{"id":49026,"date":"2016-10-17T08:58:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T12:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=49026"},"modified":"2016-10-17T09:05:46","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T13:05:46","slug":"police-fire-tear-gas-in-galkanda-at-negombo-coastal-fisherfolk-protesting-against-massive-sandmining-for-colombo-port-city-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=49026","title":{"rendered":"Police Fire Tear Gas in Galkanda at Negombo Coastal Fisherfolk Protesting Against Massive Sandmining for Colombo Port City Construction."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Police have fired tear gas at fishermen congregating at the Galkanda crossing on the Negombo-Puttalam railroad.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The fishermen have been protesting there since morning.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>They allege that dredging and sand mining from the seas around the areas of Negombo, Doowa, Palagadura and Palliyawatte is damaging their livelihoods.<\/p>\n<p>The fishermen say vast amounts of sand is being transported to be used at the Colombo port city.<\/p>\n<p>They had also protested at the Negombo Townhall, before being dispersed by Police. <\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:Daily News<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton49026\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D49026&amp;text=Police%20Fire%20Tear%20Gas%20in%20Galkanda%20at%20Negombo%20Coastal%20Fisherfolk%20Protesting%20Against%20Massive%20Sandmining%20for...%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>Police have fired tear gas at fishermen congregating at the Galkanda crossing on the Negombo-Puttalam railroad. The fishermen have been protesting there since morning.<\/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\/49026"}],"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=49026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49027,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49026\/revisions\/49027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}