{"id":30101,"date":"2014-05-28T03:12:07","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T07:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=30101"},"modified":"2014-05-28T03:12:07","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T07:12:07","slug":"ravana-balayamob-including-bhikkus-storm-religious-affairs-ministry-demanding-dissolution-of-special-religious-police-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=30101","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Ravana Balaya&#8221;Mob Including Bhikkus Storm Religious Affairs Ministry Demanding Dissolution of Special Religious Police Unit."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Ravana Balaya staged a protest inside the Religious Affairs Ministry today against the new police unit launched to investigate incidents related to any religion.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Monks and supporters of the Ravana Balaya organization placed mats inside the Ministry office and carried out a sit-down protest.<\/p>\n<p>The Ravana Balaya spoke to Ministry officials and demanded that the new unit be disbanded.<\/p>\n<p>Officials of the Ministry said that they will raise the concerns of the monks with top Government officials and take a decision based on the Government response.<\/p>\n<p>The new police unit was set up by President Mahinda Rajapaksa following several incidents reported in the recent past, mostly targeting Muslims. <\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:Colombo Gazette<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton30101\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D30101&amp;text=%26%238220%3BRavana%20Balaya%26%238221%3BMob%20Including%20Bhikkus%20Storm%20Religious%20Affairs%20Ministry%20Demanding%20Dissolution%20of...%20&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ravana Balaya staged a protest inside the Religious Affairs Ministry today against the new police unit launched to investigate incidents related to any religion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30102,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30101\/revisions\/30102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}