{"id":9128,"date":"2020-07-06T06:47:23","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T06:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=9128"},"modified":"2020-07-06T06:47:23","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T06:47:23","slug":"digamadulla-expected-to-be-a-hot-spot-during-campaigning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/digamadulla-expected-to-be-a-hot-spot-during-campaigning\/","title":{"rendered":"Digamadulla expected to be a \u2018hot spot\u2019 during campaigning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">At least three towns in Digamadulla are expected to be \u2018hot spots\u2019 during campaigning for the 5th August Parliamentary election, election observers said today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Campaign for Free and Fair Elections (CaFFE) said that minor incidents of violence have already been reported from the area.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">CaFFE Executive Director Manas Makeen said that Pottuvil, Akkaraipattu and Sainthamaruthu have been identified as sensitive areas in Digamadulla.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He said that hate speech targeting the election has seen a rise in these areas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The first election related attack on property was reported from Akkaraipattu, CaFFE said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">CaFFE called for increased Police protection in these areas to ensure a peaceful environment prevails.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least three towns in Digamadulla are expected to be \u2018hot spots\u2019 during campaigning&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9129,"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-9128","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\/9128","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=9128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}