{"id":44369,"date":"2022-05-10T17:22:20","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T08:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/may\/10\/sri-lanka-prime-minister-resigns-amid-violent-protests-video-report"},"modified":"2022-05-10T17:22:20","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T08:22:20","slug":"sri-lanka-protesters-set-ministers-homes-on-fire-as-economic-crisis-deepens-video-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44369","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka: protesters set ministers&#8217; homes on fire as economic crisis deepens \u2013 video report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s prime minister, Mahinda Rajapaksa, has resigned after five people were killed in violent protests amid an unprecedented economic crisis. Rajapaksa had to be rescued in a pre-dawn operation by the military after thousands of anti-government protesters stormed his official residence in Colombo overnight. Dozens of homes of Rajapaksa loyalists were torched elsewhere in the curfew-bound country, which has been under a state of emergency since Friday<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/10\/troops-rescue-outgoing-sri-lanka-pm-as-houses-torched-in-deadly-night-of-unrest\">Troops rescue outgoing Sri Lanka PM as houses torched in deadly night of unrest<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/may\/10\/sri-lanka-prime-minister-resigns-amid-violent-protests-video-report\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s prime minister, Mahinda Rajapaksa, has resigned after five people were killed in violent protests amid an unprecedented economic crisis. Rajapaksa had to be rescued in a pre-dawn operation by the military after thousands of anti-government &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1053,"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":[80,674],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-protest","category-sri-lanka"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44369","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\/1053"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44370,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44369\/revisions\/44370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}