{"id":30908,"date":"2018-10-27T11:23:42","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T05:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=30908"},"modified":"2018-10-27T11:23:42","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T05:53:42","slug":"anti-muslim-violence-in-ampara-sparks-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/anti-muslim-violence-in-ampara-sparks-concern\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Muslim violence in Ampara sparks concern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/anti-muslim-violence-in-ampara-sparks-concern\/article22882207.ece\"><b>Anti-Muslim violence in Ampara sparks concern<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sri Lanka\u2019s Leader of Opposition R. Sampanthan, condemned the <\/span><b>recent anti-Muslim attacks in the Ampara district of Eastern Province and sought \u201cstern action\u201d against the culprits.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Why is it in news?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His comments come in the wake of an <\/span><b>attack on a mosque and several Muslim-run shops late in Ampara town.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At least <\/span><b>five persons were injured<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the attack.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Police have since deployed <\/span><b>additional security in the area.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The incident is said to have been triggered by a <\/span><b>Sinhalese mob and has sparked concern among many Sri Lankans, given that the island has witnessed a spate of anti-Muslim attacks over the last few years.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anti-Muslim violence in Ampara sparks concern Context: Sri Lanka\u2019s Leader of Opposition R. Sampanthan, condemned the recent anti-Muslim attacks in the Ampara district of Eastern Province and sought \u201cstern action\u201d against the culprits. Why is it in news? His comments come in the wake of an attack on a mosque and several Muslim-run shops late&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/anti-muslim-violence-in-ampara-sparks-concern\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Anti-Muslim violence in Ampara sparks concern<\/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-30908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704895798},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30908","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=30908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}