{"id":28862,"date":"2021-02-24T15:00:02","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T06:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/feb\/24\/sri-lanka-risks-return-to-past-atrocities-activists-warn-rajapaksa"},"modified":"2021-02-24T15:00:02","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T06:00:02","slug":"sri-lanka-at-tipping-point-with-risk-of-return-to-past-atrocities-activists-warn-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=28862","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka at &#8216;tipping point\u2019 with risk of return to past atrocities, activists warn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Civil rights groups say situation \u2018getting worse on a daily basis\u2019 as UN human rights chief expresses alarm over deepening impunity<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka could descend swiftly back into violence and human rights abuses unless decisive international action is taken, the UN high commissioner for human rights and civil rights groups warned.<\/p>\n<p>In a speech to the human rights council on Wednesday, Michelle Bachelet is expected to issue a stark warning that the Sri Lankan government has \u201cclosed the door\u201d on ending impunity for past abuses and is facing a return to state repression of civil society and a militarisation of public institutions.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/feb\/24\/sri-lanka-risks-return-to-past-atrocities-activists-warn-rajapaksa\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Civil rights groups say situation \u2018getting worse on a daily basis\u2019 as UN human rights chief expresses alarm over deepening impunitySri Lanka could descend swiftly back into violence and human rights abuses unless decisive international action is taken,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":461,"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":[59,232,53,1926,61,674,84,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-development","category-governance","category-human-rights","category-michelle-bachelet","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sri-lanka","category-united-nations","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\/28862","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\/461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28864,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28862\/revisions\/28864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}