12104","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\/12104","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=12104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12106,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12104\/revisions\/12106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}