{"id":230367,"date":"2010-01-26T06:46:33","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T11:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalvoicesonline.org\/?p=119769"},"modified":"2010-01-26T06:46:33","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T11:46:33","slug":"sri-lanka-election-irregularities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/230367","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka: Election Irregularities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Indrajit Samarajiva<\/em> at <em><a href=\"http:\/\/indi.ca\/\">Indi.ca<\/a><\/em> comments that with the presence of election monitors and somewhat independent election commission, rigging elections in Sri Lanka is tough. However: &#8220;the main method of influencing elections is intimidation, and that\u2019s what\u2019s going on.&#8221;  Read his reports on <a href=\"http:\/\/indi.ca\/2010\/01\/report-on-explosions-in-jaffna\/\">explosions in Jaffna<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/indi.ca\/2010\/01\/major-noise-in-batticaloa\/\">irregularities in Batticaloa.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indrajit Samarajiva at Indi.ca comments that with the presence of election monitors and somewhat independent election commission, rigging elections in Sri Lanka is tough. However: &#8220;the main method of influencing elections is intimidation, and that\u2019s what\u2019s going on.&#8221; Read his reports on explosions in Jaffna and irregularities in Batticaloa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4393,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}