{"id":2084,"date":"2017-11-21T01:59:39","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T01:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=2084"},"modified":"2017-11-21T01:59:39","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T01:59:39","slug":"tna-asserts-it-does-not-want-violence-and-instead-wants-a-political-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/tna-asserts-it-does-not-want-violence-and-instead-wants-a-political-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"TNA asserts it does not want violence and instead wants a political solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Tamil National Alliance (TNA) leader R Sampanthan told Parliament today that the TNA does not want the LTTE to return.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He said the TNA also does not want violence and instead wants a political solution for the Tamils within a united Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cThat is something we publicly state. So why don\u2019t we try to make harmony with people,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Sampanthan also called for a meeting with the Minister of Justice to discuss the political prisoner issue saying it must be urgently addressed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He said that the political prisoners have been arrested under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA), a law which the Government promised to repeal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Sampanthan questioned the justification to continue keeping those arrested under the PTA behind bars when the Government has admitted that the PTA must be repealed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tamil National Alliance (TNA) leader R Sampanthan told Parliament today that the TNA does&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2085,"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-2084","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\/2084","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=2084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}