{"id":59162,"date":"2018-05-09T16:15:36","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T21:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=59162"},"modified":"2018-05-09T16:15:36","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T21:15:36","slug":"namal-rajapaksa-wants-action-taken-against-railway-employee-allegedly-responsible-for-racist-and-sexual-harassment-of-tamil-woman-on-colombo-jaffna-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=59162","title":{"rendered":"Namal Rajapaksa wants Action Taken Against Railway Employee Allegedly responsible for   racist and Sexual Harassment of Tamil Woman on Colombo-Jaffna Train."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Joint Opposition MP Namal Rajapaksa yesterday condemned the alleged harassment of a Tamil woman on a Colombo-Jaffna train by a train attendant on Tuesday. He called for necessary action.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The incident which had been recorded by a person on the train was widely circulated in social media.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p> The individual who had recorded the video tweeted: &#8220;Train attendant on Colombo-Jaffna train I was on today, sexually and verbally harassed a Tamil woman. He didn\u2019t stop when I stepped in but got more abusive + racist (anti-Tamil) towards me and the woman &#038; tried to hit me. No seniors to complain to on the train.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rajapaksa had condemned the incident by tweeting &#8220;Harassment is harassment, as racism is racism \u2013 both have no place in Srilanka. Hoping that authorities take necessary action immediately to ensure this doesn\u2019t happen to anyone again.<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nCourtesy:The Island<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton59162\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D59162&amp;text=Namal%20Rajapaksa%20wants%20Action%20Taken%20Against%20Railway%20Employee%20Allegedly%20responsible%20for%20%20%20racist%20and%20Sexual...%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>Joint Opposition MP Namal Rajapaksa yesterday condemned the alleged harassment of a Tamil woman on a Colombo-Jaffna train by a train attendant on Tuesday. He called for necessary action. The incident which had been recorded by a person on the train was widely circulated in social media.<\/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\/59162"}],"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=59162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59163,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59162\/revisions\/59163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}