{"id":46514,"date":"2022-07-18T01:58:29","date_gmt":"2022-07-17T16:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/17\/britain-should-lead-international-aid-effort-for-sri-lanka"},"modified":"2022-07-18T01:58:29","modified_gmt":"2022-07-17T16:58:29","slug":"britain-should-lead-international-aid-effort-for-sri-lanka-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46514","title":{"rendered":"Britain should lead international aid effort for Sri Lanka | Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Britain must do more to help a fellow Commonwealth country in desperate need, says <strong>Peter Heap<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The UK government\u2019s response to the situation in Sri Lanka is shameful. People there are starving, and dying for lack of medicines; they cannot get to work or move about for lack of petrol; electric power is scarce.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of how they got to this situation (misrule by the Rajapaksas, and the legacy of the country having been ripped apart by a 30-year violent insurrection), Britain should take the lead in providing humanitarian help to a fellow Commonwealth country in desperate need (not even counting that we ruled them for 150 years without their consent, for which we owe them something back).<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/17\/britain-should-lead-international-aid-effort-for-sri-lanka\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain must do more to help a fellow Commonwealth country in desperate need, says Peter HeapThe UK government\u2019s response to the situation in Sri Lanka is shameful. People there are starving, and dying for lack of medicines; they cannot get to work or &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"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":[319,61,674,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-policy","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sri-lanka","category-uk-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46514","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\/269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46515,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46514\/revisions\/46515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}