{"id":1290,"date":"2017-05-23T03:31:17","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T03:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=1290"},"modified":"2017-05-23T05:37:51","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T05:37:51","slug":"un-urges-sri-lanka-to-act-against-those-inciting-hatred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/un-urges-sri-lanka-to-act-against-those-inciting-hatred\/","title":{"rendered":"UN urges Sri Lanka to act against those inciting hatred"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The United Nations (UN) has urged the Government to act against those inciting hatred.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">UN Resident Coordinator in Sri Lanka, Una McCauley said that last week Sri Lanka celebrated Vesak and this week the teaching of the Lord Buddha are being drowned out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">She urged the Government and the people of Sri Lanka to stand united against those inciting hatred.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Her statement followed a spate of attacks targeting Muslim property, including mosques and business establishments.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The US and UN envoys in Colombo had also spoken out against the incidents.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Meanwhile, a Muslim Civil Society delegation met Opposition Leader R. Sampanthan today and briefed him on the threats faced by the Muslim community in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations (UN) has urged the Government to act against those inciting hatred.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-srilankan-news","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290","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=1290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}