{"id":8170,"date":"2023-02-27T05:19:04","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T05:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/?p=8170"},"modified":"2023-02-27T05:28:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T05:28:00","slug":"water-and-tear-gas-attack-on-npp-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/water-and-tear-gas-attack-on-npp-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"Water and tear gas attack on NPP protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8175\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/water.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/water.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/water-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/water-600x314.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>The anti-riot police carried out a water and tear gas attack on the protest march the National People\u2019s Power (NPP) started today (26th) afternoon, protesting against the increase in electricity bill, increase in taxes, non-holding of elections.<br \/>\nThe protestors and the anti-riot police met face to face near Ibbanwala Junction near Town Hall, where the leaders of the NPP continuously told the police to allow them to move forward. There was a heated exchange of views between the two sides, and soon after, the police launched a water and tear gas attack.<br \/>\nHowever, the protestors reunited and held a rally at Lipton Circus in Colombo.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The anti-riot police carried out a water and tear gas attack on the protest march the National People\u2019s Power (NPP) started today (26th) afternoon, protesting against the increase in electricity bill, increase in taxes, non-holding of elections. The protestors and the anti-riot police met face to face near Ibbanwala Junction near Town Hall, where the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8170","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry","8":"gs-1","9":"gs-odd","10":"gs-even","11":"gs-featured-content-entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8170"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8178,"href":"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8170\/revisions\/8178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}