{"id":20587,"date":"2018-10-31T22:23:12","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T22:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=20587"},"modified":"2018-10-31T22:23:12","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T22:23:12","slug":"is-sri-lanka-on-the-path-to-dictatorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=20587","title":{"rendered":"Is Sri Lanka on the path to dictatorship?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" readability=\"77.8534571723\">\n<p>Sri Lanka has plunged into a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/10\/happening-sri-lanka-questions-answered-181030194403131.html\">bitter power struggle<\/a> after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/10\/sri-lanka-president-sacks-prime-minister-appoints-rajapaksa-181026174208405.html\">surprise sacking<\/a>\u00a0of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe by President Maithripala Sirisena.<\/p>\n<p>Wickremesinghe&#8217;s\u00a0replacement, Mahinda Rajapaksa, is a former president appointed by his successor and ex-rival for the top job.<\/p>\n<p>The political crisis in Sri Lanka is threatening to spiral out of control and undermine stability in South East Asia.<\/p>\n<p>One person was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/10\/sri-lanka-crisis-deepens-speaker-recognises-sacked-pm-181028091101951.html\">killed<\/a> and two others wounded when the bodyguard of a deposed minister opened fire into a crowd of protesters.<\/p>\n<p>Parliament has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/10\/sri-lanka-warnings-bloodbath-political-tensions-rise-181029112125434.html\">warned<\/a> of a &#8220;bloodbath&#8221; if the constitutional crisis isn&#8217;t solved.<\/p>\n<p>So, is it a constitutional coup?<\/p>\n<p>And what are the implications both at home and in the region?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter:<\/strong> Imran Khan<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dilanthe Withanage &#8211; former government adviser in Sri Lanka<\/p>\n<p>Alan Keenan &#8211; Sri Lanka project director at International Crisis Group<\/p>\n<p>Jehan Perera &#8211; executive director of the National Peace Council of Sri Lanka<\/p>\n<p><span>Source:<\/span>\u00a0<span>Al Jazeera News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka has plunged into a bitter power struggle after the surprise sacking\u00a0of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe by President Maithripala Sirisena. Wickremesinghe&#8217;s\u00a0replacement, Mahinda Rajapaksa, is a former president appointed by his successor and ex-rival for the top job. The political crisis in Sri Lanka is threatening to spiral out of control and undermine stability in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":20588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}