{"id":6697,"date":"2019-06-26T05:35:12","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T05:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=6697"},"modified":"2019-06-26T05:35:12","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T05:35:12","slug":"mangala-slams-apartheid-act-of-banning-muslim-traders-in-wennappuwa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/mangala-slams-apartheid-act-of-banning-muslim-traders-in-wennappuwa\/","title":{"rendered":"Mangala slams \u201capartheid\u201d act of banning Muslim traders in Wennappuwa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Finance Minister Mangala Samaraweera has slammed an apartheid-style decision taken by local authorities to ban Muslim traders in Wennappuwa.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">It was reported that the Wennappuwa Pradeshiya Sabha has temporarily banned Muslim traders from trading at the Dankotuwa sathi pola (market).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cApartheid in Wennappuwa; Muslim traders banned in weekly market by @PresRajapaksa controlled local council,\u201d Samaraweera tweeted in response to the move.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In a letter addressed to residents in Dankotuwa and other relevant authorities, Wennappuwa PS Chairman Susantha Perera has said that the decision was taken after considering a petition submitted to him by residents and traders in Dankotuwa claiming that they did not feel safe trading together with Muslim traders.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Further, he has stated that the decision was taken to guarantee the security of the area.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finance Minister Mangala Samaraweera has slammed an apartheid-style decision taken by local authorities to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6698,"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-6697","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\/6697","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=6697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}