{"id":77087,"date":"2022-04-20T00:54:12","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T04:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=77087"},"modified":"2022-04-20T19:52:03","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T23:52:03","slug":"president-gotabaya-rajapaksa-says-sri-lankan-citizens-right-to-peacefully-protest-wont-be-hindered-and-urges-all-citizens-to-refrain-from-violence-as-they-prote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=77087","title":{"rendered":"President Gotabaya Rajapaksa  says \u201cSri Lankan citizens\u2019 right to peacefully protest won\u2019t be hindered,\u201d and urges &#8220;all citizens to refrain from violence as they protest.\u201d  while Promising &#8220;impartial and transparent inquiry&#8221;in the Aftermath of the Rambukana Police Shooting Incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa says the right to peacefully protest will not be \u2018hindered\u2019 following an outcry over the first shooting to death of a protestor by police.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSri Lankan citizens\u2019 right to peacefully protest won\u2019t be hindered,\u201d he said in a twitter.com message.<\/p>\n<p>\u201d I urge all citizens to refrain from violence as they protest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said police would carry out an \u201cimpartial &#038; transparent inquiry\u201d in to the shooting which also led to about dozen people being hospitalized.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The government came under fire in parliament from opposition and independent members over fatal shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Ex-Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said the person was a party member.<\/p>\n<p>There have been mass protest calling on President Rajapaksa. The fatal shooting came during a protest over fuel shortages and a price hike in Rambukkana in central Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:Economy Next<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton77087\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D77087&amp;text=President%20Gotabaya%20Rajapaksa%20%20says%20%E2%80%9CSri%20Lankan%20citizens%E2%80%99%20right%20to%20peacefully%20protest%20won%E2%80%99t%20be...%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>Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa says the right to peacefully protest will not be \u2018hindered\u2019 following an outcry over the first shooting to death of a protestor by police. \u201cSri Lankan citizens\u2019 right to peacefully protest won\u2019t be hindered,\u201d he said in a twitter.com message. \u201d I urge all citizens to refrain from violence as &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=77087\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;President Gotabaya Rajapaksa  says \u201cSri Lankan citizens\u2019 right to peacefully protest won\u2019t be hindered,\u201d and urges &#8220;all citizens to refrain from violence as they protest.\u201d  while Promising &#8220;impartial and transparent inquiry&#8221;in the Aftermath of the Rambukana Police Shooting Incident&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/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\/77087"}],"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=77087"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77089,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77087\/revisions\/77089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}