{"id":4585,"date":"2018-11-20T06:22:41","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T06:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=4585"},"modified":"2018-11-20T06:22:41","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T06:22:41","slug":"police-disperse-bodu-bala-senas-demonstration-at-presidential-secretariat-with-tear-gas-and-water-cannon-but-maithripala-sirisena-apologizes-to-bhikkus-saying-he-was-not-aware-of-the-bbs-prot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/police-disperse-bodu-bala-senas-demonstration-at-presidential-secretariat-with-tear-gas-and-water-cannon-but-maithripala-sirisena-apologizes-to-bhikkus-saying-he-was-not-aware-of-the-bbs-prot\/","title":{"rendered":"Police disperse Bodu Bala Sena\u2019s Demonstration at Presidential Secretariat with tear gas and water cannon but Maithripala Sirisena apologizes to Bhikkus saying he was not aware of the BBS Protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">President Maithripala Sirisena expressed regret over the Police using tear gas and water cannons on Bidu Bala Sena monks protesting in front of the Presidential Secretariat, this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Issuing a media statement a short while ago, the President\u2019s Media Division said the President has ordered an investigation into the incident.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The release also said President Maithripala Sirisena held a \u201ccordial discussion\u201d with the Bodu Bala Sena monks over Ganansara Thera\u2019s issue.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The President had told them he was not aware that the Buddhist monks were staging a protest near the Presidential Secretariat.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Bodu Bala Sena monks protested near the Presidential Secretariat demanding Presidential pardon for its General Secretary Galagoaaththe Gnanasara Thera. The Police<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Gnanasara Thera is currently serving a 06-year Rigorous Imprisonment for contempt of court.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Asian Mirror<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Maithripala Sirisena expressed regret over the Police using tear gas and water cannons&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4586,"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-4585","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\/4585","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=4585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}