{"id":9156,"date":"2020-07-08T04:40:18","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T04:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=9156"},"modified":"2020-07-08T04:40:18","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T04:40:18","slug":"digamadulla-already-a-hotspot-for-election-violence-caffe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/digamadulla-already-a-hotspot-for-election-violence-caffe\/","title":{"rendered":"Digamadulla already a hotspot for election violence \u2013 CaFFE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Sri Lanka election monitor, Campaign for Free and Fair Elections (CaFFE) warned that certain parts of Digamadulla district in the Eastern Province could be a hotspot for election violence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">CaFFE Executive Director Manas Makeen said that they have identified three hotspots in the district. They are Pottuvil, Sainthamaruthu and Akkaraipattu.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8220;There is also a lot of hate speech and some violence. The first incident of election violence was reported in Akkaraipattu. A vehicle carrying SJB candidate Thawam was attacked with stones there,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Makeen added that police must put extra security in these areas to minimize violence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Page<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka election monitor, Campaign for Free and Fair Elections (CaFFE) warned that certain&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9157,"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-9156","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\/9156","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=9156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}