{"id":24806,"date":"2020-11-16T00:56:23","date_gmt":"2020-11-15T15:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2020\/nov\/15\/fco-resists-release-of-files-on-support-for-uk-mercenaries-in-sri-lanka"},"modified":"2020-11-16T00:56:23","modified_gmt":"2020-11-15T15:56:23","slug":"foreign-office-resists-release-of-files-on-support-for-uk-mercenaries-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24806","title":{"rendered":"Foreign Office resists release of files on support for UK mercenaries in Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Met police investigating allegations of war crimes by private firm Keenie Meenie Services<\/p>\n<p>The Foreign Office is resisting publishing files relating to its diplomatic support for British mercenaries in Sri Lanka in the 1980s, despite the Metropolitan police launching an unprecedented inquiry into potential war crimes by those individuals.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Miller, an investigative journalist, is taking the Foreign Office to an information tribunal over the release of files dating back to 1985 on Keenie Meenie Services (KMS), one of Britain\u2019s first mercenary companies.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2020\/nov\/15\/fco-resists-release-of-files-on-support-for-uk-mercenaries-in-sri-lanka\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Met police investigating allegations of war crimes by private firm Keenie Meenie ServicesThe Foreign Office is resisting publishing files relating to its diplomatic support for British mercenaries in Sri Lanka in the 1980s, despite the Metropolitan pol&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"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":[319,4,61,674,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-policy","category-politics","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sri-lanka","category-uk-news","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\/24806","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\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24807,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24806\/revisions\/24807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}