{"id":5524,"date":"2019-02-20T08:43:24","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T08:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=5524"},"modified":"2019-02-20T08:43:24","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T08:43:24","slug":"why-the-prevention-of-terrorism-act-is-needed-in-a-country-where-terrorism-is-no-more-protest-in-killinochhci-reporter-for-global-tamil-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/why-the-prevention-of-terrorism-act-is-needed-in-a-country-where-terrorism-is-no-more-protest-in-killinochhci-reporter-for-global-tamil-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the Prevention of Terrorism Act is needed in a country where terrorism is no more? -Protest in Killinochhci- Reporter for Global Tamil News-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Protest asking why does the government, which announced that terrorism is no more in the country, still keep the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) in practice has been staged in Killinochchi today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">People from Killinochchi, Jaffna, Mullaitivu and Vavuniya staged protest against both the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) and the Counter Terrorism Act (CTR) at Killinochchi.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">This protest commenced at today (20\/02) morning at 10.30 AM. This protest staged against the prevailing Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) and the Counter Terrorism Act (CTR) which is going to be implemented.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">This protest has been organized by the people in Killinochchi. The rally which commenced at the Old Killinochchi District Secretariat reached Depot through A9 highway.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Following are the phrases read in the placards carried by the protestors;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cGovernment! Don\u2019t infringe the Women\u2019s rights through CTA\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0\u00a0\u201cDon\u2019t portrait the people of this country as terrorists\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cLiberation of the women is the liberation of this country\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cPTA is the trap which targets the minorities\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cRepresentatives of the people! you ask the people about PTA and CTA\u201d<\/p>\n<div data-sliderid=\"68884\" id=\"penci-post-gallery__68884\" class=\"penci-post-gallery-container justified column-3\" data-height=\"150\" data-margin=\"3\"><a class=\"penci-gallery-ite item-gallery-justified\" href=\"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/PTA2.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/PTA2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"PTA2\"><\/a><a class=\"penci-gallery-ite item-gallery-justified\" href=\"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/PTA3.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/PTA3.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"PTA3\"><\/a><a class=\"penci-gallery-ite item-gallery-justified\" href=\"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/PTA4.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/PTA4.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"PTA4\"><\/a><a class=\"penci-gallery-ite item-gallery-justified\" href=\"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/PTA5.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/PTA5.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"PTA5\"><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protest asking why does the government, which announced that terrorism is no more in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5529,"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-5524","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\/5524","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=5524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}