{"id":1320,"date":"2017-05-25T06:29:43","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T06:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=1320"},"modified":"2017-05-25T06:30:08","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T06:30:08","slug":"sri-lanka-police-blamed-for-inaction-on-attacks-against-muslims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/sri-lanka-police-blamed-for-inaction-on-attacks-against-muslims\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka police blamed for inaction on attacks against Muslims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Sri Lanka&#8217;s police had come under criticism from opposition parliamentarians and right activists for failing to take action against attacks on Muslim places of warship and businesses over the past five weeks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">According to information gathered by human rights lawyer Shiraz Noordeen, there have been 15 targeted attacks on Muslim shops and a mosque since 16 April. So far no one has been arrested regarding any attack.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Rights activist Victor Ivan said Wednesday that there has been a serious lapse in the role of police by failing to take effective measures to enforce the law and make arrests, AP reported.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8220;It seems the rule of law has collapsed,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) leader Anura Dissanayake also criticized the government&#8217;s failure to act fast.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Attacks on Muslim places of worship and businesses are a conspiracy against the government, government Minister Mano Ganesan says. He said it is the responsibility of the government to take stern action against such attempts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Page<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka&#8217;s police had come under criticism from opposition parliamentarians and right activists for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-srilankan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320","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=1320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}