{"id":14429,"date":"2020-02-15T01:02:05","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T16:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/14\/us-sanctions-sri-lanka-army-chief-shavendra-silva"},"modified":"2020-02-15T01:02:05","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T16:02:05","slug":"us-imposes-sanctions-on-sri-lankan-army-chief-over-war-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=14429","title":{"rendered":"US imposes sanctions on Sri Lankan army chief over war crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li> Shavendra Silva blacklisted for \u2018gross human rights violations\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Up to 70,000 Tamils killed during final stages of civil war<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The US has imposed sanctions on Sri Lanka\u2019s chief of army staff, Lt Gen Shavendra Silva, for war crimes committed at final stages of the conflict against the Tamil Tigers in 2009, when up to 70,000 Tamil civilians were killed.<\/p>\n<p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2020\/feb\/14\/donald-trump-tweeting-attorney-general-william-barr-roger-stone-live-updates\">Trump responds to Barr: I have &#8216;legal right&#8217; to intervene in criminal cases \u2013 live<\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/14\/us-sanctions-sri-lanka-army-chief-shavendra-silva\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Shavendra Silva blacklisted for \u2018gross human rights violations\u2019Up to 70,000 Tamils killed during final stages of civil warThe US has imposed sanctions on Sri Lanka\u2019s chief of army staff, Lt Gen Shavendra Silva, for war crimes committed at final stages&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,674,1116,45,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sri-lanka","category-tamil-tigers","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14430,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14429\/revisions\/14430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}