{"id":7576,"date":"2019-11-21T05:19:43","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T05:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=7576"},"modified":"2019-11-21T05:19:43","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T05:19:43","slug":"india-urged-to-ensure-sri-lanka-secures-rights-of-tamils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/india-urged-to-ensure-sri-lanka-secures-rights-of-tamils\/","title":{"rendered":"India urged to ensure Sri Lanka secures rights of Tamils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">The Indian Central Government has been urged to ensure the new Sri Lankan Government secures the rights of the Tamils.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">Tamil Maanila Congress president G.K. Vasan has urged the Central Government to hold talks with newly elected Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to secure the rights of Tamils in the island nation, The Hindu newspaper reported.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">In a statement, Vasan said Mr. Rajapaksa should take steps to guarantee the rights of Tamils.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">\u201cThe growth and security of Tamils, Christians and Muslims should be taken into account alongside the development and growth of the Sinhalese population,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">Just like India, Sri Lanka should take measures to ensure peace and harmony between followers of different religions as well as the majority and minority communities, he said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Central Government has been urged to ensure the new Sri Lankan Government&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7577,"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-7576","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\/7576","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=7576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}