{"id":112057,"date":"2022-05-11T07:30:26","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T11:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=112057"},"modified":"2022-05-11T08:09:40","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T12:09:40","slug":"bbc-sri-lanka-protests-leaders-under-pressure-as-anger-at-economic-crisis-boils-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=112057","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) Sri Lanka protests: Leaders under pressure as anger at economic crisis boils over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Security forces are out in force across Sri Lanka with orders to shoot looters on sight amid continuing protests at the government&#8217;s handling of a devastating economic crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Despite a nationwide curfew, there was a second night of arson attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Shops near Colombo were torched, as well as a resort owned by the son of ex-Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa.<\/p>\n<p>The ex-PM is holed up in a naval base after resigning when public fury erupted over fuel and food shortages.<\/p>\n<p>At least nine people have been killed and about 200 injured in unrest since Monday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-61403510\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">survival births desperation&#8230;is Sri Lanka the canary in the coal mine &#x2753;<\/p>\n<p>BBC News &#8211; Sri Lanka protests: Leaders under pressure as anger at economic crisis boils over<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0HZWoduudj\">https:\/\/t.co\/0HZWoduudj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Michael Thomas (@michaelinpooler) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/michaelinpooler\/status\/1524350588905009153?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 11, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Security forces are out in force across Sri Lanka with orders to shoot looters on sight amid continuing protests at the government&#8217;s handling of a devastating economic crisis. Despite a nationwide curfew, there was a second night of arson attacks.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=112057\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151,487,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-in-general","category-sri-lanka","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112057"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112060,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112057\/revisions\/112060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}