{"id":30795,"date":"2018-10-26T18:14:22","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T12:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=30795"},"modified":"2018-10-26T18:14:22","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T12:44:22","slug":"sri-lanka-declares-state-of-emergency-for-10-days-after-anti-muslim-attacks-in-kandy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sri-lanka-declares-state-of-emergency-for-10-days-after-anti-muslim-attacks-in-kandy\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka declares state of emergency for 10 days after anti-Muslim attacks in Kandy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/lanka-declares-state-of-emergency-following-riots-in-kandy\/article22945590.ece\"><b>Sri Lanka declares state of emergency for 10 days after anti-Muslim attacks in Kandy<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On 6<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> March, 2018, Sri Lanka declared a state of emergency for 10 days, to curb heightening violence targeting the island\u2019s Muslim minority.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>What has happened?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Riots were triggered by the death of a 41-year-old man from the majority Sinhalese community after he was beaten up by a mob, reportedly Muslims, following a road rage incident.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After the incident, anti-Muslim attacks had taken place in Kandy, located in Sri Lanka\u2019s Central Province.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Several mosques, shops and homes were set to fire and destroyed over the last few days<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This had prompted the police to impose a curfew in the town since the afternoon of 6<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> March<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Government Response:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The government decided to declare a state of emergency for 10 days to prevent the spread of communal riots<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka declares state of emergency for 10 days after anti-Muslim attacks in Kandy Context: On 6th March, 2018, Sri Lanka declared a state of emergency for 10 days, to curb heightening violence targeting the island\u2019s Muslim minority. What has happened? Riots were triggered by the death of a 41-year-old man from the majority Sinhalese&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sri-lanka-declares-state-of-emergency-for-10-days-after-anti-muslim-attacks-in-kandy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sri Lanka declares state of emergency for 10 days after anti-Muslim attacks in Kandy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704662238},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}