{"id":115063,"date":"2013-11-16T16:00:37","date_gmt":"2013-11-16T10:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=115063"},"modified":"2013-11-24T16:52:13","modified_gmt":"2013-11-24T11:22:13","slug":"video-tamils-were-harassed-in-front-of-international-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/video-tamils-were-harassed-in-front-of-international-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Tamils Were Harassed In Front Of International Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The video below which is posted by Sri Kugan shows, Tamils were harassed, attacked and blocked their freedom of movement in front of International Community in Jaffna.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Jaffna-Tamil.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-115065\" alt=\"Jaffna Tamil\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Jaffna-Tamil-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Jaffna-Tamil-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Jaffna-Tamil-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Earlier this week, families from Mannar, Vavuniya, Mullaitivu, Kilinochchi and Jaffna were travelling to the capital Colombo to attend the Samagi Human Rights Festival, also known as the alternate Peoples Forum to stress Commonwealth Values, were also stopped by\u00a0Military personnel\u00a0and turned the families back to their home districts.<\/p>\n<p>The Government previously stopped protesters from entering the capital during this year\u2019s UN Human Rights Council session in March, when families of the disappeared attempted to reach Colombo in order to hand over a petition to the UN Headquarters in Colombo.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mtKHpL5T3e8?rel=0;showinfo\" height=\"357\" width=\"634\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":115065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,2375,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-stories","category-video"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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