{"id":17109,"date":"2020-04-12T17:00:38","date_gmt":"2020-04-12T08:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/apr\/12\/its-a-very-worrying-time-sri-lankas-recovery-interrupted-by-coronavirus"},"modified":"2020-04-12T17:00:38","modified_gmt":"2020-04-12T08:00:38","slug":"its-a-very-worrying-time-sri-lankas-recovery-interrupted-by-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17109","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It&#8217;s a very worrying time&#8217;: Sri Lanka&#8217;s recovery interrupted by coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the anniversary of the bombs that shook the country looms, survivors working to build harmony face multiple challenges<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A year on from the Easter bombs that killed more than 250 people, Sri Lanka is now under pandemic lockdown and facing rising pressure.<\/p>\n<p>President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, whose decision to include individuals accused of atrocities during the country\u2019s 25-year civil war among his political appointments has been a source of international opprobrium, is now under fire over the country\u2019s repressive, militarised response to Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/apr\/12\/its-a-very-worrying-time-sri-lankas-recovery-interrupted-by-coronavirus\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the anniversary of the bombs that shook the country looms, survivors working to build harmony face multiple challengesCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA year on from the Easter bombs that killed more than 250 people, Sri L&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":414,"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":[1069,59,914,61,674,675,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-global-development","category-infectious-diseases","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sri-lanka","category-sri-lanka-attacks","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17109","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\/414"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17110,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17109\/revisions\/17110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}