{"id":44311,"date":"2022-05-09T20:14:22","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T11:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/09\/sri-lanka-ruling-party-supporters-storm-protest-site-in-colombo"},"modified":"2022-05-09T22:57:37","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T13:57:37","slug":"sri-lankas-pm-resigns-after-weeks-of-protests-over-economic-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44311","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka\u2019s PM resigns after weeks of protests over economic crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are imposing nationwide curfew following violence at protest site in Colombo<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s prime minister, Mahinda Rajapaksa, has resigned after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/06\/sri-lankan-president-calls-second-state-of-emergency-in-five-weeks\">months of protests<\/a> over the country\u2019s deepening economic crisis, as once-peaceful protests turned turned violent and at least five people were killed in clashes.<\/p>\n<p>Turmoil began to engulf the country on Monday following violence at a major protest site in Colombo, where pro-government supporters attacked demonstrators and police responded with teargas and water cannon.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/09\/sri-lanka-ruling-party-supporters-storm-protest-site-in-colombo\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police are imposing nationwide curfew following violence at protest site in ColomboSri Lanka\u2019s prime minister, Mahinda Rajapaksa, has resigned after months of protests over the country\u2019s deepening economic crisis, as once-peaceful protests turned turne&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2228,"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":[61,674,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sri-lanka","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\/44311","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\/2228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44311"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44395,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44311\/revisions\/44395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}