{"id":46382,"date":"2022-07-14T11:20:17","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T02:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/jul\/14\/sri-lanka-protesters-enter-prime-ministerial-compound-after-president-flees-video"},"modified":"2022-07-14T11:20:17","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T02:20:17","slug":"sri-lanka-protesters-enter-prime-ministerial-compound-after-president-flees-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46382","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka protesters enter prime ministerial compound after president flees \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Protests erupted in&nbsp;Sri Lanka&nbsp;on Wednesday after the president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, fled to the Maldives on a military jet \u2013 but neither he nor the prime minster officially resigned, throwing the country into political chaos. After Gotabaya\u2019s clandestine departure, a Sri Lankan official said that the prime minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, had been appointed by Rajapaksa to be acting president. Protesters later stormed the prime ministerial compound as the political crisis continues<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/13\/sri-lanka-protesters-unrest-president-gatabaya-rajapaksa-flees-quit-economy-unrest\">Sri Lanka: furious protesters breach PM\u2019s offices after president flees<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/13\/this-is-a-huge-moment-sri-lankans-vow-to-continue-protests-until-demands-are-met\">\u2018This is a huge moment\u2019: Sri Lankans vow to continue protests until demands are met<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/13\/sri-lanka-protesters-unrest-president-gatabaya-rajapaksa-flees-quit-economy-unrest\">Sri Lanka: PM orders military to do \u2018whatever it takes\u2019 to maintain order<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/jul\/14\/sri-lanka-protesters-enter-prime-ministerial-compound-after-president-flees-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protests erupted in&nbsp;Sri Lanka&nbsp;on Wednesday after the president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, fled to the Maldives on a military jet \u2013 but neither he nor the prime minster officially resigned, throwing the country into political chaos. After Gotabaya\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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":[674],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/46382","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46383,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46382\/revisions\/46383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}