{"id":4465,"date":"2018-11-05T09:35:01","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T09:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=4465"},"modified":"2018-11-05T09:35:01","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T09:35:01","slug":"time-running-out-to-avert-bloodbath-rw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/time-running-out-to-avert-bloodbath-rw\/","title":{"rendered":"Time running out to avert &#8216;bloodbath\u2019: RW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">UNP Leader\u00a0Ranil Wickremesinghe has warned that the time is running out to avert a &#8220;bloodbath&#8221; while voicing hope that Parliament will resolve a damaging constitutional crisis in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In an interview with the AFP, Mr.Wickremesinghe has said that &#8220;desperate people&#8221; could cause chaos.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8220;We will be calling on our people not to resort to violence\u00a0but you don&#8217;t know what arises in a situation like this.\u00a0A few desperate people can start off a bloodbath,\u201d he\u00a0said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Mr.Wickremesinghe said he hoped the showdown could be ended peacefully and expressed optimism that a solution to the crisis would soon be found.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8220;I feel Parliament is going to prevail finally. This can&#8217;t take too long. I would say in a week to 10 days at the most,&#8221; he said, adding the priority was to establish Parliament&#8217;s &#8220;supremacy&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Mr.Wickremesinghe said two smaller parties &#8211; the Marxist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna and the Tamil National Alliance &#8211; were backing his call for the legislature to meet despite obstacles placed by Sirisena.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8220;A majority of Parliament has said all these actions (of the president) are not legitimate and not in accordance with the Constitution,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNP Leader\u00a0Ranil Wickremesinghe has warned that the time is running out to avert a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4466,"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-4465","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\/4465","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=4465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}