{"id":727,"date":"2017-02-19T05:25:18","date_gmt":"2017-02-19T05:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=727"},"modified":"2017-02-19T05:25:18","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T05:25:18","slug":"tna-split-on-unhrc-giving-sri-lanka-more-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/tna-split-on-unhrc-giving-sri-lanka-more-time\/","title":{"rendered":"TNA split on UNHRC giving Sri Lanka more time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) is split on the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) giving the Government more time to address the accountability issue.<\/p>\n<p>TNA member and former Parliamentarian Suresh Premachandran said that the Illangai Thamil Arasu Katchi, a coalition partner of the TNA, is giving indirect support to the proposal to give the Government time.<\/p>\n<p>He says TNA leader R. Sampanthan and TNA member M.A. Sumanthiran have spoken in support of giving the Government time under some conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Premachandran said that the EPRLF, TELO and PLOTE have opposed giving the Government more time.<\/p>\n<p>Britain is to sponsor a new resolution on Sri Lanka at the UNHRC at its upcoming session in Geneva.<\/p>\n<p>The decision was communicated to the Council at the organisational meeting for the 34th session of the UNHRC held in Geneva.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) is split on the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC)&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":658,"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-727","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\/727","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=727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}